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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Landscape with Shepherd & Sheep
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A painter of landscapes and a minister, George Burton Drake was born August 3, 1870, in Eagle, New York. An only child after the death of his brother, he was enlisted early on to assist his father, whose injury during fighting the Civil War left him without the use of his right arm.
He took up painting while a student at Pike Academy, and learned working in oil, watercolor, as well as pencil sketching. Drake was also a gifted carpenter and tinsmith. He attended (showing 500 of 1457 characters). |
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