. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . offered to admit the youth into the mysteriesof his craft for the modest sum of one thousand dollars. Not long afterwardan engraver in Newark, New Jersey, took him as an apprentice, and saw himexcelling his new master. An engraving of an old beggar, from a head paintedby Waldo and Jewitt, attracted the attention of Colonel Trumbull, andbrought from that gentleman an order for an engraving of his painting, TheDeclaration of Independence. The price named was three thousand dollars;the time consumed was six years ; t
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . offered to admit the youth into the mysteriesof his craft for the modest sum of one thousand dollars. Not long afterwardan engraver in Newark, New Jersey, took him as an apprentice, and saw himexcelling his new master. An engraving of an old beggar, from a head paintedby Waldo and Jewitt, attracted the attention of Colonel Trumbull, andbrought from that gentleman an order for an engraving of his painting, TheDeclaration of Independence. The price named was three thousand dollars;the time consumed was six years ; the best result was the establishment ofDurands reputation. Orders for prints came in abundance, and the success-ful artist proceeded to engrave original portraits of celebrated clergymen—ofRomeyn, Macleod, Boudinot, Summerfield, and others. To the National Por-trait Gallery he made important contributions. He furnished plates annuallyto the Talisman. But perhaps his most notable achievements with the burinwere the celebrated ideal figures, Musidora and Ariadne, which he en-. BROOK, AND VISTA IN THE a Painting by Asher Brown Durand. p. 129. AS HER BROWN BUR AND. 129 graved from designs of his own, and in which his success in the representationof flesh was almost marvelous. As early as the year 1830 Mr. Durand had turned his attention to paint-ing, and in 1840 he went to Europe to prosecute his studies in that direction,staid a year, and made copies of some Titians and Rembrandts. On his re-turn, his first preference was for historical figure-painting, but the generalabsence of models, costumes, and other facilities, having discouraged him, heresolved to try himself in portrait-painting—not, however, until he had pro-duced his Wrath of Peter Stuyvesant, now in the New York HistoricalSocietys gallery, and other works. His portraits became very popular, andhe received orders sufficient to have occupied all his available time. He wason the road to wealth. He found
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