Early Life and Education Edmund Charles Tarbell, a name synonymous with the serene beauty of American Impressionism, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1862 – a town steeped in history and nestled amidst the rolling hills of New England. His early life, however, was marked by profound loss; his father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, tragically succumbed to typhoid fever just a few years after his birth, leaving young Edmund and his sister…