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"[[UNDERLINE]] MR. QUIDOR [[/UNDERLINE]] WAS A PUPIL OF JOHN WESLEY JARVIS. HE HAD PAINTED SEVERAL FANCY SUBJECTS WITH CLEVERNESS. [[marginal note]] RIP VAN WINKLE REACHES THE GNOMES [[/marginal note]]. HIS PICTURE OF RIP VAN WINKLE HAS MERIT OF NO ORDINARY KIND...." [[marginal note]] THE RETURN OF RIP VAN WINKLE. CA. 1839 [[/marginal note]]

THEN QUIDOR DROPS OUT OF SIGHT, FOR OVER A CENTURY, AS FAR AS SERIOUS CRITICAL OR HISTORICAL EVALUATION IS CONCERNED.

NEGLECTED ALSO ARE THE ARTISTS OF SOMEWHAT LESSER STATURE AND INTEREST, LIKE WOODVILLE, WHOSE [[UNDERLINE]] WAR NEWS FROM MEXICO [[/UNDERLINE]] [[marginal note]] WAR NEWS FROM MEXICO 1848 [[/marginal note]], CARRIES ON [[STRIKE THROUGH]] THE [[/STRIKE THROUGH]] GENRE [[STRIKE THROUGH]] SCHOOL'S [[/STRIKE THROUGH]] SURFACE FACILITY AND SKILL. OF HIME TUCKERMAN WROTE IN 1867 THAT HIS WORK WAS 

"....ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL ARTISTIC ABILITY DEVELOPED IN A LIMITED WAY, AND FOR A BRIEF PERIOD, YET SUGGESTIVE OF THE HIGHEST EXCELLENCE...."

OF THE EXTRAORDINARILY INTERESTING DAVID G. BLYTHE, LITTLE IS KNOWN EXCEPT HIS PAINTINGS. [[marginal note]] JANUARY BILLS 1859 [[/marginal note]] JANUARY BILLS POSSESSES A MACABRE QUALITY WHICH WOULD COME OUT THE PROTO-SURREALISM OF ROWLANDSON. WHILE [[UNDERLINE]] GENERAL DOUBLEDAY CROSSING THE POTOMAC [[/UNDERLINE]] [[marginal note]] GENERAL DOUBLEDAY CROSSING THE POTOMAC 1863 [[/marginal note]] FOLLOWS IN THE MAIN