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study, it may be mentioned that he had secured
O fine study of atmosphere by Claude Lorraine,
but he never reached his ideal in his work over
it, and finally, in a fit of desperation, he slashed
his copy into four pieces with his razor, and
threw the pieces in the bottom of his trunk,
where they remained for two or three years,
only to be resurrected finally at the urgent So
~licitation of Mr. Rich, who begged him to mount
the pieces On a fresh piece of canvas, and who
liked it so well that he paid him a handsome sum
for it. This copy really started him on his Jour-
ney toward artistic eminence in America. Mean
time he continued his work. mostly in Rome.
where Hawthorne met and was attracted to him,
making mention of him in "The Marble Faun;'
and he was a noted and welcome figure in the
American colony, the Brownings making much
of him. He soon had pictures in several of the
castles in Italy, and here and there one in other
countries, there being a ~poetical dreaminess
about his atmospheric effects that appealed to
the cultured taste.
He came home in 1860, and took a studio for
a time in New York, where he painted a view
of Mount Washington, which he called "The
Crown of New England" and which a number
of New York gentlemen, among whom was Henry
Ward Beecher, purchased and presented to the
prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII, who was
on a tour of this country at that time. The
painting pleased the prince so greatly that he
ordered a companion picture, "The Bay of New
York" both of which he had sent home to him,
and they were hung in Windsor castle, at that
time being the only American pictures so hon
ored.
So much for one of the boosters.
Mr.. Healy first went to London, but did not
remain there long, the French capital appealing
to him more strongly. The American minister,
Hon. Lewis Cass, interested himself in the young
artist, and induced the French king, Louis Phil
ippe, to give him sittings, the portrait pleasing
stoned him to visit Windsor castle, to copy some
the French monarch so much that he commits
of the paintings there, and later sent him home
to America to paint some of the American states
men for the Versailles gallery. But the revolu-
ton of 184S put an end to this royal patronage.
A famous painting of his later was Franklin
fore Louis XVI" which was shown at the Paris
international Exhibition of 1855. He came home
that year, and in Boston exhibited the great his
torical picture of "Websters Reply to Hayne,"
which contains a hundred and thirty portraits,
and which has hung in Faneuil hall ever since.
This painting and other works attracted the at
tention of William B. Ogden, who has been called
the father of Chicago" He induce the artist
to remove to Chicago, where he remained till
1867, when he returned to Rome, and afterward
to Paris He had portraits of M. Theirs, the
princes of Roumania, Lord Lyons and Hon. E.
B. Washburne in the Philadelphia Centennial Elk
hibition of 1876, and of General Grant in the
Paris Salon of 1878. He painted portraits of a
number of distinguished Americans, including
Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John c. Calhoun,
John Quincy Adams, Generals Sherman and Nc