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"… I recd your letter of the 14th and I desire to see you first before paying for the pictures. I have something to mention to you respecting them. The frames of course I will pay at any time. Knowing we can adjust them when we meet without any difficulty, I hope you will wait till I have that pleasure. Hoping that you may have all manner of felicity as a married man and that you may call your first born boy after your humble servant …"John Houston Mifflin (1807-1888) was born in Pennsylvania. An amateur poet, he studied portrait painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Thomas Sully, and began exhibiting there in 1832. In 1836-37 he was in Europe for further study, along with G.P.A. Healy and several others. On his return to America, Mifflin worked in Philadelphia and Georgia. He moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he spent four years as an itinerant artist, wandering through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, painting portraits of wealthy families, as well as… Read More