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Paintbrush for hire : the travels of James and Emma S. Cameron, 1840-1900 / Frederick C. Moffatt

Author
Moffatt, Frederick C.
Published
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xii, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction: finding James Cameron -- Philadelphia freedoms -- Fallen Italy -- America's eastern climes, 1849-1856 -- Knoxville, Tennessee, 1856 -- Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Augusta, Georgia, 1856-1857 -- Lookout Mountain, 1857 -- Mississippi an the Deep South, 1857-1858 -- Return to Lookout Mountain, 1858 -- Nashville, 1858-1859 -- The Whiteside family portrait and Cameron Hill, 1859-1860 -- Emma's exile, 169 -- Nashville II, 1863-1867 -- Missionaries for hire: the Camerons in Maine and California, 1868-1881.
Summary
Throughout the nineteenth-century, itinerant painters traveled the length and breadth of Europe and American in search of patronage. In the company of the his crupulous wife, Emma S. Cameron (1825?1907), the Scots-born James Cameron (1816?1882) sought to fulfill his ambitious dream of becoming an artist. Working primarily as a landscapist and portraitist?he was also an inventor, a missionary, an ordained minister, a land agent, farmer, clothing merchant, and Sunday school teacher?Cameron produced a small collection of paintings during the ten-year period the couple resided in East Tennessee and the American South.
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ISBN
9781621903659
1621903656
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-349) and index.
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