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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
MYSTIC LOUISIANA BAYOU SCENE WITH WHITE HERON
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Born in England, John Antrobus was an itinerant portrait, landscape, and genre painter and also a poet and journalist. He was the first artist to paint a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant and designed the Grant medal authorized by Congress in 1863.
He arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1850, and three years later was living in Savannah, Georgia. In 1855-56, he painted portraits in Montgomery, Alabama, and then traveled through the American West and Mexico. In 1859, he opened a studio in (showing 500 of 1186 characters). |
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