藝術家Edward Williams CLAY (1799-1857) 生平簡歷

出生地： Philadelphia

死亡地点： NYC

地址： Philadelphia, active through 1837; NYC

职业： Caricaturist, engraver and lithographer, etcher, portrait painter

评论： Clay studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar about 1825, but he soon abandoned law for art and achieved considerable notoriety in Philadelphia for his biting caricatures. He left Philadelphia for NYC in 1837 and shortly after went to Europe for further art study, but his eyesight failed and he was obliged to give up his artistic career. In his last years he held a minor public office in Delaware.

来源： G&W; DAB; Stauffer and Scharff and Westcott give the date of birth as 1792; Stokes, Hist. Prints; Peters, America on Stone, Nevins and Weitenkampf; repros. in Amer. Collector (Aug. 1936), 11; Antiques (April 1951), 300; Portfolio (Feb. 195l), 127, (Feb. 1952), 132, (Jan. 1955), 115.