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28 A Plantation Burial, 1860 Oil on canvas; 53 x 81 in. The Historic New Orleans Collection COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA JOHN M. ANTROBUS b. 1837, Warwickshire, England d. 1907, Detroit, Michigan John Antrobus settled in New Orleans in 1859 after working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Savannah, Georgia; Montgomery, Alabama; the American West; and Mexico. He intended to make his mark in New Orleans by painting and exhibiting a series of twelve large panoramic paintings documenting characteristic scenes in Louisiana, but this ambitious project was interrupted by the Civil War. Only two of his Louisiana panoramas were completed. The most famous of these, A Plantation Burial, is based on a print that appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The other depicts Bayou Macon Plantation in East Carroll Parish. Antrobus exhibited these paintings at the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans in 1860. In the same vein as scenes of plantation life painted by Marie Adrien Persac, Antrobus’ paintings are remarkable testaments of social and economic life in the twilight years of the antebellum South. RAL  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1150 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1150

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