Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild
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ZOGBAUM, Rufus Fairchild, artist, b. in Charleston, S. C., 28 Aug., 1849. He received his art education at the Art students' league, New York, in 1878-'9, and during 1880-'2 under Léon J. F. Bonnat in Paris. He has studied many of the great armies of Europe in field and garrison, and is known as a delineator of military subjects. He is a member of the American water-color society. In 1884 there appeared in “Harper's Monthly” the first of a series of military articles written and illustrated by himself, and he has since published “Horse, Foot, and Dragoons” (New York, 1887).