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Second mandolins--J. P. Bigelow, J. Curtis, J. P. Galaki, W. F. Hubard, J. C. Jones, D. M. Osborne, G. Warner...
...OTIS D. HUBARD Virginia Beach...
...knows just when Hubard stopped scissoring and began painting, or when he parted from Mr. Smith. He did rather well as an itinerant portraitist, and even better after he had married into Virginia society and settled down in Richmond...
...patrons, Richmond Poetaster Mann Valentine (whose minor and forgotten writings he illustrated) tried to put the successful young painter under a microscope. Hubard, Valentine wrote, was "small, delicate looking, black hair, brown eyes, harelip, Roman nose, large mouth; strongly marked features:-when quiet- painful, sad, and thoughtful; when he laughs it is hysterical and rarely with a hearty guffah...
...almost as strange as his beginning. At 46, Hubard became obsessed with the notion that Houdon's marble bust of George Washington ought to be cast in bronze. He built his own foundry, spent seven years and all his savings to make six reproductions of the bust. At the start of the Civil War he tried to recoup his losses by turning his foundry into a Confederate arsenal. He began experimenting with explosives and blew himself...