Ralph E. W. Earl and the Politics of Portraiture
by
Rachel Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson’s personal artist from 1817 until Earl’s death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson’s...