. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . yles, with theaddition of stip-pling. In Englandhe had studiedpainting underJohn Varley andHenry Richter,and in Philadel-phiahe became thepupil of JoshuaShaw and ManuelJ. de Franca. Forabout ten years after his arrival in this country hewas also engaged in painting portraits in oil andminiatures on ivory. During the same time hefound employment in making designs for bank-notevignettes, arid also in drawing on wood for book-illustration. In 1843 he became proprietor and ed-itor of Campbells Foreign Semi-Monthly Maga-zine, and thereafter devoted h
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . yles, with theaddition of stip-pling. In Englandhe had studiedpainting underJohn Varley andHenry Richter,and in Philadel-phiahe became thepupil of JoshuaShaw and ManuelJ. de Franca. Forabout ten years after his arrival in this country hewas also engaged in painting portraits in oil andminiatures on ivory. During the same time hefound employment in making designs for bank-notevignettes, arid also in drawing on wood for book-illustration. In 1843 he became proprietor and ed-itor of Campbells Foreign Semi-Monthly Maga-zine, and thereafter devoted himself entirely to en-graving and to literary work. He had an interest atthe same time in the Eclectic Museum, for which,later, when John H. Agnew was alone in charge,he simply engraved the plates. In 1848 he pur-chased a one-half interest in the Union Maga-zine, a New York periodical, which he transferredto Philadelphia. The name was changed to Sar-tains Union Magazine. and during the four yearsof its existence the journal became widely During this period, besides his editorial work andthe engravings that had to be made regularly fortin- periodicals with which he was connected, Sar-bain produced an enormous quantity of plates forbook-illustration. The framing print* from hisstudio include The County Election in Missouri,after Bingham (about 1855); Mr. and Mrs. RobertGilmor, of Baltimore, two plates after Sir ThomasLawrence ; David Paul Brown, after John Xeagle;rlin-t Rejected, after Benjamin West (1862);•• Men of Progress, American Inventors (lsr,-,i. Zeisberger preaching to the Indians at. Gosgo-shunk (about 1862), and The Iron-Worker andKing Solomon (!S7(i). the last three after Chris-tian Schuessele: John Knox and Mary, Queen ofScots, after Emmanuel Leutze; Homestead ofHenry Clay, after Hamilton; Edwin and The Battle of Gettysburg (1876-7), afterPeter F. Rothermel. Since he came to Philadel-phia, Mr. Sartain had taken an active interest inart matters the
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