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$32 railroad fare to Boston from Winchester; $12, cleaning the studio; $15 afternoon teas; and $12 for carfare in town., total $221 a year (not too bad!) That same year Adelaide married architect William Chase moved to Myrtle St Beacon Hill (later to Marlborough St., Back Bay) but kept her fathers studio for about a year, for her painting. Louis stayed with Adelaide and Willie in their moves, for the rest of his life. 

Esther chose portraiture as her field, although she tried some landscapes and still lifes. First she painted women she knew in order to build her portfolio, then began to receive commissions. She joined the B.A.S.A (I don't know what this stands for but it is an art association for painters) It held exhibits for members works and she exhibited there. She also held teas in her own studio which was another way to exhibit her work. Several families requested that she paint their children, and she painted character types at a home for elderly women where the family friend Miss Mayberry lived. 

She notes in her diary the names of some of the subjects painted between 1892 and 1896: 

Portrait of Miss Marvin
Pastel of young ClaraBaldwin
Portrait of Stark Nowell
Flower painting of Gentians
Landscape of Mrs. Bacon's bridge and willows.
Head of Murray Corse (a suitor)
Portrait of Mrs. Tyler
Portrait of Russell children

Esther became engaged to Oliver Williams in the spring Mar. 5  of 1898. He was a fellow student at a class in Architecture she attended inBoston and he had had been calling on her for a year and a half before she accepted. They married in [[strikethrough]] November [[/strikethrough]] Oct 12 1898 of that year in her father's Winchester home. The cermony was officiated by a Unitarian minister from her father's church. In their Marlborough St. apartment, most the space was given over to her easel and painting activities (a two-room apartment)

There she began:

Fullsize portrait of Oliver Williams (which OEW has)
Portrait of Mrs. Winsor
Portrait of Mr. Scott
Portrait of Mrs. Corse
Portrait of Aunt Carrie (at 188)
Portrait of Mrs. Bacon
Sketch of Adelaide
Still life in Winchester.

The summer of 1899 was spent by Oliver andEsther in the rented Vinals house in Winchester, and two weeks in September in Annisquam at Mrs. Dudleys boarding house with the Winsor couple and the Chase couple.

That fall (Esther being pregnant) they moved into a large rented house at 96 Beacon Street, plenty of room for children, and painting, and even space for

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