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Reminiscences of a portrait painter (1894)

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg and Company · leaf 86

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ing my work on accountof the threatening storm. But one of theCharleston papers informed the Yankeepainter that if he had not left the citybefore the sun went down, he should betarred and feathered. My host read thearticle to me, and I burst out laughing;the thing struck me as merely ludicrous.But… … MR. &* MRS. BRYAATS LITTLE GIRL. A Sketch of my Life. 69 when bare necessities of life are obtainedwith difficulty, such luxuries as portraitsare not to be thought of. This was espe-cially true during the first part of thisterrible war; later, if some were ruined,others made rapid fortunes, and…

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