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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ogether and well paiuted, for it is well painted—and yet the wholehas no power to affect us in any way, or to resemble anything we have everseen, or to bring any scene before us as it ought actually to have hap-pened. Now, Mr. Miller confronts us directly with Nature, his methodsand means being set aside; yet while we look we are conscious of beingin the hands of a teacher who can show us what otherwise might haveescaped us. Of Scottish art. which has produced some fine things in this country,James McDougall Hart is a highly-creditable incarnation. He was born onthe 10th of May, 1828, in Kilmarnock, Ayreshire, Scotland, in the same town-ship with Robert Burns. When six years of age he came to America withhis parents, who found a home in Albany, New York. There the painterspent most of his youthful days. He went to Europe in 1852-53, studiedin Diisseldorf and Munich, and made a sketching-tour along the Rhine andin the Tyrol, chiefly on foot. In 1857, he moved to New York, and for the
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QJ0 u, uXh 0h aa hUtt * Q S, 11 JAMES MCDOU0 ALL HART. 47 last twenty-one years has been distinguished there. Some of our well-knownartists have been his pupils. These are the principal external events in one of the most uneventful oflives. We should not forget, however, to chronicle the facts that in 1857 Mr.Hart was elected an Academician, and that a few years after, on the nomina-tion of a friend and patron, he became a member of the Union League Club inNew York City He paid his initiation-fee, kept away from the institution ayear, and then resigned. He spends his evenings with his family, and is lessseldom seen in a public place than any other artist in New York. At hisstudio he can be found from early morning till early evening. His industryis something amazing, while his capacity for hard work, and plenty of it, isunusual. He has the hearty manners of the best type of his countrymen inthe land of Burns; his wit is fluent and spontaneous ; his good-nature is thesame; you would ap

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