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Edmund Bensell

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Edmund Birckhead Bensell (1842 - 1894) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Edmund Bensell is known for Book illustrations, landscape, genre paintings.

Edmund Birckhead Bensell was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  He actively exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy, the Artist's Fund Society, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club, of which he was one of the original six founders.  He and his artist brother, George Bensell, fostered the enthusiastic feeling at the Club for anti-slavery and painted banners for the Negro headquarters.  He also helped illustrate William Still's book, The Underground Rail Road.

Bensell is best known for his pen and ink drawings, most notably for the forty illustrations of Shakespeare made for the publisher Charles F. Hazeltine.  Bensell also illustrated for Scribner & Sons, Lippincott & Co., J.M. Stoddard & Co., and Harper & Bros.  Among his illustrated books are Ting-A-Ling by Frank Stockton, The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope, and Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing by Cha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1419 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Edmund Bensell

   Publications  Book References:  13
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edmund Bensell
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review American Master Drawing February 1995 Murray, Mary E Yes
13 Book References for Edmund Bensell
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1982 Dooley, John (Foreward) Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia, 1682-1982 30 No
1980 Boston Public Library The Artist and the Child Exhibition of Children's Books
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1968 Hamilton, Sinclair (Intro) Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 1670-1870 0 No
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