text:  His birth--his adoption of painting as a profession (for he was originally destined _pulverem collegisse_ in the drier duties of a miller)--his marriage after a long attachment on which parents had looked frowningly but which the lovers by patient endurance and confidence in each other brought to a successful issue--his death just when he had begun to feel that the truth and originality of his style were becoming better appreciated both abroad and at home; these with the hopes and fears and anxieties for a rising family which diversify the married life with alternate joys and sorrows form in truth the only incidents in his history