Identifier: americanpainters00shel (find matches)
Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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de, and Missouri Rivers, betray the in-fluence of Mr. A. B. Durand, who was President of the National Academywhen Mr. Meeker was a student in New York, and in most of them are seensycamores. Benjamin F. Reinhaet, portrait, genre, and historical painter, was bornnear Waynesburg, in Western Pennsylvania, on the 29th of August, 1829.At the age of fourteen, and with scarcely any previous instruction, he beganto exercise himself in portraiture, succeeding so well that by the time he wastwenty-one years old he had laid up money enough to obtain the immediategoal of his desires, namely, a visit to Europe. For three years thereafter hestudied art in the schools of Diisseldorf, Paris, and Rome. On returning toAmerica he resumed the practice of portrait-painting, and was invited intoservice by the friends of Pesident Buchanan, Vice-President Dallas, JudgeCoulter, and many other distinguished men, both in the North and South,including oilicers in the Confederate army and navy. In 1861 he went to
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KATRINA VAN TASSEL.From a Painting by Benjamin F. Reinhart. p. 138. BENJAMIN F. REIXIIAHT. ,;m, England again, and staid seven years in and near London. When he foundhimself in New York, he received orders from the Geographical Society for aportrait of Judge Charles P. Daly, and from the Bar Association for a portraitof Charles OConor. For the last fifteen years he has traveled extensively inthis country, and has transferred to canvas the verisimilitudes of hundreds ofpersons, besides devoting a good deal of time to the delineation of genre andhistorical subjects. One of these subjects is Katrina Van Tassel, which we have engraved.It is painted entirely with black and white pigments, and is a sweet, simple,and piquant representation. Katrina looks as Washington Irving describesher, a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melt-ing and rosy-cheeked as one of her fathers peaches, and universally famed notmerely for her beauty, but her vast expectations ; she was

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