Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-10-01

JOHN VANDERLYN one OF the earliest. a. be lonr
continued 70 De one OF the most eminent, Of Ameri]
can dlea q his residence Kingston Ulster
county New York on Thursday esenno Ile ,vas I,
born in the same town. just seventy-sx Wears ,
about three months after the Declaration af a,r N
tional Independence had been made He ma have /.
said therefore to have beenju as old as the ma
ton.
The space Mr.. Vanderlyn has filed in the his.
tory OF American art renders proper that we should
lay before our readers of the details of his life
His education was received at the academy of bis|
native village. where he remained till ha yras s;xteon
years of age, when his brother brouoht him r. hi;
city visit. 1t happened that, during his visit
he fell in with Mr.. Thomas Barrow. an extensive /
dealer in engravings, who offered him a nIace as
clerk IN his store. lie accepted the offer, and re-
manned two years IN bis employment acquiring and
improving taste for fine art and during his le;s-
moments, taking lessons in drawing 1t was
there he made the acquaintance of Stuart who ner
mitted him to copy some of his portraits and there
too, he first met Col. Burr, who advanced him the
means for prosecuting his studies under the direc
ton of Stuart and of subsequently, going 10 France
1t was in 1896 that he went to Paris where he
continued his studies under the most eminent French
artists and made the acquaintance of several men of
distinction, who augured from his earlier Efforts the
highest success Alter residence of five years he
returned home to confirm their predictions His t
success among his countrymen was speedy and sig
nal but in the spring OF 1903 he went TO Europe
again to purchase large collection of mixtures ii
| Two fine views of Niagara Falls, which he painted
in the interval. had been engraved and broug him
not only wide popular fame, but the friendship of
Washington Irving, Allston, Monroe, and athers
who ever afterwards expressed the warlnest attach
ment to the man. io'1.t's
! Sojournins while at Paris, he executed his first
historical composition, the Murder of Miss Nc
Crea by the Indians incident of the barbarous
border war of New York, which he treated with re-
markable force and originality. He then went to
Rome where he pursued his improvement in art
with great diligence and zeal. His copies, especial
ly from Corregio and Titan, excellent speci-
mems of skill but the large picture painted during
the second year of his residence, Z" Marius ON the
Ruins of Carthage; became his masterpiece. The
strength, dignity and truthfulness of the solitary
figure, as he sits, baied and disappointed, but not
overcome. amid the fallen columns of the old Ari-
can city his wild eyes garng around the desolation,
but his face full of the great heart of the exled Ro
man Consul. showed power of conception the
part of the artist which him the universal APP
plauSe of his brother artists while the depth and
purity of his coloring excited their admraton.-
This picture, removed to the Louvre carried off the
gold medal for the year 1903 and it has been men
toned, in proof of its merits, that Napoleon comp
l mented the author highly his genius. AS the
great Captain stole so many pictures in Italy, he
must have become connOiseur in his day.
Among the copies by Vanderlyn made at this time
\ the DQnaQ, the Antjope of Corrego. and female
figure from the TRANSPORTATION of Raphael. brought
him the most reputation, and we believe money.
The latter was retained for MANY years in the col
lection of the late Philip Hone of New York where
a it much admired by thousands of visitors and
from which it was sold at a late sale. Yet the
y Aradne, which was finished during this period of
u his life original work of singular beauty, was
Il the finest specimen of his genius.
i On his return to the United States in 1915 he was
Immediately overwhelmed with orders for portraits
among which those of several of the noted
men Of the political world, Madison Calhoun. Mon
roe, Jackson Clinton, Yates &c. But Mr.. Wander
+ lyn becoming interested in plan for the introduce
- ton of panoramic exhibitions into the United States
secured from the Corporation in this metropolis the
= privilege of erecting building for the purpose in
. the Park. He gave it the name Of the Rotundo
) and for some time engaged himself in exhibiting
k fEs fse g Tsws q. the cities of Paris Mexico Yer
Il forced him to relinq ush the undertaking. and the
y c. rporation resumed the building He never com
pletey recovered from the difficulties brought upon
&c his finances and energies by this failure. He sup
posed that he had been greatly wronged by the city
IN the course of the proceedings and his feeling
" were much embttered for the rest of his life
n' In 1882 he commissioned by the Federal Gov
eminent paint full length portrait of Washing
" ton for the Hall of Representatives for which, as
e soon as it was completed he voted additional
le recompense of 81 500 He so chosen in 1889
l fill of the vacant panels in the rotundo of tn
)" Capitol with great national picture. He remove
ne to Paris paint it, and broug ht back his Landing
~ of Columbus the result of his labors. His las
u" exhibited work full-Iength portrait OF the lat
Z" Gen. Taylor. which readers may remember t
De have seen at the Academy of Design last year.
NanQerYn mas taken his pldce UeSluc
lP All<ton Stuart &C. among the first to establls
IS the fame of America in the world of genius and art
The WEBSTER ELECTORAL TICKET.-The Courle
and Enquirer has Just learned that the friends at NJ
Webster are really getting up electoral ticket, an
think that if the movement be persevered in the resu
10 will be most disastrous to the wing party. We can
sure Col Webb that the movement 'H be persevered
es but about being disastrous the Whig party tbel
is a difference OF opinion. We think it will be til
"a salvation of the whig party 1t will save from Sew
se ardism, Greeleyism, aboonism and higher lavish
Ia any one of which would be It's ruin n Y. Dd!
&c, Book.
en- Nor FA1R.-A friend gazing on the pier, had I'll
''S misfortune slip and fall into the river. He mac
d desperate laundering for while. but fnal y caug
III a projecting timber and crawled out. little bar
a. footed fellow, with pin hook tied TO the end OF
four foot string. witnessing his aquatic pertormanc
III called out, Look here, miser-that amt fair.
' un yer goin' in after 'em I'll go!"
as THE HEBREW FAST IN New YoRK.-There was
ar total suspension of business among the Hebrews
he New York on Thursday, and religious exercises wei
as observed in all the synagogues. At the Shaary Il
ch phiia Synagogue Wooster street, the minister.
NJ. Isaacs, addressed congregation Overlooking tt
I'm church. Mr.. Raphall preached elOquentiy in tt
ne English language upon the nature of the observanH
he at the synagogue in Greenwich street At the Bet
on Israeli Centre street, there the same large alter
- dance and sermon.
''S UNCLE TOMS GAMMA sufferer of Boston writes
= "The young ladies are working fancy sketches
.orf Uncle Toms physiognomy in black worsted; the b
~ by has woolly headed doll whom she tries to ca
Topsy and my house is numbered up with fresh ed
~, ions of 80 Uncle Toms Cabin" and Aunt PhIliIs