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In late 1857 New Yorkers had the rare privilege of viewing a major exhibition now commonly known as the American Exhibition of English Art. (1) The press greeted the event, which opened at the National Academy of Design on October 20, enthusiastically, especially the reviewer for the Evening Post, who passionately outlined the value of attending the exhibition:
Our means of acquiring even a slight knowledge of... [English art] indeed have been so Jew that, to untravelled persons, the present exhibition must reveal a mine of art, of whose richness, however familiarized it may have become to them by tradition or repute, they knew almost nothing....German, French, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The English Victorian Nude in the United States.