. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. f eight is a good draughtsman and engraver. He commencedworking on his own account at the age of seventeen, and isnow engaged in engraving for the National Portrait Gallery ofHerring and Longacre, and has distinguished Mr. Steel is an Irishman and engraves well in the line man-ner. I have seen an excellent print of his, from Mr. JohnNeagles portrait of the Rev. G. T. Bedell, published in C. V. Ward and J. C. Ward. These artists are, I believe, natives of New York, andbrothers. They both h
. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. f eight is a good draughtsman and engraver. He commencedworking on his own account at the age of seventeen, and isnow engaged in engraving for the National Portrait Gallery ofHerring and Longacre, and has distinguished Mr. Steel is an Irishman and engraves well in the line man-ner. I have seen an excellent print of his, from Mr. JohnNeagles portrait of the Rev. G. T. Bedell, published in C. V. Ward and J. C. Ward. These artists are, I believe, natives of New York, andbrothers. They both have painted landscapes for many have merit. Their pictures have clearness, and manyother requisites, but appear to me rather the imitations of artthan nature. 1 John Francis Eugene Prudhomme was born October 4, 1800. He was a skillfulengraver in stipple, later working on bank notes. He was a brother-in-law of ThomasGimbrede and from 1834 to 1853 Curator of the National Academy of Design. 2 James W. Steel was born in Philadelphia, 1799, and died there June 30, CHAPTER XI. Doughty — Weir — Robert M. Sully — Miss Leslie —Bruen — John Durand — Bush — Cummings. Thomas Doughty. This gentleman was born in the year 1793, on the 19th ofJuly, in Philadelphia. Mr. Doughty says, — At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Iwas put out with a younger brother to learn the leather busi-ness, at which I served a regular apprenticeship, and pursuedthe business a few years afterwards. I attempted three orfour paintings in oil during the latter part of my apprentice-ship, but they were mere daubs, inasmuch as I had neverreceived any instruction in oils, and I may as well add hereperhaps, that the only instructions I ever received, were, Imay say almost in my childhood at a most excellent school: ourmaster used to allow those boys who evinced any talents fordrawing, one afternoon in each week to practise, but withoutthe aid of a master; he would inspect the drawings himse
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