. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . umn of 1862 Mr. Wilmarth returnedto America. Two years afterward he became a student in the Ecole desBeaux-Arts in Paris, iu the atelier of Gerome, whence he sent to the Acade-my exhibitions in New York his Sparking in the Olden Time, his PlayingTwo Games at One Time, his Little Pitchers have Big Ears, his LastHours of Captain Nathan Hale, and other works. He opened a studio inNew York in 1867. The next year he assumed the charge of the schoolsof the Brooklyn Art Association, and in 1870 became professor in thesch
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . umn of 1862 Mr. Wilmarth returnedto America. Two years afterward he became a student in the Ecole desBeaux-Arts in Paris, iu the atelier of Gerome, whence he sent to the Acade-my exhibitions in New York his Sparking in the Olden Time, his PlayingTwo Games at One Time, his Little Pitchers have Big Ears, his LastHours of Captain Nathan Hale, and other works. He opened a studio inNew York in 1867. The next year he assumed the charge of the schoolsof the Brooklyn Art Association, and in 1870 became professor in theschools of the National Academy of Design. His portrait-group, enti-tled An Afternoon at Home, was in the Academy Exhibition of 1871 ;and his genre picture, Guess what Ive brought You ?—a boy stand-ing before a lady and little girl, and holding behind him a squirrel ina cage—in the Exhibition of 1873. Not long ago, in the same place, washung the work which we have engraved. It is called Ingratitude, andthe ingratitude is that of the mother of a litter of pups, who steals the. Q « D 5 H g h ^ ffi 0 WN. m dinner of a laborer while the latter is in the act of making a bed forher young offspring. Mr. George Loring Brown was born in Boston in 1814. When twelveyears old he was apprenticed to a wood-engraver. He took his first lessons inpainting from Washington Allston. After Mr. Isaac P. Davis, a connoisseurof that city, had given him fifty dollars for a copy of a landscape, he resolvedto go to Italy. A Boston merchant having presented him with one hundreddollars, he put his resolution into execution, and, in his nineteenth year,landed at Antwerp with an empty wallet. The captain of the ship that hadtaken him over lent him some money ; and with a stout heart he proceeded tomake sketches of the Antwerp Cathedral, and studies of the paintings ofBuysdael. Soon he found himself in London, where another friend assistedhim financially, and enabled him to buy a ticket for Paris. In the Fr
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