Benjamin Eggleston
Lyme Art Colony
(1867–1937) In Lyme: 1919-1925
Benjamin Eggleston (1867-1937) was a portrait and landscape painter. He was born in Belvidere, Minnesota in 1867. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts with Douglas Volk around 1884 and in Paris from 1894-95. In the early 1880s he taught in Red Wing, Minnesota. He was an illustrator for the Minneapolis tribune from 1886-87. When he returned from France he concentrated on landscape painting.

From the 1900s to the 1920s he spent his summers in Old Lyme and was part of the art colony there. He began spending half of his time in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

He was a member of the Brooklyn Watercolor Club, the Salmagundi Club, 1903, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Allied Artists of America, Brooklyn Painters and Sculptors, American Federation of Arts, Scandinavian American Artists, Pittsfield Art League, and the Brooklyn Art Club (president, 1903-27).

He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association, 1891, the National Academy of Design, 1890-95, 1897-1900, Art Institute of Chicago, 1890, Paris Salon, 1896, Boston Art Club, 1898, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1904-06.