T. Merrill Prentice

Prentice graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and also studied architecture at Columbia University. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a four-year experience he recounted in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. It was during his time in France that Prentice first became interested in watercolors. However, he abandoned painting to work full-time as an architect, and later taught architecture at Yale from 1933 to 1935. His first commissions included a French château for his parents and the Federal Building in Hartford,Ct. He worked for architectural firms throughout New York City and Hartford until he retired in 1965. It was not until his retirement to Cornwall, Connecticut, that Prentice took up painting again.