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Lessons in likeness, portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 : featuring works from the Filson Historical Society, Estill Curtis Pennington

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Lessons in likeness, portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 : featuring works from the Filson Historical Society, Estill Curtis Pennington

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lessons in likeness

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

708037452

Responsibility statement

Estill Curtis Pennington

Sub title

portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 : featuring works from the Filson Historical Society

Summary

Beginning with a cultural chronology, this volume charts the course of the painters as they painted the mighty and the lowly, statesmen and business magnates, as well as country folk living far from urban centers. The chronology is followed by brief biographies of the artists, both legends and recent discoveries, illustrated by their work

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Cultural chronology. 1802-1835 : westward movement, eastern instruction -- 1835-1865 : the invention of photography and the coming of war -- 1865-1918 : exhibitions, collecting, and international trends -- Artists' biographies -- Appendix : an index of artists in Edna Talbott Whitley's Kentucky ante-bellum portraiture

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Portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920

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