Caroline Ransom was born in Newark, Ohio and died in Washington, D.C. She was primarily a portraitist, but that was thrust upon her by necessity, as she definitely had higher aspirations. She went to New York City to study landscape with Asher B. Durand who told her that her "talents were better suited to portraiture" (my paraphrase).
Some of her subjects were Alexander Hamilton (in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury), James Garfield, Gen. George Thomas (a large equestrian portr (showing 500 of 1737 characters). |
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