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Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)

Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 132

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ICAN PAINTERS. 129 and his work is thoroughly finished, and yet broad in effect. lie evidentlylias no hobbies to ride. As a designer of horses he has few equals in thiscountry. If we have a fault to find with him, it is in a certain lack ofsnap, of warmth, of enthusiasm in the handling of a… … A MATIN SONU.—[FIDELIA BRIDGES.] rendering of figures, feluccas, and waves, all tending to illustrate his ver-satility. But he deserves to be most widely known on account of scenes,taken from Southern life, and historic compositions suggested by the latewar, or illustrating notable events of the…

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