biography
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| (1796–1872)
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| biography:
| Artist and writer, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied law, but soon turned to drawing and painting. During 1832–40 he was studying the Indians of the Far West, painting portraits and pictures, illustrative of life and manners, which are now in the National Museum at Washington. He spent eight years in Europe with a Far West show, travelled (1852–7) in South and Central America, and again lived in Europe until 1871. |
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