Charles Ackers is primarily known as Charles Akers
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from Auction House Records. Portrait of Mary Elisabeth Mason Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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| The brother of sculptor Benjamin Akers, Charles Akers was a sculptor and crayon portraitist who studied in Rome, Italy with his brother in the mid 1850s. He returned to New York City and established a studio and in the 1870s moved to Waterbury, Connecticut.
Source: Grove and Wallace, "Dictionary of Artists in America" |
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