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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 ...
Biography. Beck was born in England in 1749. He was employed as an instructor in mathematics at Woolwich from 1776, but was afterward dismissed. He emigrated to the United States in 1795, and was employed in painting pictures. One of his paintings, The Great Falls of the Potomac (1796) was purchased by President George Washington.
Pittsburgh by an unknown artist (previously attributed to George Beck), ca. 1804, Collection of the University of Pittsburgh’s Library System, Special Collections, Hillman Library; View of Baltimore from Howard’s Park by George Beck, ca. 1796, Collection of the Maryland Historical Society, Acc. 1846.3.1; and View of Philadelphia and the ...
Mar 27, 2018 · In a story that has been lost to history, a group of horseback riders embarked on a 20,000 mile trip across the United States in 1912, searching for fame and money. A horse named Pinto would turn this “ride of the century” into a reality. George Beck, a part-time Washington logger, and his three closest companions decided to embark on this ...
Mar 13, 2017 · The Trump administration mandated that 46 U.S. Attorneys across the country resign by midnight Friday. That number included the U.S. Attorney in Alabama's Middle District, George Beck Jr.
Aug 31, 2014 · Regimental Sergeant-Major George Beck was born in 1881 in Warwickshire. By 1898, he joined the army and was shipped off to South Africa during the Boer War. He rose up in the ranks and, by 1905, was already a color sergeant. This level in the army allowed him to marry. And so, he went on to marry Eliza Attwooll, who came from Portland, Dorset ...
George said, “nonsense, you got the job, so do the job, because your brothers and our whole fraternity depend on you.”. He continued, “you scribes write up the day to day, week to week history of your chapter and your brothers lives. So, fifty years from now, people will know who you and your brothers were and what you went through ...
