Quarterly Bulletin was the fashion of his young manhood, and he wore a full beard. His eyes were hazel, deep-set and long, beneath a strong brow ridge. His hands were strong and beautiful. The earliest of Thomas S. Noble's great pictures was the first version of "The Last Sale of Slaves," or "The Slave Market," already mentioned as having enabled the young artist to get married. It was exhibited in 1865 at St. Louis. It represented the last sale of slaves in this country, which took place on the Court House steps in St. Louis, and which the artist witnessed. This painting, containing seventy-five figures, was purchased by William B. Howard of Chicago, in 1867, and presented by him to the Public Library of that city. It was burned in the Chicago fire. A second version was painted later in Cincinnati, different in treatment and using portraits of prominent Cincinnatians. This second "Slave Market" did not go to Chicago, but was owned by the Noble family until ig38, when it was given to the St. Louis Historical Society. The second, chronologically, of Noble's great pictures made a great stir. It showed the capture of Margaret Garner, the slave woman who killed two of her four children rather than let herself and them be returned to slavery, and, being caught, drowned herself on her way back to her former home. The picture is, in the words of Mr. John Ward Dunsmore, "graphically drawn and is remarkable in color and breadth of treatment . . . [Noble] was elected an associate member of the National Academy in recognition of the power of this picture when it was shown at the Academy in 1867." Henry T. Tuckerman, in his Book of the Artists, copyrighted in 1867, wrote: "Noble, who has immortalized the heroism of Margaret Garner, is about to achieve a greater work in rendering upon canvas that beautiful incident in the life of John Brown, when, on his way from his prison to the gallows, he gave his blessing to a negro child. The picture tells the story with marvellous power." -117-