Sandford Robinson Gifford, an American painter, born in Greenfield, Saratoga co., N. Y., July 10, 1823. His childhood and youth were passed at Hudson, and in 1842 he entered Brown university, where he remained till 1844, when he went to New York and studied drawing, perspective, and anatomy, with a view to figure painting; but in 1845 he determined to devote himself to landscapes. In 1851 he became an associate of the national academy, and in 1854 an academician. In May, 1855, he went to Europe, spent the summer sketching in England and Scotland, passed the following winter in Paris, and in the summer of 1856 made a pedestrian tour through Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. The next winter he passed in Rome, and the summer of 1857 in a sketching tour, in company with Albert Bierstadt, through the Abruzzi and around Naples, and later through parts of Austria. He returned to New York in September. In 1861, at the outbreak of the civil war, he joined the 7th New York regiment and accompanied it to Washington. He was also out with it in 1862 and 1863. In 1868 he went abroad again, and spent two years sketching in Italy, Greece, Syria, and Egypt. Among the best of Gif-ford's pictures are the following:"Kauterskill Clove,"Twilight" (1859), Bivouac of the 7th Regiment at Arlington Heights" (1861), "Baltimore, 1862,"A House in the Wilderness" (1866),Hunter Mountain" (1866), "Sunrise on the Seashore" (1867),Shrewsbury River" (1868),Mansfield Mountain" (1869),San Giorgio" (1869),Fishing Boats of the Adriatic" (1870),Pallanza" (1870), "Tivoli" (1870),A Venetian Twilight, Santa Maria di Salute (1871),Monte Ferro, Lake Maggiore"(1871),"The Golden Horn (1872), "Schloss Rheinstein" (1873), and Sunset on the Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory" (1874).