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Excerpt from Early American Paintings: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917
Concerning the second group - Portrait painters of the Revolutionary and early Constitutional period - facts are more numerous. With the increase of population and wealth, the customs of the people became more luxurious. With the increased ease of travel many artists attained more than a local in uence and reputation. Records were kept with greater frequency so that the details of their lives and work are many and exact.
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