William Henry Harrison
John Sartain
1808-1897
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation
Accession Number
1966.48.25
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
U. S. Capitolcapitolsculpturechairglobeswordpresidentfull length
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...