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of Cincinnati, & this city has been peculiarly prolific in men of this class are mostly the uneducated votaries of Art i.e. so far as Academic instruction is concerned - The tendency of the school is good, self reliance & constant reference to nature, regardless, perhaps too much, of the great canons of art - The painters are mostly landscape artists and the beautiful country by which they are surrounded supplies them with ample material for study & subject - The most eminent in landscape is Sonntag a native of Cincinnati & a social agreeable v? modest gentleman - He has travelled over the greater part of this country visiting all our finest scenery & has studied entirely in the school of nature, - His landscapes are remarkably fine, distinct, characteristic & truthful - Whitredge, Duncanson (a negro), also paint good landscape the general defect of the artists here being a want of massiveness in the foreground & a hardness & harshness of drawing & colour - Eaton paints a good