1. John Sartain was an English-born American artist who pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States.
19 Facts About John Sartain
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John Sartain learned line engraving, and produced several of the plates in William Young Ottley's Early Florentine School.
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John Sartain studied painting under John Varley and Henry James Richter.
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John Sartain had an interest at the same time in the Eclectic Museum, for which, later, when John H Agnew was alone in charge, he simply engraved the plates.
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John Sartain transferred it to Philadelphia, where it was renamed Sartain's Union Magazine, and from 1849 to 1852 he published it with Graham.
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John Sartain was a colleague and friend of Edgar Allan Poe.
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John Sartain asked why anyone would want to kill him, Poe answered it was "a woman trouble".
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John Sartain's published the first authorized printing of Annabel Lee, posthumously.
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John Sartain held various offices in the Artists' Fund Society, the School of Design for Women, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was actively connected with other educational institutions in the city.
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John Sartain had charge of the art department of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, in 1876.
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John Sartain was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1897.
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John Sartain's body was not claimed and he and approximately 20,000 other unclaimed bodies were re-interred in a large mass grave at Lawnview Cemetery.
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John Sartain married Susannah Longmate Swaine and they had eight children.
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Samuel, who was an engraver; Henry ; William ; and Emily John Sartain pursued careers as artists.
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Emily John Sartain first practised art as an engraver under her father.
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John Sartain studied at the Pennsylvania Academy under Christian Schussele, and then, until 1875, with Evariste Vital Luminais in Paris.
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William John Sartain engraved under his father's supervision until he was about 24.
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John Sartain then went to Paris, where he studied with Leon Bonnat.
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John Sartain was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.