The Mentor

The Mentor: American Landscape Painters, Vol. 1, Num. 26, Serial No. 26

Isham, Samuel, 1855-1914· 2 chapters· 5,097 words

The beginnings of art in America were confined almost exclusively to portrait painting. In the earliest colonial times unskilled limners came from the mother country and made grotesque effigies of our statesmen and divines. As the settlements developed and the amenities of lif...

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The beginnings of art in America were confined almost exclusively to portrait painting. In the earliest colonial times unskilled limners came from the mother country and made gr...

2. Part 2

The year 1865 brought the opportunity to which Wyant had long looked. He was able to go abroad, and study there for awhile in Karlsruhe and London. But the result was somewhat d...