The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anthony, Andrew Varick Stout

ANTHONY, Andrew Varick Stout, artist, was born in New York city in 1835. He studied drawing and engraving at an early age. and on the formation of the American Water-color Society was one of its charter members. He became recognized among the few successful engravers of their own creations. Among his best works are his illustrations for Whittier"s "Snow-Bound" (1867); "Ballads of New England" (1870); "Mabel Martin" (1876); Longfellow's "Skeleton in Armor" (1877); and Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" (1878). He resided for a number of years in New York and California, and in 1878 settled in Boston, but removed again to New York city, where in 1896 he had charge of the art department in the publishing house of Harper and Brothers.