Reading Public Museum Acquires Rare 1838 Painting by Lancaster Artist Adam Mortimer Lightner

Reading Public Museum Acquires Rare 1838 Painting by Lancaster Artist Adam Mortimer Lightner

From Reading Public Museum The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of Cupid Riding a Dolphin (1838), a rare painting by Pennsylvania artist Adam Mortimer Lightner (1815-1840). The acquisition strengthens the Museum’s holdings of early American art while bringing renewed attention to the remarkable achievements of a gifted regional painter whose promising career was cut tragically short. Born into a pro…