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PORTRAITURE Charles Bullet first arrived in

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of 1918. Born in Cincinnati, Bullet
The list of professional portrait lived most of his life across the Ohio
artists in Florida in the years River in Campbell County, Kentucky.
between 1840 to 1960 is too long He painted on Sanibel and Captiva
to recount here. There were itinerant Islands, becoming well known for
traveling portrait artists working in his early Florida landscapes. But
St. Augustine and Tallahassee in he did portraits as well. The Fort
1837-1838 before Florida became a Myers Press, February 17, 1927,
territory in 1840. They came seeking carried a notice of an exhibition of
portrait commissions and warm his work at the Community House,
winter weather. The Florida portrait and the last chance to get one of his
work of William Niblo, Jr. and F. B. fine oil paintings of Florida scenes.
Ladd, both from New York, and later He returned home to Fort Thomas,
the portraits of William McK. Russell, Kentucky, and died suddenly on April
in Tallahassee, are to date, lost, but 1, 1927, at the age of sixty-three.
twentieth century Florida portraits Charles Bullet, Ft. Myers, Oil on board
can be found. 9 x 14 inches.

Good Florida portraits are not easy I found this review of his work in
to find. Artist self-portraits, even the St. Petersburg Times, April 13,
harder. I stumbled on Mark Dixon 1930. “Mark Dixon Dodd may be truly
Dodd’s on eBay. Dodd moved to St. called a St. Petersburg artist since
Petersburg from New York City and for the last few years he has had his
opened a studio on Beach Drive. house and studio in the city, except
He became a prominent member for those painting pilgrimages which
of the city’s art community. In he has taken from time to time to the
1933 his mural Seminole War was west and to the Carolina Mountains.
commissioned by the state of Florida He has a delightful studio and school
as one of a series of historical of art in the picturesque Bayboro
subjects for the Florida building at section, and is also head of the fine
the Chicago Century of Progress. Continued >

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