A Life Between Continents Virgil Macey Williams lived a life defined by movement and the pursuit of formal discipline. Born in 1830 in Dixfield, Maine, he was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts, before his path led him toward the rigorous academic environments of New York City and eventually Europe. His education at Brown University provided a foundation, but it was his time spent abroad between 1853 and 1860 that shaped his artistic sensibilities. In Rome, he studied under the painter William Page, a connection that would later link his personal and professional histories through marriage to P…