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Born 1802 - Utica, N. Y. ; Died, 1846.
American. Engraver, Printmaker, portrait, genre, and landscape painter.
Pupil of Jarvis. He possessed a fine mind, and refined and scholarly tastes. As a friend he was much beloved, and as a man much admired. In his pictures he was somewhat unequal, and when we regard his genre subjects, we feel that he never did the best of which he was capable, and can but regret that he did not devote himself to that class of pictures. His portraits were very much admired at one time, and his income was good; but his health failed, he met with some reverses, was absent in England for a time, and returned to find himself out of fashion, and his place filled by others. He painted portraits of various notable persons, some of which are in the Boston Athenaeum, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, City Hall, New York, and the Capitol at Albany. His genre pictures are in private collections and embrace a variety of subjects, such as the " Boyhood of Washington," the "Newsboy," the "Awaking of Rip Van Winkle," "Mumble-the-Peg," etc.
Source:
Clement, Clara Erskine: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, And Their Works. Houghton Mifflin; New York, 1901.
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