The President of the National Academy [pp. 617-620]

a' cordng to Act of Coogros., in tho yoar 1871, by D. APrLETON & Co., in tho Offico of tho Librarian of Congreas at Washington.
~No. 140.-VOL. VI.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1871. [PmCE TEN CENTS.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY.
VXILLTA,A PAGE, one of the greatest of American painters, and mnorons speaker at public meetings. lie remiidudrIoi'
VV president of the National Academy of Design, was benti at Icare about a -year, and was then'transferredtonofhepbi
Albany, January 23,
1811. His father, soon as he could
Levi Page, was t h e ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~handle a pencil, he ~
Levi P'age, was the
soti of a farmer in had shown a marked
Coventry, Connecti- talent for art, which
cut, and, after leav- ~;;......... dl
ing the homestead, -..,o _ that, at the age of
followed a singular eleven, he made a
variety of pursuits, " 4!- drawing in India-ink
being by turns a mail..
carrier on horseback, LouisXIV. of France,
a printer, a shop- which the principal
keeper, a navigator of his school carried
on ~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~ ~the Itudon,an:/' for exhibition to the
oui the Hudson, and
finaillyv a plane-maker..'ii'p;:./ ~>
foully a plane-maker. 4'~~~~~~~~~~~~'~~~~s American Institute,
Ile was a man of ~.;. by which a prize was
l~~~~e was a man 01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~..":'''" awarded to:'- the'' youth-....?i!;i'_ wrdd oheouh
much natural intel ligence, and, though ful draughtsman. In
imperfectly educated those days, however,
displayed through ii e art was little appre considerable mathe- in;his!ou ma.tical talent. Hi try, and was hardly
wanderings led him
to Albany, where he p n r
became acquainted not as one by which
with and married a a living could be
widow named Du made. Inspite, there nell, who had several fore, of his manifest
children by her first p
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