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Felix O C Darley First Artist of His Time
Elmo Scott Watson chronicles Felix Octavius Carr Darley born 1822 in Philadelphia who became a versatile American illustrator and painter. He shaped American pictorial life from book illustrations to Civil War scenes and historical tableaux, influencing later artists and lending enduring images to national memory.
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Elmo Scott Watson LI Une
Philadelphia
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Darley
John Darley
America
Saturday Museum
Leatherstocking
Cooper
F. O. C. Darley
Columbia
Felix Octavius
Carr Darley
E. W Kemble
A. B. Frost
Oliver Herford
Ichabod Crane
New York
American Art Union
Washington Irving
American Society of Painters In
Artists Fund Society of New York
National Academy of Design
Longfellow
Miles Standish
Liberty
Lexington
Washington
Monmouth
Wyoming Valley
Pennsylvania
Harold Frederic
Robert W. Chambers
Walter D. Edmonds
Great
Plains
West
Matthew Brady
Brady
Felix Daley
Sherman
North
Dahlgren
Fredericksburg
Europe
Rome
Claymont
Del
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr
Yale University Press
England
France