Portrait Painting in America: The Nineteenth Century

New York: Main Street/Universe Books; Antiques Magazine Library Ser., 1977. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Anthology of articles from the magazine Antiques. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, edges mildly soiled. CONTENTS: Portraits in City Hall, New York, by Edith and Harold Holzer; Paintings in the Council Chamber of Charleston's City Hall, by Anna Wells Rutledge; Portrait painting in colonial and ante-bellum New Orleans, by Roulhac B. Toledano and W. Joseph Fulton; Nineteenth-century painting and sculpture at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, by James F. Jensen; New England miniatures, by Barbara N. Parker; Unpublished miniatures by Benjamin Trott, by Jean Lambert Brockway; Likeness by Audubon, by John Francis McDermott; Aaron Houghton Corwine: Cincinnati artist, by Edward H. Dwight; The Sully portraits at West Point, by William E. Steadman; Lithographs by Rembrandt Peale, by John A. Mahey; Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856), by Patricia L. Heard; Emanuel Leutze: portraitist, by Barbara S. Groseclose; Three Tennessee painters, by Budd H. Bishop; Daniel Huntington: portrait painter over sevem decades, by Agnes Gilchrist American primitive portraiture: a revaluation, by Jean Lipman; Zedekiah Belknap, by Elizabeth R. Mankin; Ammi Phillips: limner extraordinary, by Barbara and Larry Holdridge; Two American primitives: Abijah Canfield of Connecticut, by Kenneth Scott; William M. Prior: travelling artist, by Nina Fletcher Little; Deborah Goldsmith: itinerant portrait painter, by Jean Lipman; Joseph H. Davis: New Hampshire artist of the 1830's, by Frank Spinney; "Drawn by I. Bradley from Great Britton", by Mary Childs Black and Stuart P. Field; Asahel Powers: painter of Vermont faces, by Nina Fletcher Little; Nicholas Biddle in portraiture, by Nicholas B. Wainwright; Another Coriolanus: portraits of Keokuk, Chief of the Sac and Fox, by John Francis McDermott; Portraits of Red Jacket, by Mary M. Kenway; Portraits of Rebecca Gratz by Thomas Sully, by Hannah London; Portraits of ante-bellum Kentuckians, by William Barrow Floyd.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.