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Birth
1826 (Greenville, Ohio)
Death
1914 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Lived/Active
Indiana/Ohio
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still life, portrait and landscape painting
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A painter who lived in Indiana, Ohio and Minneapolis, Barton Hays began his career as a portrait painter in Wingate, Covington, and Attica, Ohio. In Attica, he also painted two panoramas relating to the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
After moving to Indianapolis, he went into partnership with daguerreotypist William Runnion and continued to paint portraits, becoming the city's leading painter of that subject. He was also a teacher at Mclean's Female Seminary, and William Merritt Chase was one (showing 500 of 4123 characters). |
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