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[[note]] [Scribners. Aug. 1871] [[/note]]

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[[/note]] D. O'C Townley [[/note]]

LIVING AMERICAN ARTISTS.      
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LIVING AMERICAN ARTISTS.
NO. 11.

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HENRY PETERS GRAY

HENRY PETERS GRAY, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY 
 Few men have attained reputation and easy circumstances with so little apparent effort as the subject of the present sketch-Henry Peters Gray,-at this writing the President of the National Academy of Design, and ranking fairly among the first of living portrait painters. 
 Mr. Gray is the son of George W. Gray, a New York merchant , and grandson, on his mother's side, of Mr. Harry Peters, whose farm forty-five years ago, later the site of Vaux-hall Gardens, embraced many acres east of Broadway, the homestead occupying the position of the dwelling now opposite the New