Jean Leon Gerome-Ferris set out to paint the founding moments of his own country as if a witness had been standing in the room, and that storytelling instinct is what carries his work into counted cross stitch so well.
He was an American painter, born in 1863 and died in 1930, and he gave much of his working life to a single enormous idea. The Pageant of a Nation ran to seventy-eight scenes from American history, the largest series of its kind ever completed by one artist. He worked in history painting and in Orientalism, but it is those American scenes that kept his name alive, reproduced for generations in schoolbooks and on calendars long after most people had forgotten who painted them.
Gerome-Ferris studied under William Adolphe Bouguereau, and he was influenced by Jean-Leon Gerome, the French history painter he was named for.
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