A VETERAN ARTIST.
At. Henri Joseph Harpigmes, sole survivor of the famous school of landscape painters of the first half of the nineteenth century, now m his ninetieth year, has presented one of his rare paintings to the United States Museum at Washington. , It is one of a collection of eighty-two pictures and sketches which has recently been installed in the museum by the citizens of the French Republic as a token of their appreciation of the sympathetic efforts of American citizens toward relieving the distress caused by the European war. M. 'Harpignies is a native of Valenciennes, was educated m Paris, and studied art for two years in Italy. He first exhibited in the Salon in 1853. In 1860 he accompanied Corot to Italy. He was made a member of the Legion of Honour in 1875, and was awarded the Medaille d'Honneur of the Salon in 1897.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 14
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148A VETERAN ARTIST. Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 14
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