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

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