2 George Peter Alexander Healy Listed Artist Painting American Portrait (s) Mr/Mrs Ebenezar Norton Horsford Start Price USD 15,000.00 Current Price USD 15,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 15,000.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 28, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Berkeley Lake, Georgia See more about '2 George Peter Alexander Healy Listed Artist Painting' Description Are you ready to own a piece of fine art and American history?  We are offering these portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer (Eben) Norton Horsford done by listed American Artist George Peter Alexander Healy for $15,000.  Two portraits by an artist whom Abraham Lincoln sat for...The signatures have been tweaked in color to make them more legible.The Frick Art Research Library has the provenance and images of these paintings on file. George Peter Alexander Healy Born and raised in Boston to impoverished parents, George Healy was one of the best-known portrait painters of the mid to late 19th century. He also did occasional genre and historical subjects. His painting talent was recognized by society sitters and specifically by the renowned portraitist Thomas Sully. Portrait subjects included Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Franz Liszt, Louisa May Alcott and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. At age 17, Healy opened a portrait studio, and one of his early patrons was Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. At age 21 in 1834, Healy, supported by Sully and Otis, left for the first of many trips to Paris where he studied with Antoine Jean-Gros and with Thomas Couture, who became a close friend. He was in Paris for many years as a court portrait painter and gained an international reputation. He spent the remainder of his life traveling between the United States and Europe, making 35 Atlantic Ocean crossings. In 1855, he established a home in Chicago from which he frequently traveled to the East Coast and the South to paint portraits of leading politicians and aristocrats, completing about 100 of them a year. After the Civil War, he returned to Europe for 25 years but left at age 79 because of his disdain for the new turns of the Parisian art scene that included Impressionism. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE HE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/healy_george_pa.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07162b.htm 1024x768 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE HE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Mr. and Mrs. (Phoebe Gardiner) Horsford Ebenezer Norton HorsfordHORSFORD FAMILY PAPERS, 1681-1954 (1840-1893 bulk) Biographical Chronology of Eben Norton Horsford ENH = Eben Norton Horsford July 27, 1818 Born to Jerediah and Maria Chary Horsford at Moscow, NY. 1838 Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Civil Engineering. 1838-1840 Worked with James Hall on the Geographical Survey of New York State. 1840 -1844 Appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Albany Female Academy. 1840-1844 Delivered an annual course of lectures on chemistry at Newark College, Newark, Delaware. 1844-1846 ENH studied in Giessen, Germany under Justus von Liebig. 1847 Appointed Rumford Professor of Chemistry at the newly established Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. 1854 Became a partner in the George F. Wilson Company later renamed the Rumford Chemical Works in Providence, Rhode Island.ı Rumford Chemical Works produced Horsford's chemical discoveries including baking powder or yeast powder, acid phosphate and anti-chlorine. July 22, 1857 Married Phoebe Dalton Gardiner. 1863 Resigned from the Rumford Professorship to pursue interests in food chemistry, research and manufacturing. 1873 Appointed a member of the United States Scientific Commission for the Vienna Exposition.ı ENH, Lilian and Kate tour Europe. 1877 ENH became president of Wellesley Collegeıs Board of Visitors.ı He became a well known benefactor of the College endowing the library and supporting sabbatical leaves for professors. 1880 Traveled to Europe with Lilian and Cornelia and made an extended stay in Norway. 1880-1881 Traveled by private railroad car to California with H.F. Durant, Julian Taylor, Annie Longfellow, Lilian and Cornelia.ı Jan. 1, 1893 ENH died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.ı He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Horsford also was quite interested in visits to North America by Vikings, such as Leif Ericson.[2][3][4] A plaque resulting from Horsford's historical work still exists on Memorial Drive near Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE HE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:R7O_BgbxHW4J:www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mleifinma.html+horsford+erikson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us http://www.lib.rpi.edu/Archives/access/inventories/manuscripts/MC05_Horsford/MC05_index.html Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!