Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 51
ing of a tavern; and then took his wife and child and floated on a flat-boat down the Alleghany to Pittsburgh—at that time a mere settlement—in search of something by which to earn a bare living. There he took tosign-painting; and it was not until his twenty-sixth year that the idea ofbecoming a… … AN IDEAL HEAD. [g. A. BAKER.] lesson while looking over the artists shoulder; and his first crude at-tempts so fascinated him that he at once adopted art as a profession,and in six months painted one hundred likenesses, such as thej were, attwenty-five dollars each, and then settled in Boston,…
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