Word: silhouettist
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...shadowy as his art. He assured his Richmond neighbors that he was "an Englishman of good descent." Looking at his tangled hair and piercing eye, people thought he might be a gypsy. He had arrived in Manhattan at 17, with one Mr. Smith who set him up as a silhouettist on Broadway. Admission to the "Hubard Gallery" (50) had entitled visitors to "see the Exhibition and obtain a correct Likeness in Bust cut by Master Hubard who without the least aid from Drawing Machine or any kind of outline but merely by a glance at the Profile and with...
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