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ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM TAIT (1819-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 364 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARTHUR See also:FITZWILLIAM See also:TAIT (1819-1905)  , See also:American artist, was See also:born See also:pear See also:Liverpool, See also:England, on the 5th of August1819 . He emigrated to the See also:United States in 1850, and was identified with the See also:art See also:life of New See also:York until his See also:death . In 1858 he was elected to full membership in the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New York . He died at See also:Yonkers, New York, on the 28th of See also:April 1905 . He painted barnyard fowls and See also:wild birds as well as See also:sheep and See also:deer, with See also:great dexterity, and reproductions of his See also:minute panels of chickens had an enormous See also:vogue .

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