Parton was born in 1842 in
Hudson, New York. He was trained at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of
William Trost Richards. He spent a year in Europe in 1869, after which his paintings began to take on aspects of the
Barbizon School. Parton's 1889
Winter on the Hudson won the
Temple Silver Medal. In 1893, Parton sold 119 of his paintings at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries in New York City. He died in 1914 in
Yonkers, New York. His brother,
Ernest Parton, was also a painter. ==References==