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EDWARD LAMSON HENRY (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD LAMSON HENRY (1841– )  ,
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American genre painter, was born in
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Charleston, South Carolina, on the 12th of
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January 1841 . He was a pupil of the
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schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of
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Fine Arts in
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Philadelphia, and of Gleyre and Courbet in Paris, and in 1870 was elected to the
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National Academy of Design, New York . As a painter of colonial and early American themes and incidents of rural
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life, he displays a quaint humour and a profound knowledge of human nature . Among his best-known compositions are some of early railroad travel, incidents of stage coach and canal boat journeys, rendered with much detail on a minute scale .

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