Paintbrush for Hire

“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—he