1872 Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men Women Lincoln 119 Portraits Illustrated 2v



An illustrated gallery of famous men and women in Europe and America including authors, politicians, and military figures.



Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816 – 1878) was an American publisher and biographer. He was associated with the literary side of the Young America movement in New York.



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Main author: Evert A Duyckinck



Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies



Published: New York, Johnson, Fry and Co., [©1872-74].



Language: English



Notes & contents:

1st edition

2 volumes filled with portraits

Illustrated with 46 + 73 engravings

Volume I

SAMUEL JOHNSON

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

HANNAH MORE

EDWARD GIBBON

MARIE ANTOINETTE

DAVID GARRICK

GEORGE WASHINGTON

MADAME DARBLAY

HENRY GRATTAN

SARAH VAN BRUGH JAY

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

ROBERT FULTON 360

MADAME DE STAEL

HORATIO NELSON

JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN

JANE AUSTEN

EDMUND BURKE

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

MARTHA WASHINGTON

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

ROBERT BURNS

CHARLOTTE CORDAY

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE

JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE

ABIGAIL ADAMS

GILBERTMOTIER DE LAFAYETTE

THOMAS JEFFERSON

MARIA EDGEWORTH

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

GEORGE STEPHENSON

SARAH SIDDONS

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

DOROTHY PAYNE MADISON

LORD BYRON

ELIZABETH FRY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

DUKE OF WELLINGTON

THOMAS MOORE

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY

Volume II

DANIEL OCONNELL

ANNA JAMESON

JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL

LORD PALMERSTON

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

CAMILLO BENSO DI CAVOUR

RICHARD COBDEN

CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK

PRINCE ALBERT

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

BENITO JUAREZ

DANIEL WEBSTER

FREDERIKA BREMER

WASHINGTON IRVING

VICTOR EMANUEL

SYDNEY, LADY MORGAN

MICHAEL FARADAY

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

ALICE CARY

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN

WILLIAM I, EMPEROR OF GERMANY

MARY SOMERVILLE

BARON JUSTUS VON LIEBIG

HENRY CLAY

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

LORD LYTTON

OTTON VON BISMARCK

MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI

GEORGE PEABODY

NAPOLEON III

EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON

THOMAS CHALMERS

FRANCOIS PG GUIZOT

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

COUNT VON MOLTKE

SAMUEL FB MORSE

HARRIET MARTINEAU

CHARLES DICKENS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD

WILLIAM WEART GLADSTONE

LOUIS ADLOPHE THIERS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

ROBERT EDWARD LEE

ELIZA COOK

WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD

ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA

JENNY LIND GOLDSCHMIDT

JOHN BRIGHT

THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON

ROSA BONHEUR

DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS

HIRAM POWERS

LOUIS AGASSIZ

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

ALFRED TENNYSON

ULYSSES S GRANT

CHARLOTE SAUNDERS CUSHMAN

PIUS THE NINTH

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

EDWIN BOOTH

EMPRESS EUGENIE

HENRY WARD BEECHER

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

HARRIET HOSMER

JOSEPH GARIBALDI

FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE



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Evert Augustus Duyckinck (pronounced DIE-KINK) (November 23, 1816 – August 13, 1878) was an American publisher and biographer. He was associated with the literary side of the Young America movement in New York.[1][2]

Contents [hide]

1Biography

2Letter to Lincoln

3Legacy and criticism

4Honors and memberships

5New York Historical Society biographies

6References

7Further reading

Biography[edit]

He was born on November 23, 1816, in New York City to Evert Duyckinck, a publisher.[1][3]

Evert the younger graduated from Columbia College, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society, in 1835. He then studied law with John Anthon, and was admitted to the bar in 1837.[1] He spent the next year in Europe. Before he went abroad he wrote articles on the poet George Crabbe, the works of George Herbert, and Oliver Goldsmith, for the New York Review.[4] In 1840 he started a monthly magazine with Cornelius Mathews called Arcturus, which ran until 1842. The New York Tribune commented on the important partnership by referring to Duyckinck and Mathews as "the Castor and Pollux of Literature—the Gemini of the literary Zodiac".[5] Duyckinck wrote articles on other authors while at home and in Europe. Between 1844 and 1846, Evert became the literary editor of John L. OSullivans The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which moved from Washington D.C. to New York in 1840.

On April 22, 1840 in Connecticut he married Margaret Wolfe Panton, and they had as their children: Evert Augustus Duyckinck II, George Duyckinck, and Henry Duyckinck (1843-1870). All of his children died when they were young.[1]

In 1845, he assisted Edgar Allan Poe in printing his Tales collection and selected which stories to include. The collection was a critical success, though Poe was somewhat disappointed by Duyckincks choices.[6] In 1847 he became the editor of The Literary World, a weekly review of books written with his brother George Long Duyckinck until 1853.[7] The two brothers became the unofficial leaders of the New York literary scene in the 1840s into the 1850s.[4]

In 1854 the brothers were again united in the preparation of The Cyclopaedia of American Literature (2 vols., New York, 1855; enlarged eds., 1865 and 1875). He published Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith, with a memoir (New York, 1856); an American edition of Willroots Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1858). Immediately after the death of Washington Irving, Duyckinck gathered together and published in one volume a collection of anecdotes and traits of the author, under the title of Irvingiana (1859); History of the War for the Union (3 vols., 18615); Memorials of John Allan (1864); Poems relating to the American Revolution, with Memoirs of the Authors (1865); Poems of Philip Freneau, with notes and a memoir (1865); National Gallery of Eminent Americans (2 vols., 1866); History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (4 vols., 1870); and an extensive series of Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (2 vols., 18734). His last literary work was the preparation, with William Cullen Bryant, of an edition of William Shakespeare.

He died on August 13, 1878 in New York City, New York.[8]

Letter to Lincoln[edit]

On 18 February 1865, author Duyckinck sent President Abraham Lincoln a letter. Duyckinck signed the letter “Asmodeus”, with his initials below his pseudonym. His letter enclosed a newspaper clipping about an inappropriate joke allegedly told by Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference. The purpose of Duyckincks letter was to advise Lincoln of “an important omission” about the history of the conference. He advised that the newspaper clipping be added to the “Archives of the Nation”.[9]

Legacy and criticism[edit]



Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Duyckinck regarding Melville

In January 1879, a meeting in his memory was held by the New York historical society, and a biographical sketch of Duyckinck was read by William Allen Butler.

Herman Melville, a close friend of Duyckincks with whom he corresponded often, refers in his book Mardi (1849) to Duyckincks highbrow magazine Arcturus by naming a ship in the book Arcturion. Referring to it as "exceedingly dull", the author notes the low literary level of its crew.[4] Duyckinck also garnered a mention in James Russell Lowells A Fable for Critics (1848) with the lines, "Good-day, Mr. Duyckinck, I am happy to meet / With a scholar so ripe and a critic so neat".[10] Charles Frederick Briggs noted Duyckincks ability in the "art of puffing", heavy praise for works that did not necessarily merit it.[11] Edwin Percy Whipple chidingly called Duyckinck "the most Bostonian of New-Yorkers".[10] William Allen Butler noted that his taste in literature was too high for most readers: "While Duyckinck was the most genial of companions, and the most impartial of critics, he was too much of a recluse, buried in his books, almost solitary in life, and entirely removed from the circle of worldly and fashionable life"..

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