Records of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts [microform], 1805-1955.

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Records of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts [microform], 1805-1955.

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Records from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, including minutes of board meetings, scrapbooks (containing mostly newspaper and magazine clippings), exhibition catalogs, catalogs of the permanent collection, correspondence, some financial records, student registers, auction catalogs, biographical files on American artists, etc. Also filmed was PAFA's J. R. Lambdin collection of pamphlets on the fine arts, particularly relating to American art institutions. Also found is a collection of engraved portraits done by John Sartain. These materials were originally filmed for the Archives of American Art in 1955.

46 microfilm reels.

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Sartain, John, 1808-1897

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Engraver, portrait and miniature painter John Sartain was born in London in 1808 and moved to the United States in 1830 after a seven year apprenticeship to London engraver John Swaine. Besides his banknote and portrait engraving, Sartain was noted for his magazine engravings. In 1849 he began his own magazine, entitled Sartain's Union Magazine of Letters and Art, but ceased its publication three years later due to financial troubles. Sartain was also the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts

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Art school; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From the description of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition catalog, 1921 and 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553237 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is an art academy and museum, founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, Pa. Exhibitions and classes began in 1811. Notable academy instructors and students have included Thomas Eakins, Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Violet Oakley, Henry O. Tanner, Rembra...