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From forecastle to Academy, sailor and artist; autobiography (1904)

Sellstedt, Lars Gustaf, 1819-1911 · Buffalo, The Matthews-Northrup Works · leaf 241

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of Buffalo, one of which* I shall always inmy memory class among the best in technique I haveever seen. When later we became intimate I asked himwhat became of it, and he told me he had lost it on atrip to Meyaquez in Porto Rico, where he had been verysuccessful in the pursuit of his art. I had… … CONJOCKITY, AGED 105PAINTED IN 1850 IN BUFFALO IN 1842 and I lost no time in placing the same pigments on myown. I found that they produced improvements in myefforts, and then, too, I made another discovery; by theuse of a badger I could get a smooth surface ^- to mea great desideratum, and I began…

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