Author:
Mayer, Lance.
Imprint:Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2011.
Descriptionxiii, 249 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Provincial painters and European connections -- Benjamin West and his influence -- Americans in the old world : Copley, the Peales, and Trumbull -- Gilbert Stuart : The first American old master -- Washington Allston :" the painter poet" -- Sully, the old masters, and "tone" -- The "experimentalists" -- Thomas Sully : compiler and experimenter -- John Neagle : the methodical experimenter -- Rembrandt Peale : experimenter and entrepreneur -- Store-bought supplies and new materials in the 1830s,1840s, and 1850s -- Thomas Cole : "the best landscape painter in the world" -- William Sydney Mount : "stamped with an entirely American character".
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-239) and index.
