Nanteuil, C Lestin a French artist noted for his contributions to sacred art, was born at Rome in 1813. He studied under Langlois and Ingres, and exhibited his first work, a Holy Family, in 1833, followed by A Beggar (1834), and Christ Healing the Sick (1837); but he was mainly employed as a lithographer, and in the course of about thirty years executed more than 2000 vignettes for literary and musical publications. Among his more recent paintings are,
The Temptation (1851): — The Vine (1853): — Souvenirs of the Past and The Kiss of Judas (1858), the latter after Van Dyck, of which he also produced an admirable engraving. He died at Paris in 1873.
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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