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[https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/an-early-american-art-entrepreneur-at-the-speed/ by The Magazine ANTIQUES 17/9/18] | [https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/an-early-american-art-entrepreneur-at-the-speed/ by The Magazine ANTIQUES 17/9/18] | ||
The advertisements he placed in local and regional newspapers described “elegant oil paintings by European and American masters in splendid gilt frames” that were ready “for immediate removal to the Parlor.” Let the Thomas Coles and Sanford Giffords of the world woo rich patrons, the artist Thomas Chambers went after aspiring members of the middle class, eager to have tokens of refinement in their home—a sweeping vista of Niagara Falls or the Bay of Naples, or a stirring depiction of a battle at sea. | The advertisements he placed in local and regional newspapers described “elegant oil paintings by European and American masters in splendid gilt frames” that were ready “for immediate removal to the Parlor.” Let the Thomas Coles and Sanford Giffords of the world woo rich patrons, the artist Thomas Chambers went after aspiring members of the middle class, eager to have tokens of refinement in their home—a sweeping vista of Niagara Falls or the Bay of Naples, or a stirring depiction of a battle at sea. | ||
=====African American Art===== | |||
[https://americanart.si.edu/art/highlights/african-american by SAAM] | |||
