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John Sartain (October 24, 1808 – October 25, 1897) was an artist who pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. ==Biography== John Sartain was born in London, England. He learned line engraving, and produced several of the plates in William Young Ottley's ''Early Florentine School'' (1826). In 1828, he began to make mezzotints. He studied painting under John Varley and Henry James Richter. In 1830, at the age of 22, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. There he studied with Joshua Shaw and Manuel J. de Franca. For about ten years after his arrival in the United States, he painted portraits in oil and miniatures on ivory. During the same time, he found employment in making designs for banknote vignettes, and also in drawing on wood for book illustrations. He pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved plates in 1841–48 for ''Graham's Magazine'', published by George Rex Graham, and believed his work was responsible for the publication's sudden success.〔Quinn, Arthur Hobson. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998: 330. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9.〕 Sartain became editor and proprietor of ''Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine'' in 1843. He had an interest at the same time in the ''Eclectic Museum'', for which, later, when John H. Agnew was alone in charge, he simply engraved the plates. File:John Sartain, Mary, Queen Of Scots, The Evening Before Her Execution.jpg|John Sartain, ''Mary, Queen of Scots'', The Evening Before Her Execution File:John Sartain, Zachary Taylor.jpg|John Sartain, ''Zachary Taylor'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Sartain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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