78 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



to his chamber in the hotel with a candle in one hand, and 

 the picture in the other, the light flashed upon it, whereupon 

 the landlady, who was showing him his room, exclaimed, 

 " Monsieur Rochambeau ! " The artist replied, " Pray 

 what do you know of Monsieur Rochambeau ! " " 0, did 

 he not always lodge here when he passed this way ? " 



Professor Silliman thus concludes the little manu 

 script volume from which the foregoing passages are 

 taken : 



I have now fulfilled a duty which I owed to the mem 

 ory of the venerable man who confided everything to me, 



and I hold in higher admiration and veneration 



than ever, the illustrious father of American Historical 

 Painting. 



