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TitleBenjamin Silliman

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainting

Creation date1825

Object typePainter

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsScientific discoveries in artPortait painting, AmericanMen--Portraits

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Introduction: The Popularity of Geology

Rebecca Bedell

The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875

~GEOLOGY REIGNED through much of the nineteenth century as America’s most “fashionable” science. Between 1820 and 1870, men and women across the country avidly pursued an interest in the field. They pushed their way into crowded lecture halls to hear talks by prominent geologists; they bought geological textbooks, and they scoured the...

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Rebecca Bedell

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.004

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Chapter subject tags:Natural historyLandscape painting, AmericanGeologyLandscape drawing, AmericanScientific discoveries in art

Catalogue: Late Portraits

Helen A. Cooper

John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter

This was probably Trumbull’s first portrait of his wife, painted soon after their marriage on October 1, 1800...

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Helen A. Cooper

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.156-172

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00071.016

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Chapter subject tags:Trumbull, John, 1756-1843United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Pictorial worksPainting, Modern--18th century--HistoryPortraits

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