American painters on technique : the colonial period to 1860 / Lance Mayer and Gay Myers

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Contents: Provincial painters and European connections -- Banjamin West and his influence -- Americans in the old world: Copley, the Peales, and Trumbull -- Gilbert Stuart: The first American old master -- Washington Allston:" the painter poet" -- Sully, the old masters, and "tone" -- The "experimentalists" -- Thoms Sully: compiler and experimenter -- John Neagle: the methodical experimenter -- Rembrandt Peale: experimenter and entrepeneur -- Store-bought supplies and new materials in the 1830's,1840's, and 1850's -- Thomas Cole: "the best landscape painter in the world" -- William Sydney Mount: "stamped with an entirely american character"