Read, Thomas Buchanan

Thomas Buchanan (1822-1872), an American poet and painter. He was born in Pennsylvania, and lived in Ohio, in New York, and in England. He was both a landscape and a portrait painter. He painted a portrait of Longfellow's daughters which has been much admired. Photograph copies have been circulated widely. Read published several long poems, but is known best for Sheridan's Ride, which is one of the most popular war ballads ever published. Drifting, The Brickmaker, and The Uprising in 1776 were other well known poems.