Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 30
cuted some good portraits before abandoning his native land,including one of John Adams, which is in the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety. He is known abroad chiefly as a genre painter of semi-literarycompositions. James Frothingham was also a pupil, and in some degree an imitator,of Stuart, who… … BEGGARS OPERA. [G. STUART NEWTON.] taught, he was able to execute a very tolerable likeness — or because ofnatural limitation of power, Frothinghams talent seemed to stop with theneck of the sitter. The face would perhaps be reproduced with a force,a beauty of color, and a truth of character that…
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