biography
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| (1784–1861)
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| biography:
| Painter and lithographer, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA. He began as a scythemaker, became a portrait painter in New York City (1808), and from 1812 lived in Philadelphia. Considered the first American lithographer, he published a portrait of Reverend Abner Kneeland in a volume of lectures (1818), and also painted portraits of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. |
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