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for Jacob A. Dallas
American, 1825 - 1857
In 1833, Dallas moved with his parents from his native Philadelphia to Missouri. At age eighteen he graduated from Amos College and subsequently returned to Philadelphia where he studied portraiture under Bass Otis. Around 1850 he moved to New York City and began working as an illustrator for such periodicals as Harper's Weekly and Putnam's Monthly Magazine. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy in 1854. Around this time he became acquainted with Joseph Kyle and began working on panoramas. He married Kyle's daughter, Mary, but within two years succumbed to dysentery.
