American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 24
ve commissions for portraits at fivedollars each, a sum which is not quite so meagre as it appears, as five dollars then were equalin purchasing power to at least ten dollars to-day. The genius of Doughty, Cole, and Durandwas at this time arousing people of taste to a perception of the importance… … Daniel Huntington, P.N. A. Engraved by W. B. Closson. — From a Photograph by Sarony. 22 AMERICAN ART series of paintings representing the scenery of that lovely neighborhood would aid him in adver-tising the value of his property. Having observed the young artist forwarding the back-grounds in the…
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