Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

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Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

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The Albert Newsam Print Collection is primarily black and white lithographed portraits drawn on stone by Newsam from life or after other artists and photographers. The collection holds images of several hundred prominent figures from the period spanning the late 1820s through the early 1860s. There are more than seventy religious figures, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian clergyman, many of which were published in the U.S. Ecclesiastical Portrait Gallery (1841), and the Presbyterian Historical Almanac (1858). Other dominant occupations are medicine (doctors and dentists), lawyers, judges, military figures, writers, composers, performing artists (dance, music, and theatre), and Philadelphia merchants. Many of the subjects are politicians. There are portraits of eight Pennsylvania governors from George Wolf (1829) through William F. Packer (1858), fifteen American presidents from George Washington through James Buchanan (1857), cabinet members, and congressmen from a variety of states. Many of the portraits were produced for publications - - both books and serials - - as well as for sheet music. Some of the prints have printed or hand-applied color. Several of the images are present in varying states, and there are a number of duplicates. The Historical Society owns all but 91 of the 555 identified Newsam works. Artists most often copied are the painters Henry Inman, Charles Bird King, John Neagle, Gilbert Stuart, and Thomas Sully, and Philadelphia photographers M.A. Root and McClees & Germon. The prints were primarily published by P.S. Duval, as well as other firms including: C.G. Childs; Childs & Inman; Pendleton, Kearny & Childs; Lehman & Duval. Newsam created a series of portraits of Indians for Thomas L. McKenney's noted History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in Philadelphia between 1836 and 1844. Also included in the collection are the plates from four medical publications published in Philadelphia which contain images by Newsam: Pancoast's Treatise on Operative Surgery (1st edition, 1844 and 3rd edition, 1852); Quain and Wilson's Series of Anatomical Plates (1842); and Rayer's A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin (1845). The Newsam prints were acquired by the Historical Society through gift and purchase between 1881 and 1965. The largest accession came in April 1881, when 162 prints were donated by John A. McAllister. The prints in that group were Albert Newsam's personal copies, and had been given to McAllister by Newsam near the end of his life. Many are proofs before letters and were annotated by the artist. More than 150 additional prints were acquired by the Historical Society at sales and auctions in the period between 1910 and 1919.

750 lithographic prints 1 drawing (11 boxes)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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P.S. Duval & Son

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P.S. Duval & Co.

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Neagle, John, 1796-1865

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John B. Neagle was a portrait painter. From the description of Notebooks, 1825-1850. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616046 John Neagle was a portrait painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia in the mid nineteenth century. While serving as an apprentice to Thomas Wilson, a "coach and ornamental painter," he began to consider painting as a career for himself. He studied under Thomas Sully, and in 1818 ventured to Lexington, Kentucky, with ...

Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871

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Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846

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Painter, portrait painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Henry Inman letter to James McMurtrie, 1841 June 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355152 From the description of Henry Inman letter to James McMurtrie, 1838 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220209493 Henry Inman (1801-1846), son of William and Sarah Inman, was born in Utica, N.Y. After an apprenticeship with the portrait painter, John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), he became a painter of portra...

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896

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Barnard Gratz (1738-1801) and his brother Michael (1740-1811) immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1750s. They were merchants active during the Revolutionary period, and who formed partnerships with the merchants David Franks (1720-1794) of New York and Philadelphia, and Joseph Simon (ca. 1712-1804) of Lancaster, PA. Michael Gratz's two sons, Simon (1773-1839) and Hyman (1776-1857), inherited their father's business. From the description of Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusiv...

Childs & Inman

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Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888

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Lehman & Duval Lithrs.

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Pendleton, Kearny & Childs

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Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864

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Albert Newsam (1809-1864) was a deaf artist who was born in Steubenville, OH, and orphaned at an early age. Through devious means he was taken to Philadelphia where, by good fortune, he was admitted in 1820 to the recently established Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Newsam had exhibited great talent as an artist while a young man, and became an apprentice with Philadelphia lithographer Col. Cephas G. Childs (1793-1871) in 1827, after which he became the principal artist with the ...

King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862

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Artist noted for his Indian portraits. Trained at the Royal Academy by Benjamin West, King in 1819 opened a studio in Washington, D.C. During 1821-1822 he began to paint portraits of visiting Indians for Thomas McKenney, superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. One of these first portraits was of Petalesharo (called Terrekitauahu by King), a Loup Pawnee chief who was visiting Washington as part of an Indian delegation led by Indian agent Benjamin O'Fallon. ...

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828

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