BRECKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry, Amer ican artist: b. Leesburg, Va., 6 Oct. 1870. Studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy and with Bougereau, Ferrier and Doucet in Paris. Instructor in drawing and painting in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, since 1894. Awarded European scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy; first class Toppan prize, Pennsylvania Academy; medal, Atlanta Exposition, 1895; honorable mention, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900; medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901; Corcoran prize, Society of Washington Artists, 1903; gold medal, Art Club of Philadelphia, 1907; first prize, Washington Water Color Club, 1908; silver medal, International Exposition, Buenos Aires, S. A., 1910; gold medal, Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Member of the jury of selection for the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901; mem ber of the New York Water Color Club; the Philadelphia Water Color Club; the fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Philadelphia Sketch Club; associate of the National Academy of Design; member of the jury of selection, United States section, de partment of art, and of the international jury of awards, Universal Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904; member of the municipal art jury of Philadelphia; member of the advisory com mittee for Pennsylvania and the Southern States, and of the jury of selection, department of art, Panama-Pacific International Exposi tion, San Francisco, 1915. . Represented in the
Saint Louis Club, Saint Louis; University of Virginia; Art Club of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania; Memorial Hall, Hartford, Conn.; University Club of Indianapolis; Jeffer son Medical College, College of Physicians, College of Pharmacy, Historical Society, Penn sylvania Hospital, Philosophical Society and in the city hall, Philadelphia; courthouse, Read ing, Pa.; State Normal School, West Chester, Pa., and in collections in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc.