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REPORT ON THE PICTURE GALLERY. 115
VII. JULES EMILE SAINTIN, of New York, who painted the
excellent portrait of RAMSAY CROOKS, the early Rocky Mountain
adventurer, was born at Lemee, in the Department de l'Aisne,
France, August 14th, 1829. He early evinced a decided talent
for drawing, commencing as young as six years of age. When
not more than eleven years old, he left the primary school, and
devoted himself entirely to drawing, and, one year later, to
painting, under able and distinguished masters. He was only
thirteen years old when he was left to depend solely upon his
own efforts for a livelihood, and manfully overcame many diffi-
culties with which he had to contend, and which would have
appeared insurmountable to a person of less firmness of
purpose.
In 1844, he was received at the Academy of the Fine Arts,
in Paris; and during the ten following years, he received nearly
as many medals, for excelling in perspective, and portraits. In
1851, he came to America, and settled in New York, where he
is a member of the Academy of Design. Among the more
prominent of his productions, are-the Resurrection of Jairus'
Daughter-Christ expelling the Venders from the Temple-a
Zouave at the storming of the Malakoff-and, The Female Beggar
in New York. The number of portraits he has painted has been
immense. He has raised himself by his own genius, from pov-
erty and neglect, to a high rank in his chosen profession.
VIII. The portrait of JOHN W. QUINNEY, long the head
chief of the Wisconsin Stockbridges, is an original, painted in
1849, by A. HAMLIN; of whose career, however, me possess no
knowledge.
Such is the report we render of the last two years' additions
to the Society's Picture Gallery. If the friends of the Society,
the old pioneers and early public men of the State, but do justice
to themselves and the Society, we shall not have our hopes
disappointed as to the future increase of this interesting depart-
ment of Art and History blended.
Respectfully submitted,
S. H. CARPENTER, Chm'n.