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Updated: June 4, 2025
"It was about the year 1812 that Allston commenced his celebrated picture of the 'Dead Man restored to Life by touching the Bones of Elisha, which is now in the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. In the study of this picture he made a model in clay of the head of the dead man to assist him in painting the expression. This was the practice of the most eminent old masters.
"That's enough," says I. "All I want is your O. K. on any terms I can make with Mrs. Murtha." "She's a hard woman," says he. "And she doesn't come by her money straight." "Nor lose it easy," says I. "She wants it back. Might talk business, though, if I could show her how " "Anything!" says Allston. "Anything to get me out!" "Now you're usin' your bean," says I. "I'm off.
Our amusements are walking, occasionally attending the theatres, and the company of Mr. Allston and a few other gentlemen, consisting of three or four painters and poets. We meet by turn at each other's rooms and converse and laugh. "Mr. Allston is our most intimate friend and companion.
Morse immediately dropped everything and hastened to Boston to pay the last tributes of respect to him whom he regarded as his best friend. He obtained as a memento one of the brushes, still wet with paint, which Allston was using on his last unfinished work, "The Feast of Belshazzar," when he was suddenly stricken.
Burr and Governor Allston wrote to each other letter after letter, of which each one seems to surpass the agony of the other. At last all hope was given up. Governor Allston died soon after of a broken heart; but Burr, as became a Stoic, acted otherwise. He concealed everything that reminded him of Theodosia. He never spoke of his lost daughter.
Allston, who was with me, experienced the same treatment, and had it not been for his uncle, the American Consul, he might have starved for the Bristol people. His uncle was the only one who purchased any of his pictures. Since I have been in London I have been endeavoring to regain what I lost in Bristol, and I hope I have so far succeeded as to say: 'I have not gone back in my art.
I am done painting the gallery, and have finished my drawings for the frieze. Thank you for your good wishes. I thought Mr. Allston knew how proud I am of being considered his student. Tell him, if he thinks it worth while to mention me at all in his letter to Delaplaine, I shall consider it a great honor to be called his student.
It is needless to say that this generous offer was accepted, and Morse at the same time presented to the Academy the brush which Allston was using when stricken with his fatal illness.
Assassination of Perceval, Prime Minister. Execution of assassin. Morse's love for his art. Stephen Van Rensselaer. Leslie the friend and Allston the master. Afternoon tea. The elder Morse well known in Europe. Lord Castlereagh. The Queen's drawing-room. Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. Zachary Macaulay. Warning letter from his parents. War declared. Morse approves.
"He bet me five last night I couldn't find it, and I took him. Of course, after that I had no right to ask him anything, and he thought I was funny. He said I couldn't find out if the landlady's hair was her own. I went him another five on that." "How do you say we ought to go?" said Bertie, presently. "Quincy, I'm sure." They were now crossing the Albany tracks at Allston.
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