Edward Lamson Henry, commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina.
Edward Lamson Henry
Unexpected Visitors, a typical painting of rural nostalgia
Kept In, 1888. Race was a theme in many of Henry's paintings, inspired by his time in the Civil War.
Presentation of Colors, 1864 depicts the outfitting of two African-American Civil War regiments at the Union League Club of New York.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Center City Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' 1806 building featured in an 1809 engraving
PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870
North River by George Bellows, 1908