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1) Robert Seldon Duncanson, born in Fayette, New York on 1821 to December 21, 1872 (50 to 51), was a 19th-century American landscapist of European and African ancestry.
2) His father's knowledge of carpentry and house painting was passed down to him. This knowledge would later allow Robert to develop as an artisan and later as an artist.
3) He had no formal art education, and thus had to teach himself by copying prints, copying engravings of European works, sketching from nature, and painting portraits.
4) Many of his paintings, such as Land of the Lotus Eaters, were influenced by works of British Romantic poets to include mythical themes. This attraction was developed traveling to Europe for 20 years.
5) His success as an artist is partially attributed to the many abolitionist patrons who supported him. They provided him with ample commissions, acquired his paintings, & financed his travels.
6) He was one of few African American landscape painters of the 19th century. By the 1860s, he was proclaimed to be the "greatest landscape painter in the West" by the American Press & London newspapers.
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