journal of dreadful voyage home, 186-195
    experience at Dover (1814), 313
    see ship carrying Napoleon to St. Helena, 379
  Art career in America:
    lack of demand, 1, 196
    Adams portrait, 196
    portrait painting in New Hampshire (1816-17), 197, 201-209, 213
    settles down to portrait painting, 200, 217
    as portrait painter, 200, 216, 258, 438
    on painting quacks, 206
    portrait painting at Portsmouth, 210-212
    Langdon portrait, 211
    at Charleston (1818-21), 214-217, 219-226, 229-237
    and J.A.  Alston, 215, 224, 226, 233
    voyage to Charleston (1818), 219
    on R.A. for Allston, 222
    Monroe portrait, 222, 226, 234
    thinks of settling at Charleston, 223
    at Washington (1819), 226, 227
    (1821), 240; (1824), 265
    (1825), 261
    trouble over Mrs. Ball’s portrait, 231-234
    and Academy at Charleston, 236, 236
    trip through Berkshires (1821), 238, 239
    painting of House of Representatives, 240-242, 262
    gift to Yale (1822), 242
    DeForest portrait, 243
    search for work, absence from home (1823), 244
    (1824), 257
    at Albany, lack of success there, 245-249
    Moss Kent portrait, 246
    plans for settling at New York, 246-249
    James Kent portrait, 248, 250
    and advancement of arts, 249
    studios at New York, 249, 257, 274, 291
    initial failure there (1823), 249-252
    and Mexican mission, 252-256
    journey from New York to Washington (1824), 255
    successful establishment at New York (1824-25), 257-261, 269, 270
    pupils, 257, 2, 150, 156, 162
    Lafayette portrait, 1, 260-262, 264, 270, 272, 286
    Dr. Smith portrait, 261
    on election of Adams (1825), 263
    Stanford portrait, 270
    and founding of National Academy of Design, 276-282, 284
    as president of Academy, 280, 2, 33
    lectures and addresses on fine arts, 1, 281, 284, 285
    pecuniary effect of connection with Academy, 281
    as historical painter, 281
    informal literary club, 282, 2, 451
    electioneering (1826), 1, 288
    painting for steamer, 288
    annual address before Academy (1827), review and rejoinder, 289
    and annual exhibition (1828), 291
    casts for the Academy, 384
    divisions of life, 434
    art ambition and trials, 434
    Huntington’s estimate of, as artist, 435-437
    color theory and experiments, 436
    influence of Allston, 436
    results of distractions, 436
    Isham’s estimate, 437, 438
    hopes on return from abroad (1832), 2, 3, 20
    on New York (1833), 22, 24
    on art instruction as his future, 23, 24
    on nullification, 23, 24
    efforts to resume profession, 25, 31
    on need of refining arts in America, 26