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_The painters represented in this work are as follows_:

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

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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.

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"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