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of their youth - “Why did we ever buy that picture?” Aunt Anne Daniels would not retire her moonlight scene. Our moonlight scenes were sent to the auction room, or to the church fair raffle, or something or other. But Aunt Anne Daniels kept hers and admired it greatly. Her tastes could not be moved. Fashions didn't exist for her and she didn't go to the modern art shows. When the French Impressionists began to be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, she ceased going to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and admired her Murphy. At any rate, I happen to know that, she not having thrown away her Murphy, it was inherited by her daughter, and then by her daughter's daughter, who is a kind of a second or third cousin of mine. That daughter has been offered in the last few years about $5000 for it and told that it is now regarded as very fine, very handsome, and so forth and so on.

The same is true of George P. A. Healy who painted the Lincoln that has now been bought by the government of the United States and hangs in the state dining room of the White House. Healy was another artist of that same period, who was a good artist, but painted the story picture. It was just a chance that he did Lincoln. Anyhow, he painted well. His works also increased in value through the years.