. The Muse [1917] . THE CONFIRMATION GROUP IN THE PARLOR The plate from which this photograph of the Confirmation Group is reproduced is furnished the Musethrough the courtesy of Mr. Marshall DeLancey Haywood. It is used in his book. The Bishops of NorthCarolina, where he says of the picture: About the year 1844, the Reverend Aldert Smedes, , Rector of Saint Marys School at Raleigh,engaged William Hart to paint a full length portrait of Bishop Ives. This portrait (which still hangs in theparlor at St. Marys) represents him in the act of administering the rite of confirmation to a class of
. The Muse [1917] . THE CONFIRMATION GROUP IN THE PARLOR The plate from which this photograph of the Confirmation Group is reproduced is furnished the Musethrough the courtesy of Mr. Marshall DeLancey Haywood. It is used in his book. The Bishops of NorthCarolina, where he says of the picture: About the year 1844, the Reverend Aldert Smedes, , Rector of Saint Marys School at Raleigh,engaged William Hart to paint a full length portrait of Bishop Ives. This portrait (which still hangs in theparlor at St. Marys) represents him in the act of administering the rite of confirmation to a class of four girls. It will be remembered that it was Bishop Ives who first interested Dr. Smedes in founding St. Marys. This portrait has always been an object of special interest to St. Marys girls, and the question of whowere the originals of the girls painted in the group is an ever interesting subject of discussion now carried on inthe third The original of the Stage Coach Picture, so often used in the Muse to contrast the old days with laterones, was a drawing by Mrs. Gustave Blessner. Mr. Blessner, Musical Director at St. Marys in the 40s, hadit lithographed for use on the cover of some waltzes which he composed and had published in 1845. On thetitle page of the music, in addition to the Stage Coach Picture, was printed: The Flowers of the South. ACollection of Characteristic Waltzes, Composed for the Piano, and Dedicated to the Young Ladies of St. MarysSchool, Raleigh, N. C, by Gustave Blessner.
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