CHAPTER XVIII.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

The Practice of Art in America.--Number of women Artists increasing.--Prospect flattering.--Imperfection of Sketches of living Artists.--Rosalba Torrens.--Miss Murray.--Mrs. Lupton.--Miss Denning.--Miss O’Hara.--Mrs. Darley.--Mrs. Goodrich.--Miss Foley.--Miss Mackintosh and others.--Mrs. Ball Hughes.--Mrs. Chapin.--Sketch of Mrs. Duncan.--The Peale Family.--Anecdote of General Washington.--Mrs. Washington’s Punctuality.--Miss Peale an Artist in Philadelphia.--Paints Miniatures.--Copies Pictures from great Artists.--She and her Sister honorary Members of the Academy.--Her prosperous Career.--Paints with her Sister in Baltimore and Washington.--Marriage and Widowhood.--Return to Philadelphia.--Second Marriage.--Happy Home.--Mrs. Yeates.--Miss Sarah M. Peale.--Success.--Removal to St. Louis.--Miss Rosalba Peale.--Miss Ann Leslie.--Early Taste in Painting.--Visits to London.--Copies Pictures.--Miss Sarah Cole.--Mrs. Wilson.--Intense Love of Art.--Her Sculptures.--Her impromptu Modeling of Emerson’s Head.--Mrs. Cornelius Dubois.--Her Taste for the Sculptor’s Art.--Groups by her.--Studies in Italy.--Her Cameos.--Her Kindness to Artists.--Miss Anne Hall.--Early Love of Painting.--Lessons.--Copies old Paintings in Miniature.--Her original Pictures.--Her Merits of the highest Order.--Groups in Miniature.--Dunlap’s Praise.--Her Productions numerous.--Mary S. Legaré.--Her Ancestry.--Mrs. Legaré.--Early Fondness for Art shown by the Daughter.--Her Studies.--Little Beauty in the Scenery familiar to her.--Colonel Cogdell’s Sympathy with her.--Success in Copying.--Visit to the Blue Ridge.--Grand Views.--Paintings of mountain Scenery.--Removal to Iowa.--“Legaré College.”--Her Erudition and Energy.--Her Marriage.--Herminie Dassel.--Reverse of Fortune.--Painting for a Living.--Visit to Vienna and Italy.--Removal to America.--Success and Marriage.--Her social Virtues and Charity.--Miss Jane Stuart.--Mrs. Hildreth.--Mrs. Davis.--Mrs. Badger’s Book of Flowers.--Mrs. Hawthorne.--Mrs. Hill.--Mrs. Greatorex.--Mrs. Woodman.--Miss Gove.--Miss May.--Miss Granbury.--Miss Oakley. 285