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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Full Length Portrait of a Youong Girl
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Born in North Adams, Massachusetts, Darby was a self-taught portrait painter, who nevertheless received some instruction from itinerant painters. He may have painted in oils as early as 1842. His painting of the Reverend John Atwood and His Family in the Museum of Fine Arts iin Here Darby’s style is that of a determined New England limner.
In 1847 Darby became a teacher at the South Carolina Female College in Barhamville, returning North soon thereafter, to live in New York City (showing 500 of 2313 characters). |
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