. Abbe-Abbey genealogy, in memory of John Abbe and his descendants. try of England, but after his household goods had reachedAmerica he weakened and the unpacking was not done until they got back to England. At Broadway in Worcestershire, Abbey found friends and there he lingered, gatheringmaterial for his drawings. A friend of his said that in the wonderful garden of RusseUHouse, the home of Frank Millet, he had often seen, on the same morning, each paintingfrom his own model. Abbey, Sargent, Miller, Alma-Tadema and Alfred Parsons. It wasat hospitable Russell House that Abbey first met Miss M
. Abbe-Abbey genealogy, in memory of John Abbe and his descendants. try of England, but after his household goods had reachedAmerica he weakened and the unpacking was not done until they got back to England. At Broadway in Worcestershire, Abbey found friends and there he lingered, gatheringmaterial for his drawings. A friend of his said that in the wonderful garden of RusseUHouse, the home of Frank Millet, he had often seen, on the same morning, each paintingfrom his own model. Abbey, Sargent, Miller, Alma-Tadema and Alfred Parsons. It wasat hospitable Russell House that Abbey first met Miss Mary Gertrude Mead of New York,who later became his wife. Here, too, he had the good fortune to meet Alfred Parsons,and Alfred Parsons had the still better fortune to meet Abbey. Then and there beganthat wonderful collaboration, the result of which for many a year charmed the artisticworld. Successful, from every point of view, as were the illustrations for Herrick, and Gold-smith, and Shakespeare, he yet longed to be a beginner in other fields of art, not that he. Edwin Austia^ Abbey, ; American Painter, Decorator and Illustrator Eighth Generation 373 might make a fortune or win applause, but that he might have the joy of wandering in anew region. He bought an ancient house at Fairford, Gloucestershire, some fifty milessouth of Broadway. Here he built a large studio and entered the lists as a painter ofEnglish romance and history. In 1891 he began the famous Holy Grail, a series for the Boston Public years later his Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Anne won him In two more years he became a full Academician. The work, however, whichbrought him his greatest recognition in England was his painting of the coronation ofEdward the Seventh, by command of the king. In the State Capitol at Harrisburg,Pa., are eight murals, of such widely different character, being wholly symbolic subjectstreated in a modern manner, that he was compelled to leave the
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