freedom in Rome. He dressed like a dandy and spent extravagantly on entertaining friends, clients, and potential clients." His studio in Rome was in the former Baths of Diocletian, where every Friday afternoon he had open house. It was called "one of the Show Places of the Eternal City, magnificent in proportions and stored with fine art works." and many visitors left descriptions of it. "His picturesque studio in the Baths of Diocletian was the rendezvous of all important American visitors and the most prominent representatives of art." Among the visitors to his studio were: Gabriele d'Annunzio Queen of Italy Margherita of Savoy General and future President Ulysses Grant Franz Liszt U.S. ambassador to Italy John Stallo Cardenal Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe writer Annie Besant railroad magnate Melville Ingalls engineer Benjamin Hotchkiss, and Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany A lecture in his studio was attended by 150 people. He also hosted musicales there, where could be heard "the finest music by the greatest talent". Ezekiel occupied this studio from 1879 to 1910. After 30 years, the government "demand[ed] the possession of this part of the ruins as an adjunct to the National Roman Museum. On leaving there he was given by the municipal authorities the Tower of Belisarius on the Pincian Hill overlooking the Borghese Gardens, which furnished him a home for the rest of his years, while he took a studio and work rooms in the Via Fausta and just off the Piazza del Popolo." Personal life Although Ezekiel never married, he had a daughter, Alice Johnson (1859-1926). According to a census document of July 14, 1860, Alice Johnson was 10 months old, suggesting she was born in September 1859. She would therefore have been conceived at the beginning of 1859 when Moses was 14. Her mother was Isabella, a "beautiful mulatto housemaid" of his father. After graduating from Howard University, Alice became a schoolteacher and married Daniel Hale Williams in 1898, who was also mixed race. He became a prominent, pioneering heart surgeon. They lived in Chicago for much of his career. Isabella visited Moses in Rome with Alice, but returned shortly thereafter. Moses never refers to Alice in his Memoirs, and there is no record of any other contact between them. In 1872, in Berlin, he met Fedor Encke (1851–1926), the "illegitimate grandson of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia." Encke was a portrait painter later commissioned to