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Title
Long
Bill
Painting
Subject
Arts and Entertainment
Presidents and Politics
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
The
Long
Bill
,
painted
in
Cincinnati
in
1840
,
records
with
good-natured
humor
the
encounter
between
the
unsophisticated
customer
distraught
by the
high
cost
of
groceries
and the
disdainful
shopkeeper
who
bears
the
bad
news
. This
subject
had
special
meaning
in
1840
,
when
rampant
inflation
was
one
of the
central
issues
of the
presidential
campaign
. In this
regard
, the
painting
functions
as a
political
allegory
. The
customer
may
represent
Ohioan
William
Henry
Harrison
,
whom
Beard
ardently
supported
, and the
shopkeeper
his
opponent
, the
incumbent
from
New
York
,
Martin
Van
Buren
,
who
was
pegged
a
dandy
. The
painting
measures
30.37
by
24.87
inches
(77.2
by
63.2
cm)
.
James
Henry
Beard
,
born
in
Buffalo
,
New
York
,
arrived
in
Cincinnati
around
1830
and for
many
years
was the
most
accomplished
portrait
painter
in the
city
. He
soon
joined
a
number
of
artists
who
,
influenced
by the
17th-century
Dutch
genre
paintings
,
depicted
subjects
from
everyday
American
life
with
vivid
narrative
content
and
naturalistically
rendered
details
.
Such
works
enjoyed
broad
appeal
with the
growing
middle
class
and
responded
to the
prevailing
nationalism
of the
era
.
After
the
Civil
War
,
Beard
moved
permanently
to
New
York
City
,
where
he
specialized
in
painting
animals
in
human
situations
to
satirize
contemporary
society
.
Creator
Beard, James Henry
Date of Original
1840
Source
Audiovisual material
1924.186
Submitting Institution
Cincinnati Art Museum
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om999_888780_001.tif
Image Height
1267
Image Width
1039
File Size
274.759 KB
Format
picture
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