Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-28

i Tuesday. He expressed admiration of the general collection and the excel
 lent care they received. Mr. Henry,
 concerning his Leaving Home,'' said: 1 "I spent two summers painting that picture out of doors, and left the city
 early, so as to be in time for the ap- pie blossoms. The picture is histori cally accurate as to building, carriage, , dresses, etc. The old house I found below Philadelphia, not very far from Chadds Ford, at Concord, Pa, Ches- ter county. I painted the house as it appeared about 1925. It has originally sort of overhang or cornice plas- tered underneath, the remains of which you can see, where the beams which it supported have routed away. This was taken away about 1920, and the porch added, and about 1880, the old kitchen part was taken away and the building heightened. The lines of the old building are the same and show where 1t was joined.
 T preferred to have 1t as 1t now appears in the picture, so as to corre- spond with the dresses and carriage; as I found that many old houses of this class had pOrches added about the POS and sos, the old cornices rot- ting off, and they were not renewed generally. The time is supposed to be during the administration of John
 Quincy Adams. This building Is a fine example of the old stone houses
 of the middle of the last century On
 the tablet over the porch it is marked
 Built by William and Ann Trimble, A.D., TAI" l did not care to put
 this in the picture, as it at once
 localized it.
 T have studied the dresses. etc, of the time very carefully, many of them I have purchased, others I had made after. originals. I have also the coats, hats, etc., after many a long hunt for them. The suit the little boy has on found in Rhode Island, and it has an interesting history. The family had preserved it since 1872, when the little fellow, with this suit on, was run over and killed by an oxcart. The family, all dying off and no love or interest for the suit remaining, it was finally purchased from a distant rela- tive. It is a curiosity; the very shoes he wore having some dried dirt of the period on them; and the little friled shirt. vest, swallow tailed coat and barn door pants, all made of blue gray homespun.
 "The same with the carriage. heard of this one and it was just of the period I was looking for, but it's owner, who was dying with consump- tion. would not part with 1t. waited untll ne dled ana purchased the car riage. It is a fine sample of the plain country carriage, about 1910 to 1880, or as long as they could be safely used"
 Leaving Home is not an ordinary studio picture, made up from some old engraving and. filled up with imagi- nation and full of inaccuracies, but is of the material really existing, and years to come it will have historic value, when so many of these imagina- tive pictures will have passed away.
 Edward l.. Henry was born in South Carolina in 1S41. He displayed a mark ed taste for art as a youth, studying in New York, in the academy of Phil adelphias and later in Paris for two years uzder different masters; but not long >enough in any particular school toybe strongly influenced by it's style He was for a short time under Cour- bet. His professional life, with the exception of about five years passed in Europe, he has spent in New York.
 The first important work of MT. Henrys which attracted attention was The Railway Station of New Eng land Road" in the Johnston collection, sold in 1876, for s530, to J. w. Gar rett, president of the Baltimore &. Ohio railroad. Since then most of his work has become famous.