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Lessons in Likeness - Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 (Hardcover)
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Lessons in Likeness - Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 (Hardcover)
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From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting
portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John
Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck's students, worked in
Louisville, a wide variety of portrait artists were active in
Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. Lessons in Likeness: Portrait
Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802--1920 charts
the course of those artists as they painted the mighty and the
lowly, statesmen and business magnates as well as country folk
living far from urban centers. Paintings by each artist are
illustrated, when possible, from The Filson Historical Society
collection of some 400 portraits representing one of the most
extensive holdings available for study in the region. This volume
begins with a cultural chronology -- a backdrop of critical events
that shaped the taste and times of both artist and sitter. The
chronology is followed by brief biographies of the artists, both
legends and recent discoveries, illustrated by their work. Matthew
Harris Jouett, who studied with Gilbert Stuart, William Edward
West, who painted Lord Byron, and Frank Duveneck are well-known;
far less so are James T. Poindexter, who painted charming
children's portraits in western Kentucky, Reason Croft, a recently
discovered itinerant in the Louisville area, and Oliver Frazer, the
last resident portrait artist in Lexington during the romantic era.
Pennington's study offers a captivating history of portraiture not
only as a cherished possession but also representing a period of
cultural and artistic transitions in the history of the Ohio River
Valley region.
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