French, Harry W. (Harry Willard), 1854- · Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham · leaf 121
a boy, laughedat the idea of his having studied art, and even told him there was no onein America able to teach it. American spirit rebelled, and the boy repliedthat he had studied under a man who could teach Mr. Constable and allEngland. Mr. Constable carried out his opinion by asserting that he… … m^^ \ GEORGE W. FLAGG. better for art were America under the ocean instead of in it. Fired bythis, the boy left with a resolve to show Mr. Constable that he knew some-thing of art, after all. He seized upon a match-seller on the way to hishotel; and the result, The Match-Girl, now in the New-York…
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