David Hunter Strother UVA Print "The Student"

David Hunter Strother UVA Print "The Student" David Hunter Strother, a. k.a "Porte Crayon", UVA colored print titled "The Student"; reads to top "Sketched November 1853 The University of Virginia" and reads to bottom "It gives me great pleasure to say that, although the vivacity of these blooded colts at the University frequently leads them into all sorts of deviltries and excesses, they have almost invariably the manners of gentlemen. P.C. 1853"; titled to bottom middle; measures approximately 19-1/2" x 15-1/2" with frame and has an approximate sight image of 16" x 10-1/2". David Hunter Strother (September 26, 1816 – March 8, 1888) was a successful 19th century American magazine illustrator and writer, popularly known by his pseudonym, "Porte Crayon". Strother was born in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). He studied drawing under Pietro Ancora in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1829, and studied painting under Samuel F. B. Morse in New York in 1837-1838. After travels in the Midwest in 1838-1839, he embarked for Europe in the fall of 1839. Residing primarily in Italy, he returned to the United States in the spring of 1843. During