. History of the town of Princeton, in the county of Worcester and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915. the follow-ing year. This is the first knowledge we have of Savage as anartist and we are in profound ignorance of what preparationhe had to essay so important a commission. That he hadsome experience, and perhaps instruction, goes withoutsaying, for even though his portrait of Washington is notthe best art, yet it could not have been painted by an abso-lutely inexperienced tyro.* In 1791, Savage went to London where he is said to havestudied under Benjamin West, and it is inferred that
. History of the town of Princeton, in the county of Worcester and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915. the follow-ing year. This is the first knowledge we have of Savage as anartist and we are in profound ignorance of what preparationhe had to essay so important a commission. That he hadsome experience, and perhaps instruction, goes withoutsaying, for even though his portrait of Washington is notthe best art, yet it could not have been painted by an abso-lutely inexperienced tyro.* In 1791, Savage went to London where he is said to havestudied under Benjamin West, and it is inferred that hevisited Italy, from the inscription on the whole-lengthportrait of Columbus, engraved by Edwin and publishedby Savage, at Philadelphia in 1800, which states that theportrait of Columbus is copied from the original picture,by E. Savage, in the collection of the Grand Duke of Tus-cany, at Florence. While in London he learned to engrave in stipple andmezzotint, as his portrait of General Knox was published * Mass. Hist. Soc, 1858-60, Paper by Mr. Charles Henry Hart, Phila-delphia, corresponding
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