HENRY

henry, edward lamson (1841- ), american genre painter, was born in charleston, south carolina, on the 12th of january 1841. he was a pupil of the schools of the pennsylvania academy of fine arts in philadelphia, and of gleyre and courbet in paris, and in 1870 was elected to the national academy of design, new york. as a painter of colonial and early american themes and incidents of rural life, he displays a quaint humour and a profound knowledge of human nature. among his best-known compositions are some of early railroad travel, incidents of stage coach and canal boat journeys, rendered with much detail on a minute scale.