Revisiting Rufus Porter.

The article recounts the life and works of 19th-century American folk artist Rufus Porter. Information is provided about earlier career of Porter as a portrait painter, his approach to doing portraits, his style and technique for painting landscape panoramas and mural landscapes, the impact of the Panic of 1837 and the recession on Porter's painting business that led him to newspaper publishing, and his business venture into dirigible airship with the founding of Aerial Navigation Co.