Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936 or 9), born in New York City and educated at the Boston Latin School, studied art in Paris and Italy from 1867 to 1881. Some of his most important paintings were "The Evolution of Civilization" on the dome of the Library of Congress, "The Power of the Law" panel in the New York Court of Appeals, and "Pittsburgh Offering Her Steel and Iron to the Commerce of the World" on the lunette, Bank of Pittsburgh. He co-edited with his wife, Evangeline, an edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1902). He exhibited genre pictures, portraits, and decorations. Blashfield was elected a member of the National Academy of Arts in 1888.
From the description of Certificate of honorable service, Company C, 120th Infantry, United States Army. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122646955
