History of Doylestown Old And New From Its Settlement to the Close of the Nine
History of Doylestown Old And New From Its Settlement to the Close of the Nine
Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910
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His specialty was portrait painting at which he excelled. He exhibited such talent for this in his youth, his family sent him to SuUey to take lessons. A portrait he painted of himself, 1830, at the age of twenty-five, now hangs in the DuBois homestead, at Doylestown, the coloring apparently as fresh as when 268 DOVI. KSTOWN, OLD AM) NKW. the brush was first apphcil li the lri|), but, the nij^ht hii'orc he was to li-avc his mother said to him on retirinj^, "Samuel, I wt)uld sleep better if you ...were not going away, " whereupon the warm hearted son un|)acked his trunk and staid at home. He be- came noted as a portrait |)ainter and many of his j)ortraits are in possession of the old families of Bucks and adjoining counties. He is said to lia\e painted all the portraits that hung on the walls of the United States Mint, Philadelphia. In a local paper, of February ii, 1835, he announced that he had " taken a room in the house belong- ing to S.
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