The Haunted Stream
after 1846
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Library of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
1990.5.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
John Sartain · 1808–1897
**John Sartain (1808–1897)** was an English-born American artist renowned for pioneering mezzotint engraving in the United States. Born in London on October 24, 1808, he trained in line engraving and contributed plates to William Young Ottley’s *Early Florentine School* (1826). He began experimenting with mezzotints in 1828 and studied painting under John Varley and Henry James Richter. In 1830, a...