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Duveneck, Frank

artist, was born about 1845 in Covington, Ky. He sent five portraits to the Boston Art club in 1875; and has since attained high rank as a successful artist.

DUYCKINCK, EVERT AUGUSTUS, author, was born Nov. 23, 1816, in New York city. He was a literary critic of New York city, who with his brother George, was the author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855. Other works by the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; and Biography of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America. He died in 1878.

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