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of the Pennsylvania Historical society. He was married to Sarah, daughter of Ignatius Sargent nf Boston. Among his books are: History of an E.i'}}edHioii against Fort Ditqiicsne in 1775 under Mtijor-Giiieral Draddock, edited from Original Manuscripts (IS.w); The Loyalist Poetry of the iiei'olution (IS.")?); The Jonrmd of the General Meeting of the Cincinnati (\Sr}S); L<vjal Verses of Joseph Stanshnry ami Dr. Jonathan Odell (1860); Life and Career of Ma j. John Aftdre (1^61); Les Etats Confed^rH et de VEse.avage (1864), and an unfinished catalogue of classified books concerning Amt-rica. He died in Paris, France, Mayl8, 1870.

SARTAIN, Emily, artist, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa.: daugliter of Jolinand Susannah Long- mate (Swaine) Sartain. Slie studied engraving un- der her father, and oil iiaintingat the Pennsylva- nia Academy of Fine Arts, under Cliristian SchiJs- sele. Isfil-Tl, and under Evariste Lnminais, at Paris. France, 1871-75. Slie engraved many plates in mezztvtint, including numerous portraits for iKJok illustration, and executed some large etcliings f<>r framing. She exhibited oil paint- ings at the Paris Salon in 187.") and 1883; received a medal at the Centennial exiiibition of 187r): honorable mention at tiie Pan-American exhibi- tion of 1901, and was awarded the Marj' Smith prize by the Penn.sylvania Academy in 1881 and 13S3 for the he-it painting by a woman. She was art editor of Our Continent. 1881-83; a member of the jury of awards of the Art Department, Wr>rld's Columbian exposition, 1893. and official delegate from the U.S. government to the Inter- national Congress on Instruction in Drawing, lield at Paris in 1900. From 1886 she served as principal of the Philadelpiiia School of Design for Women.

SARTAIN, John, artist, was born in London, England. Oct. 24, 1808. He attended private schools in London but left school in 1818, and in 1820 Ijecame assistant to Signor Mortram, the pyrotechnist and scene painter at the Covent CJarden theatre. In 1822 he engaged as appren- tice to an engraver, and in 1823 received the order for eighteen .steel plates for the illustrations of the early Florentine sciiool of painters. He studied designing in water colorsunder Varley and Rich- ter, and painting in oils under Joshua Shaw and De Franca. He was married to Susannah Long- mate Swain, daughter of John Swain, his first master in steel engraving. He removed to Amer- ica in 1830; settled in Philadelithia and was the first to introduce into America the mezzotint style of engraving. He also engaged in painting portraits in oils and miniatures on ivory, design- ing bank-note vignettes and in making wood cuts for lK»ok illustration. In 1843 he Ixmght Camj)- bell's Foreign Scmi-Monthly Magazine, which he e lited. and later he engraved the plates for the

Eclectic Muxenm. In 1848 he purcliased a half interest in the Union Magazine, of New \ork. which he removed to Philadelphia, and changed the name to Sartain's Union Magazine. He pur- chased for his magazine Agassiz's first contribu- tion to American current literature, entitled " A Period in the History of Our Planet,'" which he published in 1843, and received many contribu- tions from Edgar Allan Poe, including: ''The Bells." He was a member of the Artists Fund society, the School of Design for Women. w;is a director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Pliila- delphia, and was elected a member of the Society Artes in Amicitiae in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1862. He had charge of the Art department at the Centennial exhibition at Piiiladtlpiiia, and of the American exhibit in London in isb7. Among his most notable engravings are llie County Election in Missouri, after Bingham (1855); Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Gilmor of Baltimore, after Sir Thomas Lawrence; David Paul Broicn. after John Neagle; Christ Rejected, after Benja- min West (1802); Men of Progress, American Inventors (1862); Zeesberger, Preaching to the Indians at Gosgoshimk {18Q2); The Iron Worker and King Solomon (1876); John Knox and Mary Queen of Scots, after Leutze, Homestead of Henry Clay, after Hamilton and Edwin Forrest, and The Battle of Gettysburg, after Peter F. Rother- mel. He designed several monuments including one to Washington, one to Lafayette and two medallion heads for monuments in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. He died in Phila- delphia. Pa., bet. 25. 1897.

SARTAIN, Samuel, engraver, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 8, 1830; eldest son of John (q.v.) and Susannah Longmate (Swain) Sartain. He studied under his father, and at the Pennsyl- vania Academy of Fine Arts, and devoted himself to engraving on steel. He was a trustee of the Artists Fund society and a member of the board of managers and treasurer of the Franklin Insti- tute. He received a silver medal at an exhibi- tion of the Franklin Institute and an " honorable mention " with special approbation at the World's Fair, New York. Among his best known en- gravings are, Clear the Track, after C. Schucssele (1854); Christ Blessing Little Children, after Sir Charles Locke; Eastlake (1861); Oneofthe Chosen, after Guy; Christ Stilling the Tempest, after Hamilton; Song of the Angels, after Thomas Jloran; Evangeline, after Thomas Faed and A Pompeian Water Carrier after Millet. His por- traits include, Benjamin West, Thomas Sully and John Nagle.

SARTAIN, William, artist, was born in Phil- adelpiiia. Pa.. Nov. 21, 1843; son of John and Susannah Longmate (Swaine) Sartain. He at- tended the Philadelphia High school; studied