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Rufus Porter Rufus Porter water color wall mural Rufus Porter advertisement for his 1849 New York to California transport Rufus Porter mural in the Kent House, Lyme, New Hampshire Title page of Porter's pamphlet of 1849. Rufus Porter (May 1, 1792 – August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine ...
The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity is located in Bridgton, Maine. It is dedicated to the life and works of Rufus Porter (1792–1884). The museum is located on Main Street in two historic buildings and is open seasonally or by appointment.
The Moses Kent House is a historic house on River Road in Lyme, New Hampshire.Built in 1811, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture, most notable for the well-preserved murals on its interior walls, drawn by the itinerant artist Rufus Porter.
Rufus Porter may refer to: Rufus Porter (painter) (1792–1884), American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine; Rufus Porter (American ...
The murals drawn on its walls are most likely by the itinerant artist Rufus Porter, and were probably drawn between 1825 and 1830, when Porter is known to have been working in this region. After standing vacant for two decades, the house was purchased by sisters Rebecca Field Jones and Alma Duckworth in the 1980s, and underwent a major ...
Reed Homestead, with murals attributed to Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American. The Reed Homestead (circa 1809) is a historic home currently operated as a historic house museum in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts.
Rufus Wainwright has admitted his “most controversial” opinion about pop culture is that “gays have really horrible taste in music”.. The Canadian-American folk-pop artist, 51, is ...
The Barrows-Steadman Homestead is a historic house at the northeast corner of Main and Stuart Streets in Fryeburg, Maine, United States.Built c. 1809, this frame house is a good vernacular example of Federal architecture, but is most notable for the murals painted on the walls of one of its bedrooms by Rufus Porter and Jonathan Poor, noted itinerant painters of the 19th century.