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George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) 
Professions: Painter
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George Caleb Bingham 1811-1879 , Landscape: Rural Scenery oil on canvas
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After George Caleb Bingham THE COUNTY ELECTION Hand-colored engraving, mezzotint and roulette
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*GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM (1811-1879)
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AFTER GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM (1811 - 1879)
Biography: Bingham
(b Augusta County, VA, 20 March 1811; d Kansas City, MO, 7 July 1879). American painter. Raised in rural Franklin County, MO, Bingham experienced from an early age the scenes on the major western rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi, that inspired his development as a major genre painter. During his apprenticeship to a cabinetmaker, he met the itinerant portrait painter Chester Harding, who turned Bingham’s attention to art. Teaching himself to draw and compose from art instruction books and engravings, the only resources available in the frontier territories, Bingham began painting portraits as early as 1834. The style of these works is provincial but notable for its sharpness, clear light and competent handling of paint.
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