. Art and artists of our time. y admired, made popular, here at home, by the engraving of Durand. FromParis Allston went to Rome, which he March, 1805. He had left London inNovember, 1803, and we do not know where he spent the intervening time, since his stay inParis was but short. It is like enough, as Mr. Sweetser suggests, that he visited Florenceand Venice, and that in Florence he painted a picture which was formerly in the Boston Athenaeum. When Allston and Vanderlyn arrived in Rome they were the only AmericanVol. III.—16 III 242 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. students in the cit
. Art and artists of our time. y admired, made popular, here at home, by the engraving of Durand. FromParis Allston went to Rome, which he March, 1805. He had left London inNovember, 1803, and we do not know where he spent the intervening time, since his stay inParis was but short. It is like enough, as Mr. Sweetser suggests, that he visited Florenceand Venice, and that in Florence he painted a picture which was formerly in the Boston Athenaeum. When Allston and Vanderlyn arrived in Rome they were the only AmericanVol. III.—16 III 242 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. students in the city. Failing their own countrymen, they Joined a group of young artistshailing from Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, and although dependent on their own meansfor support, they held their own in the company of these students, who were aided in theirstudies by their respective governments. He was the centre of a circle of admiring friends,won not so much by his painting as by his beautiful nature, his enthusiasm for his art and the. MENDING NETS. FROM THE ETCHING BY WINSLOW HOMER OF HIS OWN PICTURE. PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF C. KLACKNER. inspiring character of his thinking. It was in Rome that he met Washington Irving, andthe foundations of a life-long friendship were laid between the two young men who were onlyfour years apart in age. Irving writes: There was something to me inexpressibly fascinatingin the appearance and manners of AUston. He was of a light and graceful form, with large blueeyes and black silken hair waving and curling round a pale expressive countenance. Every-thing about him spoke the man of intellect and refinement. Here, too, he became acquainted ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 243 with Coleridge, and the friendship that began in the silent city, as the author of Christabellised to call it, was continued later when Allston was in England, where Coleridge showed himevery attention, and was constant in his devotion to him, when recovering from a long and danger-ous
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