The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-30 00:00:00

DR. RIMIER'S ART SCHOOL.

A New York paper of recent date, of which I have scen,:
slip, says that immediately on the exhibition of t r. Rinune.,.
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great picture of ":Venus Listening to Cupid's Account O!
his Exploits," it was bought by a connoisseur for slo,ouk
I am not at all surprised; for though e
I saw the picture 'it,
fore it was quite finished, felt it was a master-piece, Pug,
Wig Dr. Rimmer in rank with the old masters of pain
as his "Fighting Gladiator Wounded'. put him high ano`";('
the masters of sculpture. I hope the connoisseur will all
to
the picture to be exhibited in Boston, before it is pet
his gallery ; for even the admirers of Dr. Rimmer's sou
ture here will be surprised to see how great a painter 13°,1;
We hope that the intimation that he isabout to abandon `,l,;f
position as director of the Cooper Institute of Design 11.1
Women has no foundation in fact, for this school of 'at
justifies the suggestion of an English critic and greto
admirer of his fighting and wounded Gladiator, 5,
whom was told his method of teaching a class in
ton—" he could make the greatest school of art in; t 0
world; for in no European school aro the pupils taugh"At
draw from knowledge, but always from dead models." 110
the Cooper Institute he is the sole director and teacher, 9,4 t
it is very wonderful to go into that long suite of rooms f!o'lg
see all the variety of works ; in one only is any drano
from casts. The lessons in drawing are received by t 1,5,
claSses, who go into the lecture room with their sketch boo
while he stands at the blackboard, and, with chalk in b"%il
illustrates to the eye all the inward machinery of muscle ad
nerve that affects the outline, as it varies with the action "0
expression. He then gives them problems to solve 'o°llo
their lines, how to draw tbo back, for instance, of a man 11)
is twisting a branch from a tree, or hauling a bucket frgde
a well, etc., etc.; and then criticising the drawings
by caricaturing the errors in his own copy, and drassibe
the inward parts within the outline to show
iol,
contradiction of truth made by the false lines. In gen'De
teaching to draw is merely setting the pupil to draw by,
0
eye, and at the best pointing out the mistakes made
is like teaching music, by the ear, instead of by scieu,'o
method. But Dr. Rimmer shows his pupil why the nlis'efe
is one, and supplies the specific knowledge to the very
tid
as well as mind, that will prevent a recurrence of it 013
ensure the right lines. Another exercise is to presen,ii,
object of nature or art, and let it be studied very thoronPri,
and then to remove it and let each draw it from mere te
and still another is to give a mere glance at an object tier
reproduced from memory. He also proposes that at a 001,
tain stage of progress some should, on their way to solij
observe some man or animal in a moment of action,
,se
then attempt to reproduce it from memory. Ile showe'se
on the blackboards of one room, where these exercises
.0,1
made, several }wises, boys, men, dogs, in attitudes that ler,
needs have been momentary ; and they were svoo
ful. In some rooms were young ladies with sitter „Di
their portrait , to be taken in crayon or oils, and eta
liikenesses were excellent. In another room ladies .;i0
paintng the most lovely groups of flowers, whose 11tbeif
prototypes were before them, arranged according to 00
own taste. I saw no poor work of this or any kind.
~oecl
young lady was finishing quite an elaborate picture, TOO.
the trial of St. Stephen, which was her own eornpostivieril
and, in the thronged sculpture room, there were 6,edieo'
statues, which were original works of the young "3 yoi
Thus were going on at once crayon drawing, water-c?,_ of
painting, oil painting of historical and ideal subjecT
portraits, flower painting, and sculpture, and it seems
me that the work was of singularly high order in all j:1!
kinds. Dr. Rimmer is present from nine till one everfol
in the week, and visitors are admitted only on F:,efeo
except by special permission of Dr. Rimmer. On du 00
days he takes into the lecture room different classeVe
special points, and 3very day from twelve till one theii"
school listens to a lecture. The 150 lectures o'ool
course take up the general principles of art, ancl.,tott
subject that it behoves an artist to be familiar with-0 011,
costumes, manners and customs, forms of arcbltr, 1,11
and manufactures, ethnology, the mythology
nations, and, in short, whatever cultivates wet
imagination or defines the limitations of ns'or
It would take a half dozen different men together t°
ply Dr Rimmer's place; and even if he could, b'
by giv;9f,
Wo'
teaching, bestow on his country several more- lv r,al).
art, as great as his Gladiator and his Venus, it Wow 00
be doing so much, after all, for American art ae 09!
school is doing, under his direction, and which n°
person excepting himself could direct. For to
ogle
method, which others might and doubtless v. tico,,
adopt, he adds a personal power of illust!iftiv,;
that is only possible to original genius. "They Is?, tic,
draw an outline after," be said, "when my outline 140,
full of a life that I can only give by exertions that coyroel
with perspiration and make my heart beat. I cannot itie
face expressing anger that they will feel and eopY 'w,selro
for the time being in imaginary experience angry in.7f ipe"j
Luckily Dr. Rimmer is at the age when he is more
than of an individual ; and personal ambition is syqfietlll,l
up in the higher sentiment which is better gran
making living artists than any work of art which
reproduce itself.—Boston Advertiser.

An extraordinary scene was witnessed in
A private of the sth' pragoon Guards, named Ell"' 5e r;
had been tried by court-;partial and was awaiting I'4
tence for having'absented himself without leave °l.,_ V:#
to Barnsley,pretending that he was sent to make
arrangements there, while being removed by a rt;
away, and fled for a considerable distance from t"-pti°
racks. He was pursuedby the soldiers, and was fir
and was at last caught and taken back.

BIRTHS.
On the 26th inst., at 33, Hill-street, Berkeley-square'
Eustace Wilson Patten, of a daughter.
oVie of
On the 27th inst.. at Ditchleys, Brentwood, tha
". Albert Deacon, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
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On the 25th inst., at St. Peter's. Phie,u,s,oare, "„,10"
Burnett, Esq., to Fanny Atlol4-19,. daughter of
Gilpin, Esq., o Cannock,
Aaej, On Ascension Day, at 4he Church of St. Mary of t-6 01-4
Bayswater, s f•• td,'Brien to Henrietta Caroline, Or
daughter of k.J. Meyers, Esq., of Westhourne-park
Bayswater.

DEATHS: bifr
On the 26th inst., at Clapton, Edward Boulger, a
aged 53..
On the 26th inst., at Abbotsford Nroirr
, Highbury y
Henry Turper, aged 71.
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