Catalogue Of An Exhibition Of Colonial Portraits Scholars Choice Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Colonial Portraits: New York, November 6 to December 31, MCMXI John watson (1685? A Scotch man, came to the colonies in 1715 and settled at Perth Amboy, then the capital of New Jer sey. After his first visit he returned to Europe and brought back to his adopted country a number of paintings, which thus formed the first collection of pictures in this country. His own work consisted of portraits and ideal heads of kings and heroes, but Dunlap, writing in 1834, said even then, None of the pictures brought into this country or painted by him can now be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.