Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . y paH-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 Eichard Clarke, a rich merchant, and one of theobnoxious tea-consignees. The painter acted for tlie 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. Tlie housewas visited by a mob, and
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . y paH-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 Eichard Clarke, a rich merchant, and one of theobnoxious tea-consignees. The painter acted for tlie 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. Tlie 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 best pictures, probably those of Han- A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 335 cock and Adams among the number. Here also Charles , father of Eembnindt Peale, studied with Copley in1768. In 1774, leaving liis family in Boston, Copley went toEngland, where he at once gained an advanced rank among the. THE si:aiw estate. British painters. His Death of Lord Chatham established hisfame, and his large picture of the vSiege and Belief of Gibraltarwas hung in Giuldhall, London. He died siiddenly in 1813. Dunlap relates that Copleys death was thought to have beenhastened by the following circumstance : — Some American speculator who was acquainted with the sTiperbsituation of Copleys house in Boston, overlooking the beautifulgreen and parade called the Common, made an offer to the painterfor the purchase, which, in comparison to the value of property informer days in Boston, seemed enormous. Copley eagerly closed 336 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON. with him, and sold the property for a song conii)ared with its realvalue. Shortly alter, he, learning it was worth twenty times themoney he had sold it for, tried to umln tlu- l)argain, and sent hislawyer son to Boston for the purpose, but it was too late. The followini^f is the true history of this tran
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