John Greenleaf Cloudman

Cloudman began his career as a carpenter and sign painter.

In 1847 he sailed to Paris, France, to study art there for one year.

[2] Cloudman was a protegee of landscape artist Charles Codman.

[3] He was the only one of Codman's students to achieve lasting fame as a painter.

[5] Paintings by Cloudman are held in the core collection of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine,[6][7] Maine Historical Society, Maine State Museum and the Bangor Public Library collection.