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George Beck was an English-born landscape painter and poet who produced numerous works in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is best remembered for his paintings The Potomac River Breaking through the Blue Ridge and Great Falls of the Potomac , which were purchased by George Washington and can still be found ...
The Portfolio ’s “authorized” biography of George Beck has inspired, informed, and mislead, scholars of American painting for more than three quarters of a century. In 1940, the eminent Maryland historian J. Hall Pleasants was inspired by his discovery of the 1813 Portfolio biography to pen an essay on Beck for the Maryland Historical Magazine.
George Beck (c. 1749 – December 24, 1812) was an artist and poet who flourished in America during the early republic era.
George Andrew Beck (28 May 1904 – 13 September 1978) was an English prelate who served in the Roman Catholic Church as Archbishop of Liverpool from 29 January 1964 to 7 February 1976. [1]
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Aug 31, 2014 · The war memoirs of Regimental Sergeant-Major George Beck has recently been revealed a century after the good soldier wrote them. The diaries of RSM George Beck were handwritten and described in detail the excruciating life soldiers in the front lines of the Great war had to contend with.
Painter," George Beck (1749-1812) is better known for his landscape work.1 He was perhaps the most experienced, if not the first of the early landscape painters to work in this country
