Provincial painters and European connections
Banjamin West and his influence
Americans in the old world: Copley, the Peales, and Trumbull
Gilbert Stuart: The first American old master
Washington Allston:" the painter poet"
Sully, the old masters, and "tone"
Thoms Sully: compiler and experimenter
John Neagle: the methodical experimenter
Rembrandt Peale: experimenter and entrepeneur
Store-bought supplies and new materials in the 1830's,1840's, and 1850's
Thomas Cole: "the best landscape painter in the world"
William Sydney Mount: "stamped with an entirely american character".
