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ng, too, will revive amidst those extensive tracts, as they increase in opulence and empire, and where the stores of nature are so various, so magnificent, and so new. That was written fourteen years before the Declaration of Independence. Little could he comprehend the value of freedom, such the Americans were then about to struggle for, in the development of every department of the fine arts, of which Dean Berkeley had a prophetic glimpse when he wrote: There shall be sung another Golden Age, The rise of empires and of arts, The good and great, inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. The first painter who found his way to America professionally was John Watson, a Scotchman, who was born in 1685. He began the practice of his art at Perth Amboy, then the capital of New Jersey, in 1715, where he purchased land and built houses. He died at an old age. John Smybert (q. v.) came with Dean Berkeley in 1728, and began portrait-painting in Newport, R. I. Nathan S