Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843 - 1925)

Hugh Antoine d'Arcy was a French-born poet and writer and a pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry. He is best known for his 1887 poem, The Face upon the Floor. It is sometimes erroneously called The Face upon the Barroom Floor, a sorrowful tale of a painter who takes to drink after his lover deserts him for the fair-haired lad in one of his portraits.