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 658 Painting Trumbull, in New York. On the completion of his studies, he established himself as a painter in that city, where, with the exception of several years spent in the Western part of the State, he chiefly resided. He is said to have executed nearly seven hundred portraits, many of which are highly praised for their representation of individual character. Of these the acknowledged masterpiece is that of Fletcher Harper, which was selected to represent American portraiture in the Paris Exhibition. George A. Baker (1821 — 1880) is known for the beauty of his female portraits. Louis Remy Mignot (1831 — 1871), the landscape painter, lived some part of his life in New York ; he then removed to South Carolina, and subsequently, at the outbreak of the Civil War, took up his residence in England, though he paid visits to his native land. He exhibited in the Royal Academy from time to time, and many of his works are in England. One of his best pictures is Snow in Hyde Park. Two foreigners, who settled in America, executed many landscapes and sea-pieces of considerable merit — M. F. H. de Haas (1832—1880), a native of Rotterdam, where he had been appointed painter to the Dutch Navy ; and Johann Erik Christian Petersen (1839 — 1874), a native of Copenhagen, where he first studied art, who settled in America in 1865 — worked, the former in New York, the latter in Boston. J. B. Irving (1826 — 1877), a pupil of Leutze, painted genre subjects in a French manner. One of his best works is The End of the Game. William Henry Furness (1827 — 1867), of Philadel- phia, was one of the most successful portrait painters