Doyen, Gabriel Francois an eminent French painter, was born at Paris in 1726, and at the age of twenty gained the grand prize of the Royal Academy. In 1748 he went to Rome, and there studied the works of the great masters. He afterwards visited Venice, Bologna, and Parma, and after his return to Paris, in 1753, he executed his celebrated picture, representing A Group of Persons Attacked by the Plague, for the Church of St. Roch, and painted the chapel of St. Gregoryv aux-Invalides. He died at St. Petersburg, June 5, 1806. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More