American critic and traveler, born in Boston, MA, on the 20th of August 1818; traveled extensively, visiting California, Mexico and Central America; and served as United States Consul in Honolulu, establishing a newspaper there, the Polynesian. He published a history of the Sandwich Islands, and having traveled in Europe produced Art Hints (1855) and Art Studies (1861), being critical considerations of famous pictures and statuary. He resided alternately in Paris and Florence for a long time, meanwhile accumulating a gallery of old masters, illustrating the history of Italian art, which subsequently became the property of Yale College. Italian Rambles (1884) and The Art of Japan (1876) were later works of his. He died in Switzerland on the 28th of June 1888.
