Study for Belshazzar's Left Hand, for "Belshazzar's Feast;" verso: Belshazzar's Robe

1818

Returns to the United States, to Cambridge

Returns to the United States and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for twenty-five years. His nephews, the artists George Whiting Flagg and Jared Bradley Flagg, studied painting under him.

1820–1830s

Engravings after his paintings in gift annuals

Four of his paintings, among them “Moonlight” and “The Mother and Child” (the latter he counted among his best works), are engraved and published in the annual gift books The Atlantic Souvenir and The Token.

1826

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Is elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1827

First American exhibition, at the Boston Athenæum

Twelve of his paintings are shown at the Boston Athenæum, the first American exhibition of his work. He also exhibits five paintings at the National Academy of Design.

1830

Second marriage, to Martha Remington Dana

Marries Martha Remington Dana, daughter of Chief Justice Francis Dana, sister of the novelist Richard Henry Dana Sr. and a cousin of his first wife.