Johnson, George G.

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Philip Paul Bliss at right and his wife Lucy seated at left, with an artist identified as Beard sketching a child on a large drawing board. Philip Paul Bliss (1838–1876) was a prominent American gospel singer and composer associated with the Moody and Sankey revivals. Mrs. Bliss sits in the foreground holding a closed parasol, wearing a dark dress with contrasting trim, while Bliss is seated at right in a dark suit with waistcoat and bow tie. The central seated woman wears a patterned dress with apron and hat, positioned between the couple, with rocks and trees forming a constructed outdoor backdrop. Bliss and his wife Lucy (1841–1876) died together in the Ashtabula River railroad disaster in Ohio on December 29, 1876, when a bridge collapse caused a train to plunge into a ravine and burn.

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Philip Paul Bliss at right and his wife Lucy seated at left, with an artist identified as Beard sketching a child on a large drawing board. Philip Paul Bliss (1838–1876) was a prominent American gospel singer and composer associated with the Moody and Sankey revivals. Mrs. Bliss sits in the foreground holding a closed parasol, wearing a dark dress with contrasting trim, while Bliss is seated at right in a dark suit with waistcoat and bow tie. The central seated woman wears a patterned dress with apron and hat, positioned between the couple, with rocks and trees forming a constructed outdoor backdrop. Beard has sketched the photographer Johnson at the lower left. Bliss and his wife Lucy (1841–1876) died together in the Ashtabula River railroad disaster in Ohio on December 29, 1876, when a bridge collapse caused a train to plunge into a ravine and burn.