Excerpt from American Classics of the Nineteenth Century: The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester<br><br>T is nowhere easy for artists to fulfill their gifts, and in America it was surely harder during the last century than it is in our own. Poor Washington Allston, so full of happy assurance, collapsed before he had concluded his promising career, a victim.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.