Practiced mostly by itinerant, self-taught artists, this distinctive art form was displaced in the mid-1800's by photography.
IN the 19th century, itinerant, self-taught artists often made their way to remote New England mill towns, painting on-the-spot portraits of the newly moneyed mill owners and merchants.
Part of the plot, he explains, turns on Dee's meeting with Edward Kelley, a mysterious figure said to be one of the Elizabethan period's itinerant "skryers" – self-styled seers and psychics.
In 1907, Sadler began giving lectures on the Chautauqua adult-education circuit, which featured itinerant speakers discussing self-help and morality.
A self confessed itinerant, he has proven especially adaptive to new environments, chameleonic in his ability to quickly employ his talents to new tracks.
These two self-taught itinerant artists were succeeded by John Wollaston and Joseph Blackburn.
Groups working to fight causes of homelessness condemn their approach as an inadequate way to provide quality public education to children whose lives are destabilized by poverty, itinerant parents and low self-esteem.
The reasons are complex, and probably include confidence issues, bias and family-unfriendly realities – long hours, the need to be itinerant, persistent job insecurity, and the self-fulfilling negative feedback loop of a lack of role models at the top.
Even in urban areas those excluded tend to be the self-employed, domestic servants, and itinerant workers.
The "Letter to the University of Oxford" is addressed from Abingdon, where the itinerant court was resident; its aim is to discredit the self-styled Trojans who are resisting the introduction of liberal studies (CWM 15, 133).
Phillips, a prolific itinerant portraitist active in New England between 1811 and 1865, was a self-taught neo-Classical realist, a kind of folk-art Ingres.
