Edward Virginius Valentine was born in Richmond on November 12, 1838 to Mann Satterwhite Valentine, a successful merchant, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Mosby. The youngest of nine children, Edward had talent that was revealed early on, and young “Ned” won his first art award at the age of seventeen, for a bust of the Apollo Belvedere exhibited at the Mechanics Institute Fair in Richmond.
In 1856, he studied human anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia and received instructi (showing 500 of 1339 characters). |
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