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Allston was then living in Boston, but was planning to return to England, where his name was well known, and it was arranged that young Morse should accompany him as his pupil.
In one of his letters he speaks enthusiastically of the painter, Allston, with whose genius he was deeply impressed as he looked on the grand picture of Daniel interpreting the Dream of Belshazzar, then begun but never to be finished. In the same letter he relates this anecdote: "You may expect another explosion of mad poetry from Lord Byron.
Walker wish me to present their best respects to you. We had delightful weather for travelling, and got home just in season to escape Saturday's rain." Morse and his wife go to Charleston, South Carolina. Hospitably entertained and many portraits painted. Congratulates Allston on his election to the Royal Academy. Receives commission to paint President Monroe. Trouble in the parish at Charlestown.
Our first illustration is from the life of Washington Allston, the great American painter. We may call it: "Praying for Bread." Many years ago Mr. Allston was considered one of the greatest artists in this country. At the time to which our story refers, he was living in London. Then he was so poor that he and his wife had not a morsel of bread to eat; nor a penny left with which to buy any.
Morse's religious convictions. More success in New Hampshire. Winter in Charleston, South Carolina. John A. Alston. Success. Returns north. Letter from his uncle Dr. Finley. Marriage Morse and his wife go to Charleston, South Carolina. Hospitably entertained and many portraits painted. Congratulates Allston on his election to the Royal Academy. Receives commission to paint President Monroe.
His journey there. Difficulty in keeping up with his class. Letter of warning from his mother. Letters of Jedediah Morse to Bishop of London and Lindley Murray. Morse becomes more studious. Bill of expenses. Longing to travel and interest in electricity. Philadelphia and New York. Graduates from college. Wishes to accompany Allston to England, but submits to parents' desires.
The insensible, the brutish, the wicked are powerful and everywhere, in everything successful; while Allston, who is everything that is amiable, kind, and good, has been bruised, blow after blow, and now, indeed, his cup is full. I am too unwell, too little recovered from the effect of your letter, to write much. Coleridge intends writing to-day; I hope he will.
His next public effort, an Address before the Literary Society of his Alma Mater, was in the same vein. He improved the occasion of the recent death of four distinguished members of that fraternity to delineate his beautiful ideal of the jurist, the scholar, the artist, and the philanthropist, aided by the models furnished by the lives of such men as Pickering, Story, Allston, and Channing.
But the life gathers interest as it proceeds. From America it extends to Europe, and we meet the names of Humboldt, De Staël, Allston, Vanderlyn, Mrs. Siddons, as among his associates even in early youth. So through Home Again and in Europe Again there is a constant succession of personal experience and wide opportunity to know the world.
He was absolutely sincere, although he may sometimes have been mistaken. In a letter dated September 20, 1812, he says: Mr. Allston is extremely pleased with it; he says it is better than all the things I have done since I have been in England put together, and says I must send a cast of it home to you, and that it will convince you that I shall make a painter.
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