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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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t to be turned from his purpose, and telling no one but his sisterof his plans, he boldly set out for Providence, and, arrived there, offered himself to the publicas a miniature-painter in earnest. He was so well received that he determined to remainthere for a time, and Avrote to his father telling him of his success and throwing himself uponhis kindness and affection for forgiveness of his rash step. No doubt he was forgiven, buthe was not destined to see his father again. He had been in Providence a little more thana year when news came of his fathers serious illness, and before he could reach home hisfather had died. Shortly after this event Malbone returned to Providence and remainedthere until the next year, 1796, when, by the advice of friends, he went to Boston, where he ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 235 met Avitli the same success that he had enjoyed in Providence. In Boston he met Allstonagain, whom he had known slightly at Newport, where Allston had been sent from his native
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CHILDS PORTRAIT. FROM THE PICTURE BY WYATT EATON. BY PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST. State of South Carolina for the benefit of his health. The acquaintance of the two artistssoon ripened into friendship, and from this time they were as much in one anothers company 236 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. as circumstances permitted. The nature of Malbones art, with the small amount of appa-ratus required, allowed of his moving about from place to place at his pleasure, and accord-ingly we hear of him at New York in 1797, then in Philadelphia, visiting the two cities alter-nately until the summer of 1800, which he passed with his friend AUston at JSTewport, and ina society where both had many dear friends in common. In the autumn of the same year,Malbone went with AUston to Charleston, South Carolina; here he met Mr. Charles Fraser,an artist by persuasion, whose friends had made a lawyer of him against his will, but whofinally succeeded in giving himself uxd to painting, and gained a considerable re

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