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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
portrait of Ambrose White, Director of the Insurance Company of North America, 1839-1873
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Born in New Wilmington, then Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Samuel Waugh became one of the most well-known portrait painters of Philadelphia and was also famous for his Italian panoramas. Among his portrait subjects were Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
His father, James Waugh, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and later settled in New Wilmington where he laid out the town with his sons and opened the first general store. (New Wilmington is now part of Lawrence Co (showing 500 of 1670 characters). |
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