MASTERPIECES OF THE SEA
He was usually reticent until animated by some lurking memory or the wish to make plain a conviction.
Among the summer journeys there were two rather adventurous ones with his wife, the first to the wild western coast of Ireland, when they drove over four hundred miles in jaunting cars, and another to the extreme north of Scotland, including the Orkney and the Shetland Islands. He found many subjects and much inspiration in both places. During the Scotch trip they journeyed for a while with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
Then, the winters spent in the Channel Islands, especially on Guernsey, were also full of fruitful results in his art, but he always came back to Newport with a feeling of happiness in his own home which no foreign excitements or "Reiselust" ever dispelled.
But, in 1899, the tranquil flow of Mr. Richards' ideal family life at Newport was interrupted by the loss of "Gray Cliff." The United States Government wanted the commanding site for a fort, and there was no appeal.
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