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    George H Comegys

    Birth: 8-23-1818

    Death: 12-24-1846

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From AskArt: "A genre, portrait, and historical painter, George Comegys lived in Philadelphia. As a youth he studied under John Neagle and his earliest work is recorded in 1836. He exhibited at the Artists' Fund Society, Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design in New York as well as the Apollo Gallery and Association. He died in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane."

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From AskArt: "A genre, portrait, and historical painter, George Comegys lived in Philadelphia. As a youth he studied under John Neagle and his earliest work is recorded in 1836. He exhibited at the Artists' Fund Society, Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design in New York as well as the Apollo Gallery and Association. He died in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane."
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