Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 300
for art at anearly age. He was fond of sketching from nature, andof copying any little picture that pleased him, and heshowed a determination to pursue any light that mightguide him in his efforts to become a painter. In theabsence of advantages for instruction or improvement,he was in the habit of… … Tlii HEV^ YQHKPSBLLC LIBRAiKT \ I AtTO^ LUHQK XSU \ 1777.] MALBONE. 261 intervals of study, to scene-painting. And tliis Avas thecommencement in art of one whose works in later yearswere distinguished by the utmost delicacy of treatment. He devoted himself to painting miniature-portraits,practising…
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