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Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings.
By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He studied paintings in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, especially the works of Jean BaptisteSiméonChardin (1699-1779).
He attended student-organized life classes at the Boston Art Club and may have been present at the lectures on anatomy given in Boston by the artist William Rimmer (1816-1879) in 1874-1875.
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He worked briefly in Albany, New York, during 1875-1876 and in July 1876 went to Europe. Dewing entered the Académie Julian, where the course of instruction, under Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911), centered on anatomical drawing and modeling.
While in Paris, Dewing became acquainted