Portrait of Senator Charles Sumner
by William Page (US 1811 - 1885)
Painting
William Page "had little formal education and entered the law office of the secretary of the American Academy in New York in 1825, where his drawings were seen by its President, John Trumbull. After studying the Academy's collection of casts of antique statues, Page became a student of Samuel F. B. Morse, who interested him in historical subjects as well as religion. Page briefly enrolled at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, to study for the ministry but later returned to an artistic career, working successively in Amherst, Rochester, Albany and New York."
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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