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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 19: (search)
e specimens of the fine arts, in the study of which he found a solace for his senatorial cares. His rooms were crowded with the works of genius,--rare and costly books, beautiful paintings, engravings, illuminated pictures, medallions, statues in bronze and marble,--so that they had almost the appearance of a museum of art. Among other paintings in his bedroom was a landscape representing Ellen's Isle, painted by a colored artist. In the dining-room was a bas-relief of Christ as the Good Shepherd, taken from the Catacombs of Rome. Among countless curiosities in his study, there was a photograph of John Bright, plainly framed, which was once owned by Mr. Lincoln. Among his other treasures of art were an Ecce Homo, after Guido Reni; The Miracle of the slave, by Tintoretto (bequeathed to his friend J. B. Smith); a portrait by Sir Peter Lely; and pictures of the Giotto of Florence, the grand staircase of Versailles, and the facade of the Louvre. These last three things, said Mr. Sumn