Born November 13, 1864 and raised in Galion, Ohio, Everett Lloyd Bryant showed considerable talent at an early age. Formal study however, was not begun until the age of twenty-eight, when he traveled to London to study under Herbert Herkomer and Monat Loudan, and later in Paris under M. Blanc and Thomas Couture.

Returning home after three years, Bryant temporarily engaged in several business pursuits with his brother, including a trip to the gold fields of the Klondike. These were not financially successful. Resuming his art training in 1900, he traveled to Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where his instructors were Thomas Anshutz, who also became a good friend, William Merritt Chase, Hugh Breckenridge and Cecelia Beaux, He married Maude Drein, a fellow student, in June of 1904 and they spent the summer painting and visiting galleries in England and France.

Bryant moved to Baltimore in 1909, although he spent the summers at various locations on the East coast. Summer landscapes figured prominently in his work, in addition to figure studies, flower still-lifes-a specialty-and even a number of murals for prominent Baltimore homes.

In 1930 the artist moved to Los Angeles to take advantage of a more temperate climate. There he adopted the medium of tempura which he found best suited for western landscapes. He made numerous sketching trips throughout California, Nevada and Arizona and continued to paint until three weeks before his death on September 7, 1945.

Bryant was one of the founding members of the old Baltimore Charcoal Club and also received a Silver Medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915 for his flower paintings. He is represented in a number of permanent collections including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of

Fine Art and the Art Institute of St. Paul.