Full Name: Lester, C. Edwards
Other Names:
- Charles Edwards Lester
Gender: male
Date Born: 1815
Date Died: 1890
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): American (North American), biography (general genre), Colonial North American, colonialism, and colonization
Overview
Author of early American biography of artists. His book Artists of America, featured biographies of Washington Allston, Henry Inman, Benjamin West, Gilbert Charles Stuart, John Trumbull, James DeVeaux, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Crawford. His work built on the early criticism of John Neal.
Selected Bibliography
The Artists of America: a Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists: with Portraits and Designs on Steel. New York: Baker & Scribner, 1846.
Sources
Sears, Donald A. John Neal. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978, p. 116, mentioned.