| Born
1789, died I861;
A Frenchman, served under Napoleon, and was decorated. He married
Mademoiselle Vital, and during the political crisis came to England. Cut
silhouettes in doubled black paper; itinerated in the large towns in England and
on the Continent. He kept books of duplicates which contained upwards of 100,000
portraits; these included the French Royal Family taken at Holyrood, hundreds of
the gentry and nobility of Great Britain, besides professional men, statesmen,
politicians, and almost every man and women of note of his time. He wrote a treatise on silhouettes, a demy octavo volume with many illustrations, which is
now very rare. When upwards of fifty years of age, Edouart went to America, and
while their he cut the portraits of presidents, soldiers, sailors, senators, and
famous man and women in the States. In 1849 the ship " Oneida," on
which the artist returned, was wrecked, and many of his valuable volumes of
duplicates were lost, some 9,000 portraits. However fourteen volumes were saved and form
a remarkable collection of the celebrities of his day.
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Samuel
Foote, New York, 1839
Nathan Mayer Rothschild