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SARTAIN, JOHN (1808–1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARTAIN, See also:JOHN (1808–1897) . See also:American artist, was See also:born in See also:London, See also:England, on the 24th of See also:October 18o8. At the See also:age of twenty-two he emigrated to See also:America, and settled in See also:Philadelphia. He was the See also:pioneer of See also:mezzotint See also:engraving in America. See also:Early in his career he painted portraits in oil and made miniatures; he engraved plates in 1841–1848 for See also:Graham's See also:Magazine, published by See also:George Rex Graham (1813–1894); became editor and proprietor of See also:Campbell's See also:Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine in 1843; and from 1849–1852 published with Graham Sartain's See also:Union Magazine. He had See also:charge of the See also:art See also:department of the Centennial See also:Exhibition, Philadelphia, in 1876; took a prominent See also:part in the See also:work of the See also:committee on the See also:Washington Memorial, by See also:Rudolf Siemering, in Fairmount See also:Park, Philadelphia; designed medallions for the See also:monument to Washington and See also:Lafayette erected in 1869 in Monument See also:Cemetery, Philadelphia; and was a member of the See also:Pennsylvania See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts and a See also:cavaliere of the Royal Equestrian See also:Order of the See also:Crown of See also:Italy. He died in Philadelphia on the 25th of October 1897. His Reminiscences of a Very Old See also:Man (New See also:York, 1899) are of unusual See also:interest. Of his See also:children See also:WILLIAM SARTAIN (b. 1843), landscape and figure painter, was born at Philadelphia on the 21st of See also:November 1843, studied under his See also:father and under See also:Leon See also:Bonnat, See also:Paris, was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, and became an See also:associate of the See also:National Academy of See also:Design. Another son, See also:SAMUEL SARTAIN (1830-1906), and a daughter, EMILY SARTAIN (b. 1841), who in 1886 became See also:principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for See also:Women, were also American artists.

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