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Pennington, Estill Curtis. Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920. Univ. Pr. of Kentucky. Dec. 2010. c.256p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780813126128. $50. Flee ARTS
Roaming the frontiers in the beginnings of the 19th century were many itinerant artists--principally portraitists--struggling to make a living. They unknowingly provided a lasting visual record of the personalities and families working to bring a new society to the American landscape. An especially fecund area of activity by these mostly self-taught painters was the Ohio River Valley and Kentucky Bluegrass Region, where the lore of Daniel Boone and pride in the …