. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . ted charge at Naples. Not long afterward he met Oxnard in Par-is. Goodwin wants to see you, said the latter ; he is in the long galleryof the Louvre. Hicks, whose finances were not in a plethoric condition—hehad left home with a small letter of credit, and with the intention of stayingaway only a year—hastened to find his late fellow-passenger. Walk downthe gallery with me, said Goodwin, and show me what you admire. Theartist had been working his brains and wrist several weeks in that gener-ously-stocked museum—ha
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . ted charge at Naples. Not long afterward he met Oxnard in Par-is. Goodwin wants to see you, said the latter ; he is in the long galleryof the Louvre. Hicks, whose finances were not in a plethoric condition—hehad left home with a small letter of credit, and with the intention of stayingaway only a year—hastened to find his late fellow-passenger. Walk downthe gallery with me, said Goodwin, and show me what you admire. Theartist had been working his brains and wrist several weeks in that gener-ously-stocked museum—had, indeed, worked himself half sick, and knew whatwas choice. Pick out some smaller samples, said the patron, when thelarger ones had been indicated to him, and we will walk back again. Cor-reggios Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine was one of the works that pleasedthem both, and Hicks received from Goodwin an order for a copy. Hespent three years in Italy. In 1847, Kensett, George William Curtis, W. , and Margaret Fuller, came to Rome, and a merry party they made,. w 0 Sj X u w •= o -5 < =2 s! ; a 0 u;Z THOMAS HI OK8. ???•: holding receptions every night. In the summer of that year Hicks, Kensett,Curtis, and his brother Burril Curtis, went to Venice and remained a June of the next year, Hicks returned to Paris at the beginning of therevolution there, entered the studio of Couture—then quite the fashionableresort for our young artists abroad—ascertained that the demerits rather thanthe merits of that painter usually descended upon his pupils, became satisfiedthat his own case was not likely to be an exception, and, after an eighteenmonths sojourn, came home. It was in the autumn of 1849 that he found himself in his studio on Broad-way, near Prince Street, and also in the Century Club, where he has heldmany positions of honor. At a meeting of the club, January 26, 1858, heread a eulogy on the character and works of Thomas Crawford, the sculptor
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