The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK

,At this season of the—year mo-t of our artist;
have sent their chief works to the Academy a"d.
other exhibitions, and their studios are generally
denuded of their art-treasures. Nevertheless, it
may interest the European reader to have the re-
sults of another stroll among a few of the Blest
notable of the ateliers of Tenth Street Studio
Build:rag:
Air. F. E. Church is rapid :y progressing with Ids
great work, " Jerusalem," for which this eminent
painter made many careful and exhaustive studies
• during a recent visit to the Holy Land. The 1 re-
sent indications are that this picture, when com-
pleted, will present the finest and gran lest realiza-
tion of the Holy City and its sacred environs aver
yet painted. When it is finis Fed a full account of
the painting will be given in these columns.
i\lr. Thomas Le Clear, as usual, is full of • cern-
m-ssions fur his matchless pot traits of old gentle-
men. Old men, with wisdom in their herds and
money in their purses, always seek the aid of Air.
Le Clear's genius to hand them down io posterity.
If your correspondent were an old man f note, With
the requisite amount of cash, he world select this
master to tiapsfer his image to canvass and to im-
unrtality.
• i\lr. Seymour J. tiny, an artist of English birth,
and one of whom his countryman may jusly feel
proud, is fully occupied with orders from patrons
who are willing to pay good 'ancestor fine pictures.
Mr. Guy, having just sent out one or two remark-
ably clever genre subjt cts to the exhibition has no
licture in his studies completed.. He is now
engag d on a cabinet full-length portrait of a
child, which promises to be another tittle gem in
its wey.
Mr. J. G. Brown, also an Englishman by birth,
is one of our most 1 °pular genre painters, and his
works art much sought after by amateurs and col-
lectors. The greatest successes achieved by this
artst hitherto have been subjects of juvenile life,
with sunny landscape backgrounds. But latterly
his inspirations have taken a decidedly sentimental
jurn, and, it must be owned, w,th the i appiest re-
sults. One of the latest and probably best exam-
ples is a cabinet p-cture, entitled " Hope," a chat 'w-
ing female figure, against a light background, with
a faint indication of a crass in it. - The allegory is
expressed with much true poetic and s-ntitnental
feeling, whilst the artistic execution is excellent.
Mr. E. L. Henry, a youthful looking but talented
artist, who finished his siudies in Paris, is prob
Without a rival in this country in his•speciality--
architectural interiors and street views on a very
small cabinet scale. His colouring an I handling
is very chaste and beautiful. One of Mr. Henry's
inost recent little gems, illustrative of Longfellow's,
poem called " The Old Clock on the Stairs," is ad
. mirably treated. There are in the artist's studio
other highly-finished interiors of quaint old man-
sions and churches, as well as two or three of his
reet views filled with figures, showing high
ties of composition and execution.
Mr. \y. H. Beard, industrious, and fertile in
imagination and invention,is always producing freih
and novel ideas on canvass or paper. Among other.
things—,to which an allusion will be made at the
proper time—he has just finished an addit'onal
cartoon for his new work, about to be published,
entitled " Susannah and the Elders." representing
a s an in a lake or pond surprised by a couple of
ravenous-looking owls. The cartoon is capital in
drawing, expressieg infinite humour, and telling
the story with irresistible effect. It is expected
that this work, when completed, will be one of the
mo-t tided hits of the day.
Mr. Worthington W hittridge, one of t he ablest re-
present atiVes of our landscape school, and an art;st of
culture,has on hiseasela lan Iscape called "The Trout
Breok." It is not quite fiuilied, but it has so nearly
approached completion that its fidelity and truth
to the wild beauties of those mountain streams,
characte!istic.of Pennsylvania, may n artily be seen.
The picture is full of subtle effects. 'lll, artist has
also in his atelier a larger landscape, entitled " A
View of Long's Peak on the River Platte, Colo-
rado," one of the great spurs of the Eastern slope
of the Rocky Mountains. This work—showing an
Indian encampment on the banks of the river in
the foreground—possesses many very interesting
and excellent qualities.
Although a very young man, yet Mr. Launt
Thompson, the sculptor, has got a firm grip on one
of the upper rounds of the ladder of fame, and, ,
from alt present indications, will not be likely to
lose Lis hold. As a portrait sculptor, he has few
equals. While his modelling is classical in ct rrect-
ness of form and anatomical detail, he exhibits
gt eat mastery in some of the higher attributes of
the art. He seems to erritoly the finer elements
of character in his reproductions in clay, indivi-
dualizing with the nicest discrimination, and, thw,
like the friendly biographer, perpetuating all the
nobler and more refined qualities of his subj et,
and generou-ly consigns the faults to oblivion. The
genius of the artist is exemplified in his admirable
statue of Major-General John Se lgwick, who was
killed at the tattle- of Spottsylvania. in 1864. .:1"1143
statue, a commission from a committee of the
officers of the 6th Army Corps of the Army of
the Potomac, was cast from booze cannon and set
on a monumental pede.stal, erected at the West

Point Military Institute. Ire is a splendid im,mo-
rial to the fallen hero. Mr. Thompson has also
in his studio clay models of the bust of Wm. Cullen
Bryant, the etninent -poet, and of Samuel Finley
B. Morse, the great founder of the Telegraph•
Both these busts are fine exampb s of plastic art.
Mr. J. B. Irving, a portrait and figure painter of
,come note, has one or two fine little female heads,
,an l a cabinet genre picture on his ea-el. The latter
is not quite fininshed, but sufficiently so to show
some. of the artist's peculiar sweetness of tint.
Mr. R. W. Hubbard has two new landscapes
almost completed. One, entitled " Mount La
Fayette," a scene in the White Mountains, seems to
possess some very fine passages ; but the best of the
t%so is the smaller picture, called " Mallet's Bay,"
a noted place for duck shooting, which the artist has
treated with considerable skill.

Mr. M. F. H. De Haas, is just completing his
marine picture, " Off the coast of the Isle of Wight,"
which was noticed in alormer article.

Et is a comfortable thing to be able to sit down in
an easy chair and contemplate the wonders of the
Arctic Regions, without undergoing any of the
dangers and difficulties attending a trip to the ex-
treme North. Mr. Wm. Bradford, who recently visited
the Are!i?. Regions, has now in his studio a large and
valuable collection of phwograph;c and 'tinted stu-
dies,repr&enting a greatvariety of the more remark-
able phases of nature in the frigid north. He has also
a number of pictures, either just finished, or on the
easel, that cannot fail to interest the untravilled

,imateur. One is called "'1 he Midnight Sun," in
Midsummer, of course, which is about one hour
high ! showing some of those gorgeous colours only
to be found where these scenes are laid. Ano►her
picture, entitled " A View of Karsosook Fiord,"
showing a rock ►ising above the sca 1,000 feet,
.Sa ndet son's Hope, in the distance, an iceberg, with
the steamer Panther moored to it, and an Esqui-
maux woman's boat in the foreground.--Corre-
spoagent of Anglo-American Times.

CLOSE OF THE CUSTOMS PARLIAMENT.—TIIB
Prussian Government sustained a defeat in the Customs
Parliament on the question of increasing the duty on
coffee, which so exasperated the Finance Minister, Al-
Carnplausen, that on leaving the House, he said
aloud in the hearing of some of the deputies, "We
must get rid, as speedily as possible of a par-
liament which does not understand its mission." This
threat was almost immediately afterwards put into
execution,

BIRTHS.

On the Bth inst., in Hamilton-place. the Countess of Eldon

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of a son.
On the Gth inst., at 1, Colesbill-street, the wife of Spencer
Walpole, Ezci., of a caughter.

MARRIAGES.
On the sth May, at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Mr•
Joseph Challis, of Webb's Hotel, Piccadilly, Lando", to
Susan, only daughter of the late Mr. Wiiliain Nut'ibis, of
Gloucester-road, Kensington.

On the 7th May, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Frederick Sey-
mour, youngest son of Mr. H. Banks, 4, John-street, to
Elizabeth Bel.shatn, adopteddaupliter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lucy Balhatn.