Francis Coates Jones

American (1857-1932)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1857, painter Francis Coates Jones studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Henri Lehmann and at the Academie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and William Adolphe Bouguereau. Jones returned to the States in 1884, where he taught at the National Academy of Design in New York.
 
Jones was a member of and participated in exhibitions at the American Watercolor Society, National Academy of Design, Brooklyn Art Club, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Salmagundi Club, and Society of American Artists. Jones also exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 and Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915.

Jones’s work is held in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts, Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York and at the Smithsonian Institute of American Art in Washington, D.C.