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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
s well as Sypher in New York, found in him a customer who rarely questioned their prices. He bought a large number of oil paintings, chiefly in Washington and Boston,—some well done and others quite indifferent, paying extravagant prices, and being easily imposed upon as to value and artist. His paintings and engravings were bequeathed to the Art Museum of Boston. The latter are still in the Museum, but the paintings, except about a dozen, were sold. The experts, of whom the late Charles C. Perkins was one, decided that the grade of those which were sold was not high enough for permanent exhibition. The fund derived from the sale was applied to the purchase of casts, which are marked Sumner's bequest. He had a large number of engravings,—for these he had a better eye than for paintings,—many of them from the old French masters. The City (a New York magazine), January, 1872, containing his article on The Best Portraits in Engravings, shows his genuine interest in the art, and <