The New Student's Reference Work/Tuckerman, Henry Theodore

Tuck′erman, Henry Theodore, an American writer, was born at Boston, April 20, 1813. He spent several years in Italy in the study of art and literature. His works appeared mostly as contributions to periodicals. They include The Italian Sketchbook, Sicily; Thoughts on the Poets, translated into German; Artist-Life or Sketches of American Painters; Book of American Artists; poems; and essays. He died at New York, where he had resided for many years, on Dec. 17, 1871.