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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2003;5:364.

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WILLIAM McGregor Paxton was born in Baltimore, Md, in 1869, but grew up in Boston, Mass, where he studied painting under the Impressionist painter Dennis Miller Bunker at the Cowles Art School. In 1889 at the age of 20, Paxton traveled to Paris to study at the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts and was eventually accepted in the atelier of the great French academic and orientialist painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme. In Gérôme's studio, Paxton mastered both pictorial composition and draftsmanship, which became the hallmarks of his personal style. In Paris, Paxton also discovered the paintings of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres and successfully assimilated his tight execution and harmonious tonal relationships in his own work. His exquisite painting The One in Yellow (Private Collection), showing a young woman leaning against a large mirror, is a modern homage to Ingres's masterpiece Comtesse d'Haussonville (The Frick Collection). Upon his return from Paris in 1893, Paxton fell . . . [Full Text of this Article]