Quotes:Vedder, Elihu

Zirkoff, Boris

Vedder, Elihu. American painter, b. in New York, Feb. 26, 1836; d. in Rome, Jan. 29, 1923. Studied under the genre and historical painter Tompkins H. Matteson, and under Picot, in Paris; later in Italy, 1857-61. After 1867, lived in Rome. Acquired renown after the publication, 1884, of his illustrations to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Important decorative work came at a later date, such as the mosaic “Minerva” in the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. A few days before his death, his book, Doubt and Other Things, was published.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, p. 428