[Bingham, George Caleb]:

$9,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

STUMP SPEAKING. THIS PRINT FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY GEO. C. BINGHAM ESQ. IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE FRIENDS OF AMERICAN ART BY THE PUBLISHERS GOUPIL & ... A vibrant and striking image of American campaign politics in the 1850s based on a painting by noted American artist George Caleb Bingham, featuring a white-suited politician leaning over a lectern and speaking to a large crowd of potential voters. George Caleb Bingham was born on a plantation in Virginia but grew up in Missouri, where he lived most of his life. He was largely a self-taught painter, but one with immense talents and instincts; creating - in addition to a steady output of dignified portraits - a series of genre paintings depicting, with a blend of grace and humor, the way of life of the people of the plains and the Missouri river. Bingham was himself a politician of some renown, with an interesting record of party hopping. Bingham served a term as a Missouri state Congressman for the Whig party beginning in 1848, sided with Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War, and then served as a delegate for the Democratic Party in 1872. At various times, he also served as Treasurer of Missouri, first chief of police in Kansas City, and the Adjutant-General of Missouri. Throughout his political career, Bingham also remained an artist, and left a catalogue of wonderful paintings, mostly concerned with frontier life along the Missouri River.Stump Speaking, painted in 1853-54, is the second of Bingham's

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