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[[strikethrough]] Homes of the Old New York City Artists [[/strikethrough]]
National Academy of the Arts of Design-- Its Founders.

It has been common to note, and call to view with pleasure to many, the retirement and residential Homes of the poets and literary men of the past. But I do not remember ever to have seen any such notice taken under similar circumstances of the Painters sculptors and others of the Arts of Design.

Prior to 1825, the Artists [[strikethrough]] in the Arts of Design [[/strikethrough]] in the City of New York were but little known to each other [[strikethrough]] even [[/strikethrough]] - deemed of little account in the portily doings of the City, or in the Social status of its society - "Combination" of its professors either for social or intellectual improvement was entirely unknown - true there were many instances amongest them of great moral worth and equally attractive professional excellence not surpassed to the present day, but they were few and not sufficient to leven the mass to the required standard of public opinion, and however unjustly, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] individual sins. [[strikethrough]] of one [[/strikethrough]] were visited on the whole, and the Artists as a body were generally considered a peculiarly jealous, erratic, impracticable set - "Who could never be made to agree with others" even with each other. And of no service whatever outside the walls of their studios and the practice of their Art. [[strikethrough]] And [[/strikethrough]] Even the Art itself was deemed only an ornamental one and useless so far as advancing the City in its growing wealth and business importance 
I regret to be compelled to confess - that there were instances well calculated to give color to