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Excerpt from Exhibition of a Selection From the Work of Charles M ryon Charles M ryon was born in Paris in 1821, the natural son of an English father and French mother. From his father he inherited that strong tenacity of purpose and English determination, of which more than one instance is recorded; from his mother, his genius and powers of imagination, with a highly sensitive mind, and a tendency to be ever in excess, as well as the germs of that malady, which was in the end to carry him off, as it had his mother before him. The care of the father for the son seems to have been limited to the supply of sufficient sums of money; and the education of the child and boy thus devolved upon the mother, who was, in many respects, but ill fitted ifor such a charge. His studies, however, were not neglected; and in 1837 M ryon entered the Naval School at Brest, which he left, two years later, to make his first voyage in the Mediterranean. During this voyage we find him already busy with his pencil, and sketching, while off the Piraeus, the choragic monu ment of Lysicrates; of which sketch he was afterwards to make such good use in his charming plate of The entrance to the French Capucin Convent at Athens, impressions of which are exhibited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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