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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 1680777, member: 56"]Out of all the miniaturists, known and unknown, it does make you wonder why they choose him. It's odd that there's so little about him online. The descriptions suggest he was well-enough known in Philadelphia, which also suggests that he was a competent artist. I would guess he painted some prominent Pennsylvanians in his day. For what it's worth, here's an entry from "A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" by Daphne Foskett:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]235841[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like he left Britain in his mid-thirties. He would have been fully developed as an artist by then but, if there's any legitimacy to the attribution, this could be an early work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 1680777, member: 56"]Out of all the miniaturists, known and unknown, it does make you wonder why they choose him. It's odd that there's so little about him online. The descriptions suggest he was well-enough known in Philadelphia, which also suggests that he was a competent artist. I would guess he painted some prominent Pennsylvanians in his day. For what it's worth, here's an entry from "A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" by Daphne Foskett: [ATTACH=full]235841[/ATTACH] Looks like he left Britain in his mid-thirties. He would have been fully developed as an artist by then but, if there's any legitimacy to the attribution, this could be an early work.[/QUOTE]
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