Benjamin West Henry, A Lan- caster Artist, The ancestors of Benjamin West Henry were Robert and Mary A. Henry, his wife, who emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled in Chester County. They were accompanied by their three sons, John, Robert and James. John, the eldest son

profession- ally to the city and county. Being a native of Philadelphia, however, he does belong to the State, and, as one of his friends says of him, he stands in the front rank, with the pencil and brush, of our Commonwealth's artists. Quoting, the same friend says of him: "He does not come before us with

, was an educated man, and received, in the year 1800, from Governor McKean, appointment as Justice of the Peace, which he held and exercised for a number of years, attending also to his farm, until 1812, when he sold out and removed to Marietta, Lancaster county, with his family, two daugh- ters and

the fifteenth century, was the foremost flourishing city in Southern Germany, and from 1663 to 1810 was the per- manent seat of the Imperial Diet. This city occupies an important position in 'the history of mediaeval art, and in it remain many remarkable structures of that period. There is the

, but these events, slight and confused as they are, suggest, when compared to the paintings, that he gave most of his energies to life rather than to his art. Slightness of real material, how- ever, in writing a biography or art criticism should not discourage. Bi- ography being usually written by