Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . Quidor, a painter of fancy-pieces. Having acquired the tech-nicalities of the art, his chief employ-ment for a time was copying engravingsin oil, and afterwards he attempted por-traits. He practised portrait-painting inthe interior of New York for about tenyears, when he went to the city (1845),where he soon rose to the head of his pro-fession as a portrait-painter. It is saidthat he painted 700 portraits, many ofthem of distinguished men. His like-nesses were always remarkable f
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . Quidor, a painter of fancy-pieces. Having acquired the tech-nicalities of the art, his chief employ-ment for a time was copying engravingsin oil, and afterwards he attempted por-traits. He practised portrait-painting inthe interior of New York for about tenyears, when he went to the city (1845),where he soon rose to the head of his pro-fession as a portrait-painter. It is saidthat he painted 700 portraits, many ofthem of distinguished men. His like-nesses were always remarkable for fidel-ity, and for beauty and vigor of died in Albany, Aug. 25, 1868. Elliott, Charles Wtllys, author; bornin Guilford, Conn., May 27, 1817. His pub-lications relating to the United States in-clude Neio England History, from theDiscovery of the Continent by the North-men, A. D. 968, to 1776; and The Bookof American Interiors, prepared from ex-istitig Houses. He died Aug. 23, 1883. Elliott, Jesse Duncan, naval officer;born in Maryland, July 14, 1782; enteredthe United States navy as midshipman in. JhSJ^K DUNCAN KLLIOTT. April, 1804; and rose to master, July 24,1813. He was with Barron in the Tripoli-tan War, and served on the Lakes withChauncey and Perry in the War of 1812-15. He captured two British vessels, De-troit and Caledonia, at Fort Erie, forwhich exploit he was presented by Con-gress with a, sword. He was in commandof the Niagara in Perrys famous combaton Lake Erie, to which the Commodore 219 ELLIOTT—ELLIS
Size: 1600px × 1561px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorwilsonwoodrow18561924, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
