William Holbrook Beard (1825-1900) was a popular painter of comedic animal scenes; it was he who first popularized the Wall Street “bulls” and “bears” by depicting them wrestling on the trading floor in an 1879 work. His resting place on the cemetery’s Atlantic Avenue, almost the, er, dead center of Green-Wood, was unmarked until 2002, […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/11/william-holbrook-beard-green-wood-cemetery/
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