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LIVING AMERICAN ARTISTS. 599

LIVING AMERICAN ARTISTS.
NO. III.

1872

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WILLIAM PAGE.

WILLIAM PAGE, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.

THE story of the art-student of fifty years is not to be compressed into six pages of a magazine, even if the hero of it have not passed beyond the boundaries of his native State for food for thought of subjects for his pencil. How much less successful, then, the effort at compression, where the student's outer life has been one of travel and adventure: his inner life, one of changes no less notable. Hence with the task before him- to sketch the life of one of the oldest of living painters, whose story, if done justice to, would fill a goodly volume- the writer deems it timely to say here that the upmost which he can hope to accomplish in these brief biographies, is to make his readers somewhat better acquainted with the men to whom, from day to day, they pay homage, by admiration of their works. And this much more, perhaps, he can do: he can place on record here, for the benefit of the biographer of the future, certain facts in the histories of the men of whom he writes which may be relied upon, since that which he sets down, in this regard, comes directly from the men themselves- obtained in conversation

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Image is a etching of William Page