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His style, eminently his own, was intensely idealized and presided over by a judgment at once exquisite and profound.

His professional studies were finished at an unpropitious time for establishing himself in New York in the business of pictorial engraving-mainly on account of the great prostration in commercial affairs and the sympathy, art with other things feels in the revulsions of commerce; and being ambitious of availing himself of his art for the needful improvement of his fortune, more rapidly than appeared practicable except in some of the more prac tical departments, he, after a time, established at Albany a firm for the engraving of Bank Notes. Many of the bills of the early free banks of New York, bear the impress of his talents or of his skilful supervision.

Among other productions of his brain, were the powerful likenesses of Judge Buel, Dr. March, the Albany fireman's certificate, from a painting by his friend Page, &c. Perhaps the most interesting of all the vignettes engraved by him for bank note purposes, is one from a composition by himself, and representing a goddess seated upon a crag, enticing the "bird of Jove" from his high place, to stoop and drink. This subject is allegorical the allusion being to the seductive power of beauty. Richness of fancy and his great artistic skill and force are admirably displayed in this little picture.

He continued in this business for several years, with success and increasing reputation, but in the end the hopes he had formed from it were not realized; for the business was subject to reverses, on account chiefly of its political connection with the state; and when the business of the free banks was withdrawn (as it was unexpectedly) it left him with some heavy engagements arising from change of partnership, &c., that would not have been incurred but for reliance on the state business. In the fall of 1840, with impaired health, growing out of the anxieties of managing an extensive concern, he most unfortunately engaged in Daguerreotyping, though then an embryo art, which could only be made available by an extended series of experiments, exposed to the unhealthful fumes of the necessary materials; and though remarkably robust from early childhood, and without ever having experienced serious illness, in less than a year he had laid the foundation for the total ruin of his health, which sank irretrievably under the anxieties and unhealthful application which it exacted. Prof. Horsford (now of Cambridge University) was associated with him in the Daguerreotype experiments. A friend who knew him well, in noticing his decease, says:

"This afflictive though not unexpected stroke must be most ' He d. at Albany, says the Argus, 17 Nov. 1841, ae. 26. Was unm.