Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ith the signifi-cant titles of the Gin-Shop, the Gin-Juggernaut. etc., with amoral bias. He was also a temperance reformer, an advocate of totalabstinence in his public addresses and writings. In his later yearshe devoted himself to the production of oil-paintings, with charac- teristic skill and success. He died in 1878. Hih designs are num-bered by thousands, and have ever been highly valued by an appre-ciative public. A copy of his Election for Beadle is glvt-n onthis page, illustrating a humorous sketch by Dickens in one of hisearlier volumes, which very fairly indicates bis sense of the humor-ous, but not 80 broadly as in many other instances. For theinformation of American readers it may be well to explain that theelection of a beadle was a local event of considerable importance inmany parishes of England. The duties of the beadle, however, werenot of a high order, but various, embracing the preservation of order during churchservices, the chastise-ment of petty offend-ers, etc.
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Election for Beadle. By George Cruikshank; from a Humorous Sketch by Charles Dickens. PETER P. RUBENS. HE artist, PeterPaul Rubens, wasborn at Siegen,Germany, in 1577.Ilis father died in 1587,and the following yearRubens went to Ant-werp, Belgium, withhis mother, and becamethe page of the count-ess of Salalng. Notlong afterwards he re-linquished this posi-tion in order to studyart under competentmasters, and then wentto Italy to obtain anacquaintance with theworks of the greatartists who had pre-ceded him. Halting atVenice, he found afriend in the duke ofMantua, who attachedhim to his court, andenabled him to residein Rome. After visit-ing Milan and Genoa,hi? was invited to returnto the Netherlands byArchduke Albert andthe Infanta Isabella,who honored him withoffice and a pension.Rubens then settled atAntwerp, and rose tothe highest eminenceas a painter. In 1G20,at the request of Mary of Medicis, he embellished the Luxemburggallery with a series of pictures, and in 1628 Isabella dispa

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