. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. pali-sades, and was estimated to contain, when full, a thousand bar-rels of powder. Near it was a watch-house. Copley was in a certain sense a pupil of Smibert, the worksof that artist having been his first studies. He married adaughter of Richard Clarke, a rich merchant, and one of theobnoxious tea-consignees. The painter acted for the consign-ees in one of the conferences with the town committee. TheClarkes had a store in King Street, and lived in the Cookemansion, previously described, in School Street. The housewas visited by a mob, and th
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. pali-sades, and was estimated to contain, when full, a thousand bar-rels of powder. Near it was a watch-house. Copley was in a certain sense a pupil of Smibert, the worksof that artist having been his first studies. He married adaughter of Richard Clarke, a rich merchant, and one of theobnoxious tea-consignees. The painter acted for the consign-ees in one of the conferences with the town committee. TheClarkes had a store in King Street, and lived in the Cookemansion, previously described, in School Street. The housewas visited by a mob, and the Clarkes with the other con-signees retired for safety to the Castle. In the old two-story house which formerly stood here Cop-ley painted some of his beet pictures, probably those of Han- A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 33^ cock and Adams among the numl)er. Here also Cliarles , father of liembrandt Peale, studied with Copley in1768. In 1774, leaving his family in Boston, Co])ley went toEngland, where he at once gained an advanced rank among the. THE SEARS ESTATE. British painters. His Death of Lord Chatliam estahlisliod hisfame, and his large picture of the Siege and Belief of Oil)raltarwas hung in Guildhall, London. He died suddenly in 1813. Dunlap relates that Copleys death was thought to have beenhastened by the following circumstance : — Some American speculator who was accpiainted with the PU]>er1)situation of Copleys house in Boston, overlooking the beiuitifulgreen and parade called the Common, made an offer to the painterfor the purchase, which, in comparison to the value of property informer davs m Boston, seemed enormous. Copley eagerly closed 336 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. with him, and sold the pro^Derty for a song compared with its realvalue. Shortly after, he, learning it was worth twenty times themoney he had sold it for, tried to undo the bargain, and sent hislawyer son to Boston for the purpose, but it was too late. The following is the history of this transact
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