Frank Henry Shapleigh
 Frank Shapleigh is best known for his well-executed White Montain, New Hampshire landscapes that include the major tourist attractions as well as places that had special and personal meaning for him. He painted Mount Washington and other well-known mountains from dozens of different locations and because he documented all of this on the backs of the canvasses, his paintings provide invaluable records.
He was born in Boston in 1842 and lived there through adolescence where he studied at the Lowell Institute of Drawing. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the union Army and served from 1862-63. he studied in Paris with Emile Lambinet from 1866-69 and then returned to Boston to establish his studio which he shared with John Appleton Brown. He maintained this studio until his death in 1906. He spent his summers in the White Mountains and built a home studio in Jakcson. He was a close friend to John J. Enneking and Benjamin Champney and often painted with them en plein aire on location.
Shapeleigh also painted in Florida, California and Europe. From 1877 to 1894 he was artist-in-residence at the Crawford House in St. Augustine Floriday. He is however, one of the most sought after and popular turn of the century White Mountain Painters.
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