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Charles Winfield Tice was born in Montgomery, New York, near Newburgh, and worked as a portrait, landscape and still life painter. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design between 1837 and 1849 including many views of Newburgh and its surrounding environs. See Groce and Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America (New Haven, 1957), p. 630; N-YHS National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (New York, 1943), p. 163.