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A Dutch Girl by Theodore Grust and The Tired
Gleaners by Frederick Morgan are from the book Art And
Artists Of All Nations - published in 1895. Theodore Grust: born 27 August 1859 in Meissen, Germany.
A painter best known for small town genre. He attend the Dresden
Academy and was a pupil of Theodore Grosses. During his life
he travelled to Munich, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1909
he returned to Meissen and was instumental in the preservation
of the Porzellan-Manufaktur, Meissen, a porcelain factory which
is world famous and the first porcelain manufactory in Europe,
founded in 1710 in the late Gothic Albrechtburg Castle. There
are several websites that mention Frederick Morgan or have some prints of his art for sale. It
is very hard to find anything of Grust.
Katherine Parr is from the book The Queens Of
England. It was written by Alice Strickland and published
in 1851. There is some information on Jospeh Wright, the artist,
on the internet.
Fort Sumter is from The
Civil War Through the Camera and is also in the Descendants
of David Evans.
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