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AMERICAN PAINTERS:
_Biographical Sketches of Fifty American Artists._
WITH EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES OF THEIR WORKS,
ENGRAVED ON WOOD IN A PERFECT MANNER.

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_The painters represented in this work are as follows:_

CHURCH,
INNES,
HUNTINGTON,
PAGE,
SANFORD GIFFORD,
SWAIN GIFFORD,
DURAND,
R.W. WEIR,
W.T. RICHARDS,
T. MORAN,
P. MORAN,
PERRY,
BELLOWS,
SHATTUCK,
MILLER,
J.F. WEIR,
HUNT,
WHITTREDGE,
W. HART,
J.M. HART,
McENTEE,
COLMAN,
HICKS,
WINSLOW HOMER,
DE HAAS,
J.G. BROWN,
WYANT,
WOOD,
BRISTOL,
REINHART,
BRIDGMAN,
BIERSTADT,
J.H. BEARD,
W.H. BEARD,
PORTER,
G.L. BROWN,
APPLETON BROWN,
CROPSEY,
CASILEAR,
E. JOHNSON,
SHIRLAW,
CHASE,
BRICHER,
ROBBINS,
WILMARTH,
EATON,
GUY,
QUARTLEY,
HOPKINSON SMITH,
MEEKER.

The publishers feel justified in saying that the contemporaneous art of
no country has ever been so adequately represented in a single volume as
our American Painters are in this work, while the engravings are equal
in execution to the finest examples of wood-engraving produced here or
abroad.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"The richest and in many ways the most notable of fine art books is
'American Painters,' just published, with unstinted liberality in the
making. Eighty-three examples of the work of American artists,
reproduced in the very best style of wood-engraving, and printed with
rare skill, constitute the chief purpose of the book; while the text
which accompanies them, the work of Mr. George W. Sheldon, is a series
of bright and entertaining biographical sketches of the artists, with a
running commentary--critical, but not too critical--upon the peculiarities
of their several methods, purposes, and conceptions."--_New York
Evening Post._

"The volume gives good evidence of the progress of American art. It
shows that we have deft hands and imaginative brains among painters of
the country, and it shows, moreover, that we have publishers who are
liberal and cultured enough to present their works in a handsome and
luxurious form that will make them acceptable. 'American Painters' will
adorn the table of many a drawing-room where art is loved, and where it
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