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

FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
At this season of the year most'of our artist 3
have sent their chief works to the Academy arid
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 most
notable of the ateliers of Tenth Street Studio
Building.
Mr. F. E. Church is rapidiy progressing with Lis
great work, " Jerusalem," fur which this eminent
painter made many careful and exhaustive studies
during a recent visit to the Holy Land. The pre-
sent indications are that this picture, when com-
pleted, will present the finest and grandest realiza-
tion of the Holy City and its sacred environs ever
yet painted. When it is finishe l a full account of
the painting will be given in these columns.
Mr. Thomas Le Clear, as usual, is full of com-
missions for his matchless portraits of old gentle-
men. Old men, with wisdom in their heads and
money in their purses, always seek the aid of Mr.
Le Clear's genius to hand them down to posterity.
If your correspondent were an old man of note,
with
the requisite amount of cash, lie would select this
master to transfer his image to canvass and to im-
mortalit y.
Mr. Seymour J. Guy, an artist of English birth,
and one of whom his countrymen may justly feel
proud, is fully occupied with orders from patrons
who are willing to pay good pricesfor fine pictures.
Mr. Guy, having just sent out one or two remark-
ably clever genre subjects to the exhibition has Do
picture in his studies completed. He is now
engagoi on a cabinet full-length portrait of 3
child, which promises to be another little gem in
its way.
Mr. J. G. Brown, also an Englishman by birth,
is one of our most popular genre painters, and his
works are much sought after by amateurs and col-
ltctors. 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
turn, and, it must be owned, with the happiest re-
sults. One of the latest and probably best exam-
ples is a cabinet p:cture, entitled " Hope," a char m-
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 sentimental
'feeling, whilst the artistic execution is excellent.
Mr. E. L. Henry, a youthful looking but talented
artist, who finished his studies in Paris, is prob bly
without a rival in this country in his speciality—
, architectural interiors and street views on a very
small cabinet scale. His colouring an 1 handling
is very chaste and beautiful. One of Mr. henry's
most 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
street views filled with figures, showing high quali-
ties of composition and execution.
Mr. IV. H. Beard, industrious, and fertile in
imagination and invention,is always producing fresh
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 additional
cartoon for his new work, about to be published,
entitled " Susannah and the Elders," representing
a sw'an in a lake or pond surprised by a couple of
ravenous-looking owls. The cartoon is capital in
drawing, expressing infinite humour, and telling
the story with irresistible effect. It is expected
that this work, when completed, will be one of the
mO4 cl-eided hits of the day.
Mr. Worthington Whittridge, one of the ablest re-
presentatives of our landscape school, and an artistof
culture, has On his easel a landscape called" The Trout
Brook." It is not quite fiui-hed, but it has so nearly
approached completion that its fidelity and truth
to the wild beauties of those mountain streams,
characteristic of Pennsylvania, may rt adily be seen.
The picture is full of subtle effects. 'The 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 foregiound—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 all present indications, will not be likely to
lose his hold. As a portrait sculptor, he I<<s few
equal 3. While his modelling is classical iu ci rrect-
ness of form and anatomical detail,• he exhibits
great mastery in some of the higher attributes of
the art. Ile seems to embody the finer elenlints
of character in his reproductions in clay, indivi-
dualizing with the nicest discrimination, and, thus,
like the friendly biographer, perpetuating all the
nobler and more refined qualities of his stibj ,et,
and generously consigns the faults to oblivion. The
genius of the artist is exemplified in his admirable
statue of Major-General John Selgwick, who was
killed at the tattle of Spottsylvania, in 1864. 'This
statue, a commission from a committee of the
officers of the 6th Army Corps of the Army of
the Potomac, was cast from bonze cannon and set
on a monumental pedestal, erected at the West
Point Military Institute. It is a splendid memo-
rial to the fallen hero. Mr. Thompson has also
in his studio clay models of the bust of Wm. Cullen
Bryant, the eminent poet, and of Samuel Finley
B. Morse, the great founder of the Telegraph.
Both these busts are fine tiampli,s of plastic art.
Mr. J. B. Irving, a portrait and figure painter of
some note, has one or two fine little female heads,
an I a cabinet genre picture on his easel. The hitter
is not quite fininshed, but sufficiently so to show
scme of the artist's peculiar sweetness of tint.
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Mr. It 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
tvk o 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 a former article.
[t 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-
tretneNorth. Mr. Wm. Bradford, who recently visited
the Arcti?, Regions, has now in his studio a large and
valuable collection of photograph'c and printed stu-
dies,representing a great variety 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 untravdled
amateur. One is called 4, The 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 ]aid. Another
picture, entitled " A View of Karsosook Fiord,"
showing a rock rising above the sea 1,000 feet,
Sanderson's Hope, in the distance, an iceberg, with
the steamer Panther moored to it, and an Esqui.-
maux woman's boat in the foreground.

CLOSE OF THE CUSTOMS PARLIAMENT.—The
Prussian Government sustained a defeat in the Customs
Parliament on the question of increasing the duty on
coffee, which so exasperated the Finance Minister,
Camphausen, 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." Tills
threat was almost immediately afterwards put into
execution.

BIRTHS.

Oa the Bth inst., in Hamilton-place. the Countess of Eldon
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of a sou.
On the 6th inst., at 1, Coleshill-street, the wife of Spencer
Walpole, EFq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the sth May, at. Holy Trinity Church, Brompton,
Joseph Challis, of Webb's Hotel, Piccadilly, London, to
Susan, only daughter of the late Mr. William Nutkins, o
Gloucester-road, Kensington.
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On the 7th May, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Frederick Ser
mour, youngest son of Mr. H. Banks, 4, John-street, to
Eliz.ibeth Belshatn, adopted dauphter of Mr. and grd'
Lucy Balhatn.