New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ES The VINO REVIEW" for August,
Is embell,hed with portraits of Gen. Scot. and Hon.
Meredith P. Gentry. /. opens with political article
on "The Wing COnvention-,be Candidate and the
Campsgn," ably discussing several of the questions at
Issue between the Wings and their opponents The
number contains Interesting articles Of literary
and artistic character especially "The Auleri.
can School Of Att in which we find notices Of Aston
Page Leutze, Hicks, and other American painters.
The following sketches are lively but certainly not
overdrawn.
PACE AND LUTTE.
Wi liam Page, after rare promise, and 10 certain
extent, adequate fulhment has for several years
added little TO bis lame The reason is, that he mss de-
voted bis time TO experimental processes OF producing
hue and texture, thus taxing it not exhausting ais in
teectual resources. Not such the course of the
honest old artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth
turies their aim always first to express and psr
peuate an idea by means OF the simplest NEE lsDical
use Of the pigments always OF course under the con-
troll of their common sense aud experience Bat yet
large is the intellect employed By Mr. Page that if
the werk be simple head, devoid of good or even of
respectable color, red blue according to his notion,
twill still possess so much truth OF drawing Ehat he
viii wear inestimable cham. One Of his last works
done in Florence, and in Ara Uuion gallery Ia
poor in almost every respect In the hrst place. Vr
Gin and Child can only be painted By one who accepts
The tradition Of the Church and represents the charsc
tiers accordingly This picture IS not the least In that
Ipiiit Joseph s abominable and there thoughtful
and mature EXPRESSION IN the eyes of the child tna s
not chldlike. Probably, however, Mr Page thought
himself privileged to ideaZe /, i.,e, but one must
rather regret that he forgot exercise the Earno prv
legs in the Of Mary and Joseph. Vita Dir. Page
the production Of picture il an Intellectual operation,
and Is infinite ply that ne has never genuile ar
isc idea to eNpe for he has intellect enough to paint
vprks as great as Paul VerOnese or E1bens
No two artists could WORE from points Of view more
unlike than Pege ana Leutze the In1nizias the
smallest quantity OF few pigments by process upon
process, slower and slower, uut te1Ousness becomes
disgust to produce blue red or yellow tone or nue IN
flesh and wasting the finest lvers 10 express whlts
really OF little importance after II IA done; AID the
other slsshng and dAsaing away WIN brushes ana
paints TO depict some thought or iancy, regardless
whether his tPth-tints are red or yellow, and, "a
were merely 70 safe the appetite for some sort Of nc
syity. Thus he runs the gauntlet rom saieign and
Queen Elizabeth TO Washington crossing the De ware,
occasionally painting an exceedingly poor landscape
ilurrng and blurring his pictures, making thsm no"
good now abo Unable but ways betraying ceriatn
physical force and clustering vgOr. with al
occasional dash of sentiment as exquisite and delicate
in conception as Il Is detective and careless In eX-cG
ton IN bis Capture of the Nican TeOcali there 10
an example of this. Up the steps which lead 70 the
immense altar the summit, the contest RACES n
widest confusion between ;Ae invading Spanards ID
native Aztecs. There human figures OF moniro1s
length are thrown into most nconceivable pofurcs
You can hardly surmise wh;h Of those convulsed aud
struggling bodies claim the ownership of certain Dis
peried heads, legs and arms nor do you care. You
perceive there 10 night by which you are nowss en-
oangered and you 90 looking about the picture for Do
ects Of peculiar interest Presently your eye rests on
group Of two hgures In the len, monk shrVlas a
diving soldier il IS passage Of genuine pathos 80
In the Washington crossing the Delaware the sick sol
der wrapped In a blanket, with mis- pale, hag ard
cheek and acklustre eye, bent and shiverng the
cold wind Is touchingy and genuinely truet the
probabilities almost to redeem the picture as work
| Of art
acter TOO much Of costume and accessories, a. II It
uere a fabian UirGnt: TOO much dependence upon the
background opposing force Ia the prncp!s OF ei
feet: and too ittle reliance upon the expression Q;
couptenance which the manly souls and patriotic
hearts OF those brave must have carried into that
hour Of mighty import And Jet the figures are com
po,ed With clear perception of vigorous move lent,
and there is throughout converting interest power
fully focaizing crntrslizng the mind, 80 In At the
picture at the first blow upon the eye startles and
thrills the spectator. This taken together with the H.
cidep and It's hero, so enshrned in the reyeen ATE
ton OF every An ercsn, IL The secret ~ the picture
success For besides bein untrue 20 the historical i-r
in several points viii suachTOnism upon anachrOnisin
the faces for the most part comparatively mex
| pressiye, being ST. pictures '1e or commonplace
some ofthe figures sraby drawn. and toe paint
Ing o. the clotnesis well enough. Blt while tue ci4f
ac,ers are sufficiently varied there e al unparionA'e
want OF emotional expression. Ine lace OF Nas1tns
ten 10 evidently studied irc1 LoudoL . and II hss az
ipfeNibe urhumRn quality, not - 4lted into tue SUD
lime and divine, but Tigid, n-iastic, wooden "a me
other hand the posture az n'hfr- u Lte -sIS q
that OF deyiue sstrelant nan. animated by is'a 10
the Justice OF his cause and contde u ~ himself auo
the forces Al hts cOnlmhrd Had No. LeutZe carrie
hi. preston IN the iHesmsnts d the ilte ttHils
tht. noble features Of Washington as ne lh-'r-t
Which T. mold IT, bringing he eye dod mou-l lh.'
concentrating action and nrcuess, and ntrno-'1lni
sra u,,ifyipg the who, tr would have gwen I A'
American school The COM lete idea oi "a arr- Ger
Z ,ai,'v hit iats void drusrd no eNSgEe-a'Hpn o
Va.hir -,u real arsrtrT t1r there vas t1r ~
his lie .Lch O. suity ard force 60 m'1u'7'ed - 'A
r,ildnfss cf lCest s,iftCrtTp, as never - ~ 's
tb .lis}'s,t faint of 0r,vstn CO., rebellion blt sic
Al w. may gratefully t-sl N- cute ior tne t-etdE
n ms cir,u Us. % LEI owes - ~ iet III i =.
more For thoush he has stueied twelve Or nj
tom years IN foreign school, sad poor one 4. taa
are lad 70 claim Linn IS an Amsricto, an SEA
er nail Nih sstisfsct his contribute - Ias %
,ional AFT ss loug as csn purchase and retain a.
works
THOMAS HIcK>.
Mr. Hicks Is chiefly snOsn io De puo'c iIoui P'
t,sts and cabinet pictures occssi .y eNnIoed u4
ua,t ten wears ana though We believe Is Po'
=, = n IN stueies fo- works O: larger Cro@ia, ae "a
MT vi found the favorable opportunity OF e'NOoi 4'u
,bc, an canvass. lis most ao'e pirIaIs j. q
,un.rrb ,ortrsi, of tiov Fish, IN the late eNl'osDoa
Ire Nstt.nal ACADEMY Ths, has Justly rA.ed nun -
hish rark brIh ~ih severe clucs hhu 'ho - -
lsrge We have never had the pleasure o. n.''ins VI
The original Of this picture though, - e!'~en Vi va
Work II a. been our fortune a. voto Tor aim ~" 70
Low "a I,h psi.eton End respect The progress O' a.,
utcs, c,ieer Blu, IL Is u'Pr-PF' y 70 say 'n'' u