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CHARLES CALLAHAN PERKINS (1823-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 173 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES CALLAHAN See also:PERKINS (1823-1886)  , See also:American artist and author, was See also:born in See also:Boston and educated at Harvard, subsequently studying See also:art in See also:Rome and See also:Paris . Returning to Boston, he helped to found the Museum of See also:Fine Arts, of which he was honorary director, and for many years he played a leading See also:part in See also:artistic circles as a cultured critic and writer . His See also:chief publications were Tuscan Sculptors (1864) and See also:Italian Sculptors (1868)—replaced in 1883 by The See also:Historical Handbook of Italian Sculptors—Art in See also:Education (187o), and Sepulchral Monuments in See also:Italy (1885) .

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