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

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