Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Jefferson
County. Artists of Kentucky, pages 622-623.

NEVIL CAIN, son of John S. Cain, of Louisville, while still a boy-painter,
twice received such complimentary and substantial encouragement from the
legislature of Kentucky as has never been so soon repeated to any of her
most favored and distinguished artists.  On March 9, 1871, before he was
thirteen years of age, his portrait of Chief Justice George Robertson was
purchased by that body, at the handsome sum of $500, and ordered to be
suspended in the court room of the court of appeals.  Three years after,
and before he was sixteen years old, the senate, on Jan. 23, 1874, adopted
a joint resolution to purchase, for $250, his portrait of another
venerable ex-judge of the court of appeals, Joseph R. Underwood, then one
of the oldest practicing lawyers in the United States; it would probably
pass the house in a few days. Young Cain, at the time of this last action,
was in Europe (in Munich, Bavaria), prosecuting his studies as a painter;
he had already received a bronze medal, for proficiency in painting - a
rare compliment to an American, and more remarkable than rare, considering
the youth of the recipient and severe competition.  It would seem as if
honors and success almost beyond measure attend the path of this promising
young Louisville artist.

Cain Robertson Underwood
=
Bavaria

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