. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... 2. THOMAS MORAN, the well-knownpainter of Rocky Mountain scenery,was born in Lancashire, England, in came to America when a child, andshowing artistic tastes, he was apprenticedto a wood engraver in Philadelphia. Threeyears later he began landscape painting, andhis style soon began to exhibit signs of first works were water-colors, andthough without an instructor he began theuse of oils, he soon found it necessary tovisit Europe, where he gave
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... 2. THOMAS MORAN, the well-knownpainter of Rocky Mountain scenery,was born in Lancashire, England, in came to America when a child, andshowing artistic tastes, he was apprenticedto a wood engraver in Philadelphia. Threeyears later he began landscape painting, andhis style soon began to exhibit signs of first works were water-colors, andthough without an instructor he began theuse of oils, he soon found it necessary tovisit Europe, where he gave particular at-tention to the works of Turner. He joinedthe Yellowstone Park exploring expeditionand visited the Rocky Mountains in 1871and again in 1873, making numeroussketches of the scenery. The most note-worthy results were his Grand Canon ofthe Yellowstone, and The Chasm of theColorado, which were purchased by con-gress at $10,000 each, the first of which isundoubtedly the finest landscape paintingproduced in this country. Mr. Moran hassubordinated art to nature, and the subjectshe has chosen leave little ground for fault. COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 101 finding on thai account, rhe Mountainol the Holy Cross, Th<- * rrovi WenGods Firsl Temples, Phe Cliffs ol GreenRiver, The Children ol the Mountain,•• rhe Ripening 61 the l eaf, and othershave given him additional tame, and whilethey do nol equal in grandeui the firslmentioned, in many respects from an artti< standpoinl thej are superioi LEI anh STANFORD was one ol thegreatest men i the Pat iflt t oasl andalso had ;» national reputation, He wasborn March . is • |. in Ubanj county, NevYork, and passed his early life on hislathers faim, 1i,. .111,1 .i i,wyears later he moved to Port Washington,Wisconsin, where ho practiced law foui\ ears v* hIi model ate succt ? in t8j3 MiStanford determined to push furthei west,and, accordingly wenl to California, w
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