Paintbrush for Hire: The Travels of James and Emma Cameron, 1840-1900

“I was pulled into the story and read every word.”—Randolph Delehanty, author of Art in the American South: Works from the Odgen Collection

Throughout the nineteenth-century, itinerant painters traveled the length and breadth of Europe and American in search of patronage. In the company of the his crupulous wife, Emma S. Cameron (1825–1907), the Scots-born James Cameron (1816–1882) sought to fulfill his ambitious dream of becoming an artist.

Working primarily as a landscapist and portraitist—...