Identifier: historyofrisepro00dunl_3 (find matches)
Title: A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950
Subjects: Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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the field of invention. Academy. He worked and prospered in England and Scotland until April, 1829, whenhe sailed for New York, and on arrival departed for Philadelphia, going to Louisiana inOctober of that year to join his family. On April 1, 1830, Audubon and his wife sailedfor Liverpool, returning to America in August of the following year. During the year 1831 he travelled in many parts of the country, made an extended visit to Boston in 1832 and from thence in 1833 went to Labrador. In September, 1833, he was again inNew York. From New York he went to Charleston, S. C., then to Richmond, Va., andto Baltimore. In 1834 Audubon was constantly studying and painting the wild life.In April, 1834, he again went to England to remain until June, 1836, when he returnedto America, going to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, then to Charleston andNew Orleans. In the summer of 1837 Audubon returned to England. In 1839 he wasagain in New York, remaining until his death, January 27, 1851.
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EDUCATION OF AN ARCHITECT 211 I have known him, says my informant, pass hours in puzzlingover the plan of some ancient castle of romance, arrangingthe trap doors, subterraneous passages, and drawbridges, aspictorial embellishment was the least of his care, invention allhis aim. His brother would often condemn such studies, andprofiting by the salutary admonition of his fraternal counsellor,he occasionally directed his reading to history, biography andantiquities, to language, and the first principles of the mathe-matics. At the age of twenty he left the printing office, and returningto New York, a friend advised him to devote himself to archi-tecture, as a branch of art most likely to meet with encourage-ment, and one for which, by the particular bent of his mind,he appeared to be well fitted. About this time, the AntiqueSchool was opened in the apartments of the PhilosophicalSociety, where artists met to draw from the model. TheNational Academy of Design grew out of this association,

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