Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . number of portraits, many ofprominent people, some of which can be seen in the New YorkCity Hall. Tuckerman writes: The portraits of Jarvis arewidely scattered and singularly unequal in merit. They maybe found in the old Southern manor houses and Eastern muni-cipal halls. Inman was his pupil for several years. Concern-ing this Dunlap says (Arts of Design, Vol. II, page 81):When he (Jarvis) went for the first time to New Orleans, heto


Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . number of portraits, many ofprominent people, some of which can be seen in the New YorkCity Hall. Tuckerman writes: The portraits of Jarvis arewidely scattered and singularly unequal in merit. They maybe found in the old Southern manor houses and Eastern muni-cipal halls. Inman was his pupil for several years. Concern-ing this Dunlap says (Arts of Design, Vol. II, page 81):When he (Jarvis) went for the first time to New Orleans, hetook Henry Inman with him. He used to receive six sittersa day—a sitting occupied an hour—the picture was thenhanded to Henry Inman, who painted upon the backgroundand drapery under the masters directions. A A COLONEL JAMES BURN. He was aide-de-camp to Major-General Theodore James Wilkinson, U. S. of cavalry in 1799 and colonel of the Second LightDragoons in 1812; he died in Frankford, near Philadelphia,in 1823. From the collection of George C. Coulon, of New : H. 20 ^g inches; W. 18 ^ inches. The property of the Brooklyn COLONEL JAMES BURN BY JOHN WESLEY JARVIS


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