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 . rchitect, and died in Albany, New York, in1868. Starting as a clerk in Syracuse, he went to New Yorkin 1834, where he became a pupil of Trumbull. Eminently aportrait painter (he is said to have painted more than sevenhundred of his contemporaries) he was made A. N. A. in 1845,and N. A. in 1846. His portrait of Fletcher Harper was shownin Paris at the exhibition of 1867. rpo PORTRAIT OF GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT^* (1813-1890). Nicknamed
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 . rchitect, and died in Albany, New York, in1868. Starting as a clerk in Syracuse, he went to New Yorkin 1834, where he became a pupil of Trumbull. Eminently aportrait painter (he is said to have painted more than sevenhundred of his contemporaries) he was made A. N. A. in 1845,and N. A. in 1846. His portrait of Fletcher Harper was shownin Paris at the exhibition of 1867. rpo PORTRAIT OF GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT^* (1813-1890). Nicknamed the Pathfinder, John was a noted American explorer, general and was born at Savannah, Georgia, in 1813 and died in NewYork in 1890. He explored the South Pass (Rocky Moun-tains) and the Pacific Slope; was United States senator fromCalifornia i8so-5i; organized in 1853 an expedition tocomplete a previous exploration of a route to California; wasthe Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1856 andgovernor of Arizona canvas: H. 36 inches; W. 29 the C. C. Markham Collection. Lent by Mr. William S. Hughes. 28. GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT BY CHARLES LORING ELLIOTT
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