Beard, James Henry
painter, was born in 1814, in Buffalo, N. Y. His family removed when he was a child to Ohio, and he eventually settled in Cincinnati, where he devoted himself for many years to portrait painting; Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and other distinguished persons being among his sitters. Of late years he has devoted himself chiefly to animal painting, in which branch of art he has achieved success. Among his best known works are: Peep at Growing Danger; The Widow; Mutual Friend; There's Many a Slip; Consultation; Don't You Know Me; Heirs at Law; Which Has Preëmption; The Mississippi Flood; Barn Yard.