American painters : with one hundred and four examples of their work engraved on wood (1881)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 111
at Dusseldorf, and visiting Paris, Switzerland, and Rome. Aboutthe year 1861 he came to New York, and for the last twelve years has occu-pied his present studio in the Tenth Street Building. Mr. Beard is mostwidely known as a humorous painter of bears and. monkeys. His pieture,recently sold in the… … WILLIAM II. BEARD. 57 country-folk, and standing before a monkey-parson, who is making an inspec-tion of them, in the presence of several monkey-witnesses similarly attired,before forging the matrimonial bonds. In this picture, as in most of his live-lier works, his design is to express character…
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