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 165
ors, and he began to sketch from Nature and to dec-orate window-shades. In his eighteenth year he was graduated a portrait-painter. His prices were five dollars a head; his studio was in his fatherswood-shed in the neighboring city of Troy. His first fee of five dollars, hesays, made him feel… … WILLIAM HART. 85 nor common than in later years, Mr. Hart found opportunities for paintingmany portraits; but, as the production of every portrait consumed severaldays, he did not get rich fast. He found that five days work, for instance,yielded him at once a revenue of precisely five dollars…
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