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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
"Portrait of the Artist," c. 1880
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Frederick Schell was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He became a “special artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in 1862 and did drawings at Antietam in that year.
In 1863, Frank Leslie assigned him to General Ulysses S. Grant’s army at Vicksburg where he drew the desperate hand-to-hand combat of the second futile assault by Union troops on May 18 and detailed scenes of the subsequent siege of the city. When the Confederate Gener (showing 500 of 1592 characters). |
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