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HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY OSSAWA See also:TANNER (1859- )  , See also:American artist, of See also:negro descent, was See also:born at See also:Pittsburg, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 21st of See also:June 18J9 . He was the son of See also:Benjamin See also:Tucker See also:Tanner (b . 1835), who became See also:bishop of the See also:African Methodist Episcopal See also:Church in 1888, edited the See also:Christian See also:Recorder, the See also:organ of his church, from 1867 to 1883, founded, and from 1884 to 1888 edited, the African Methodist Episcopal Church See also:Review, and published several See also:pamphlets, poems and See also:hymns, and an See also:Apology for African See also:Methodism (1867) . The son was a See also:pupil of See also:Thomas See also:Eakins, in See also:Philadelphia, and of J . P . Iaurens and Benjamin See also:Constant in See also:Paris . He first exhibited at the See also:Salon in 1895 . His " See also:Daniel in the Lions' Den " received an See also:honourable mention at the Salon of 1896 . " The Raising of See also:Lazarus," which received a third-class See also:medal in 1897, was See also:purchased by the See also:French See also:government for the permanent collection of the Luxembourg .

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