Word: rondel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Homer began submitting drawings to the illustrated papers, which quickly accepted them. He moved to New York in 1859. took his only formal instruction in drawing at the National Academy of Design, studied painting with Frenchman named Frederic Rondel, to whom he went every Saturday night for a month to learn how to lay out a palette. ' his brushes. In 1861 Harper's Weekly him to Washington to make drawings the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, r sent him on the Peninsular Campaign to make war sketches. Harper's readers soon began to look forward...