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<p>[QUOTE="Pat P, post: 421712, member: 201"]Yup, I understood that about the engraving being after a painting and that it was done by someone else. What I was trying to say was that if his paintings were reproduced as engravings, there was no coroboration of that in the article. It doesn't mean there were no engravings of his paintings, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be the engraver or publisher goofed with the spelling. Also, as I'm discovering with my genealogical research, until the 20th century, the spelling of surnames wasn't as fixed as it is today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pat P, post: 421712, member: 201"]Yup, I understood that about the engraving being after a painting and that it was done by someone else. What I was trying to say was that if his paintings were reproduced as engravings, there was no coroboration of that in the article. It doesn't mean there were no engravings of his paintings, though. It could be the engraver or publisher goofed with the spelling. Also, as I'm discovering with my genealogical research, until the 20th century, the spelling of surnames wasn't as fixed as it is today.[/QUOTE]
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