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 In America. 653 Elisha, which gained a prize of two hundred guineas from the British Institution. It is now in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Then followed the Liberation of S. Peter by the Angel, now in the Worcester Lunatic Hospital ; Uriel in the Sun, in possession of the Duke of Sutherland ; and Jacob's Dream, in the Petworth Gallery. In 1818, Allston returned to America, and settled at Boston, with his health weakened by sorrow for his wife, lately deceased, and by over-work. In the same year he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. Of the works which he executed in the following years, we may notice, the Prophet Jeremiah, now in Yale College ; Saul and the Witch of Endor ; Miriam's Song and Dante s Beatrice. In 1830, he married again, and settled at Cambridge, Mass., where he spent the rest of his life. His Spalatrds vision of the bloody hand, from the 1 Italian ' by Mrs. RadclifFe, was formerly in the Taylor Johnson Collection in New York. The works of Allston, the "American Titian," are especially remarkable for the beauty and power of colour. In his subjects, he was fond of the terrible, especially noticeable in Spalatro's Vision, Saul and the Witch of Endor, and in his unfinished Belshazzars Feast. He painted many excellent portraits. That of Coleridge, by him, is in the National Portrait Gallery. Samuel F. B. Morse (1791—1872), of telegraphic fame, practised for some years as a painter. He was a pupil of Allston, and one of the founders in 1826, and second president of the National Academy of Design. He aban- doned art as a profession in 1839. John James Audubon (1782 — 1851) was born in Louis- iana, and studied in Paris under David. On his return