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Paintbrush for hire : the travels of James and Emma S. Cameron, 1840-1900 / Frederick C. Moffatt.
Fine Arts Library ND237.C2215 M64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moffatt, Frederick C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cameron, James, 1817-1882.
- Cameron, James.
- Cameron, Emma, 1825-1907.
- Cameron, Emma.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Throughout the nineteenth-century, itinerant painters traveled the length and breadth of Europe and American in search of patronage. In the company of the his crupulous wife, Emma S. Cameron (1825?1907), the Scots-born James Cameron (1816?1882) sought to fulfill his ambitious dream of becoming an artist. Working primarily as a landscapist and portraitist?he was also an inventor, a missionary, an ordained minister, a land agent, farmer, clothing merchant, and Sunday school teacher?Cameron produced a small collection of paintings during the ten-year period the couple resided in East Tennessee and the American South.
- Contents:
- Introduction: finding James Cameron
- Philadelphia freedoms
- Fallen Italy
- America's eastern climes, 1849-1856
- Knoxville, Tennessee, 1856
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Augusta, Georgia, 1856-1857
- Lookout Mountain, 1857
- Mississippi an the Deep South, 1857-1858
- Return to Lookout Mountain, 1858
- Nashville, 1858-1859
- The Whiteside family portrait and Cameron Hill, 1859-1860
- Emma's exile, 169
- Nashville II, 1863-1867
- Missionaries for hire: the Camerons in Maine and California, 1868-1881.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-349) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781621903659
- 1621903656
- OCLC:
- 1019648765
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