Figure 4. — Abram Clark, painted by his son Alvan 

 Clark. This miniature portrait owned by Mrs. 

 Albert W. Rice is in the Worcester Art Museum, 

 Worcester, Massachusetts. 



opportunities to study art. Although he was not a member, he exhibited 

 at the National Academy of Design as early as 1829. 5 This academy had 

 recently been founded by Samuel F. B. Morse as a protest by the younger 

 artists against the established, and exclusive, American Academy of Arts. 

 In 1830, and for many years thereafter, Clark also exhibited at the 

 Athenaeum Gallery in Boston," and his pictures were often shown at 



5 National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826- 1860, vol. 1. Also, 

 private correspondence with Alice G. Melrose, assistant to the director of N.A.D. 



« Mabel Swan, The Athenaeum Gallery, 1827-1873 (Boston, 1940), pp. 181, 212. 



