Early American Paintings; Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, February 3D

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...to Rome in 1844. In 1850 an exhibition of his works held in New York attracted considerable attention. He was the third president of the National Academy of Design, being elected in 1862; he was elected N. A. in 1840. MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862). Born at Kin-derhook, New York, the son of a farmer. Student at the Kinderhook Academy; admitted to the bar in 1803; state senator, 1812; attorney-general, 1815-1819; United States senator, 1821; governor of New York, 1828; secretary of state, under Jackson, 1829; minister to England, 1831; eighth vice-president of the United States, 1833; eighth president of the United States, 1837-1841, having defeated William Henry Harrison, whose portraits are Nos. 50, 59, 66, of this exhibition. On canvas: H. 30 inches; W. 25 inches. Signed: D. Huntington, 1861. Lent by Mr. Herbert Lee Pratt. DANIEL HUNTINGTON CONTINUED PORTRAIT OF MADEMOISELLE ROSINA. This painting is also known as The Sketcher and the Fair Sketcher and is mentioned among Huntington's paintings in Tuckerman's Book of the Artists, page 331. On canvas: H. 39 inches; W. 31J/4 inches. Marked on the stretcher: The Sketcher, portrait of Mile. Rosina, a Jewess. D. Huntington, HENRY INMAN 1802-1846 This portrait, genre and landscape painter was born in Utica, New York. He studied under John Wesley Jarvis for seven years, opened a studio in Vesey Street in 1823 and in 1826 was elected vice-president of the newly established National Academy of Design. An excellent portrait painter, he seems to have thought more of his landscapes than anything else: C. Edwards Lester, in his Artists of America, published in New York in 1846, quotes him as follows: The taste of my 'customers' is limited chiefly to portraits. They wil...