Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 50
turbances which then con-vulsed Europe, or copies of more or less merit. These works made theirway gradually over our country, from Boston to Xew Orleans; and, withthe rapidly shifting fortunes of our families, have often been so complete-ly placed out of sight and forgotten, that it is not an… … PORTRAIT OF FLETCHER HARPER. [c. L. ELLIOTT. AMERICAN PAINTERS. 47 were hidden away somewhere in that vicinity, as in the case of the collec-tion bequeathed to Bowdoin College by its founder; whose best specimenswere eventually sold and scattered for a mere song by a faculty who wereignorant of…
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