Lefevre James Cranstone
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Lefevre James Cranstone was an English artist known for his watercolor genre-style landscapes and oil paintings. He visited the United States, where many of his works are displayed, and later moved to
Photograph of Lefevre James Cranstone, c.1859
The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia – watercolour, 1859–60 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Slave Auction, Virginia – oil on canvas, 1862 (Virginia Museum of History & Culture)
The Hemel Hempstead Gazette & Express is a local newspaper in the United Kingdom that covers the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring and the surrounding area in Hertfordshire.
Lefevre James Cranstone
…Donald L. Smith's biography of Cranstone contains a facsimile of this painting along with a letter dated 29 December 1860, that Cranstone wrote to the Hemel Hempstead Gazette, stating his views on the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, denouncing the brutality of slavery and describing in detail…
Front page of the Gazette & Express, January 2018