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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the leading figure in American cultural life of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and famous personalities in the world at his death in 1882. He is a traveler, linguist, and a romantic who identified with the great tradition of European literature and thought. At the same time, he is rooted in American life and history, which charged his imagination with the theme of untested and ambitious to succeed him.

Four pages to track major developments in Longfellow’s life from his youth in Portland where he first showed literary talent, through the years learning languages in Europe and taught at Bowdoin College, to move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he taught at Harvard, married Fanny Appleton, become a father, and wrote many of the most enduring poems, and finally be the year both as a poet-brother celebrity and grieving widower.

Information on the following pages largely taken from Longfellow: A Life rediscovered by Charles Calhoun and from an essay by Richard D’Abate, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Man of Letters” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and His Portland Home. For more information about these and other sources, please refer to the bibliography.

It is reasonable to speculate that Ann Hall Longfellow miniature painted her in 1845 while looking Franquinet print, not a poet.

Figure awkwardly implies a tendency to idealize overextension: works from the print and not the subject of life, he was given as a poet of middle age overweight children.

Hall nonetheless important miniaturist of New England, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, trained in Newport and New York City.

ivory small in relation to a broad range of fingerprint-based Franquinet shows two cultural phenomena. One, the popularity of Longfellow’s fast-growing, and, two, new print technology was treated demand for celebrity pictures.

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As the Hudson Valley has celebrated the 400th anniversary of its discovery by Henry Hudson in a Dutch expedition, art exhibitions focusing on contemporary Dutch culture have been especially rich. “Fendry Ekel — The Witness,” a show of a dozen works in its final week at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, is among them.

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1971, Mr. Ekel, who has never exhibited before in this country, lives in Amsterdam, where he belongs to an artists’ collective that includes the sculptor Folkert de Jong. Mr. Ekel is primarily a painter, producing colorful works on paper that mix media and techniques, including gouache, acrylic painting and drawing.

Each of the paintings being shown here is well crafted and attractively presented in the mezzanine gallery. While there is nothing especially innovative about the style — a loose expressionistic realism — the content gives you pause for thought, and the economical use of symbolic imagery gives the pictures raw visual force.

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