. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. HE sculptor, Benjamin Puul Akers, was bom at Saccarappa, Maine, in 1825. Going to Port- tl land when he wa* eighteen years old^ after ^5) wor
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. HE sculptor, Benjamin Puul Akers, was bom at Saccarappa, Maine, in 1825. Going to Port- tl land when he wa* eighteen years old^ after ^5) work- ing fors u ni etinu* ina print-ing office, heturned his at-tention to theart of sciilp-t u r e, andwhen about twenty-four he began businessas a sculptor at thatcity. Among the re-sults of his labors dur-ing the nest two yearswas a bust of the poetLongfellow. After avisit to Italy in 1851-2,he returned to Maineand produced the statueof Benjamin inEgypt, which was onexhibition at the worldsfair in New York in1853. In 1855 he againvisited Europe, resid-ing for three years inHome, where he exe-cuted his superiorstatues of *Una andthe Lion, St. Eliza-be t h o f Hungary(three copies in mar-ble), The Dead PearlDiver, and an idealhead of Milton. revisited Romein 1859, returning toAmerica in thefollowing year, and resided during the remainder of his life at Portland and IMiila-delphia. died in the latter city in 18G].. Joseph Edgar Boehme, English Sculptor. JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHME. [UK English artist, JnFejdi K. Hodimc, was born at Vienna,Austria, in 1834. His father was an admirer of paintings, andpossessed, in Josephs youth, a valuable coMection of art-trcas-urcH, Illustrative of the power of genius, ranging in great variety from Egyptian antiquity to the present day. The father, who occu-pied a high position under the government, carefully encouragedhis son, by proper schooling, to cherish a love for art, without intending that heshould adopt it as aprofession. The youth
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