The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879-, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster, 1885- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 334
pasted, like a flyleaf, atthe beginning of a manuscript volume of hymns andother mystical religious effusions composed by theartist. Both subject and painter were quaint charactersof unusual interest, and what the portrait lacks intechnical excellence or artistic charm is made up in theremarkable… … PORTRAIT OF MAGISTER JOHAXNES KELPIUS, PAINTED IN 1705 BY DR. CHRISTOPHER WITT The first portrait in oils painted in the Colonies Courtesy of Pennsylvania Historical Society
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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