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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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n in Utica, N. Y., October, 1801. He became a pupil of John Wesley Jarvis, andearly excelled in the painting of miniature portraits. He afterward devoted his laborsalmost entirely to the production of portraits in oil, and spent some time in Philadelphiaand Boston in the pursuit of his profession. Failing health induced him to visit Eng-land in 1844, where he painted portraits of Dr. Chalmers, Wordsworth, Macaulay, andother celebrated men then living. Returning in 1845 with unrestored health, he un-dertook to furnish the National Capitol with a series of pictures illustrating the settle-ment of the West, but did not complete the first one he undertook. He was a versatilepainter. After his death a collection of one hundred and twenty-seven of his pictureswas exhibited for the benefit of his family. Mr. Inman was at one time vice-presidentof the National Academy of the Arts of Design. He had exquisite literary taste, and wrotesome valuable sketches. He died in New York in January, 1846.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 177 be lighted at six oclock and extinguished at nine oclock in theevening. The Lamp ! It was a famous illuminator, which was extolled insong as A bright volcano hoisted high in air, Smoking like Etna, shedding lurid lightOn gods and goddesses and heroes rare, Who were unmindful of their dingy plight. This lamp was a tin can, holding about half a gallon of oil, with awick four inches in diameter, and set upon a post about ten feet inheight. To secure sufficient light the wick was kept ki high, whichmade it smoke intensely, and showers of lampblack fell softly on everyobject in the room. The organization of the Xew York Drawing Association was theplanting of the germ of the National Academy of the. Arts of Design.The president of the old Academy claimed the members of theDrawing Association as students of the elder institution. One even-ing, a few weeks after their organization, Colonel Trumbull enteredtheir room while they were at work, took the presidents cha

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