Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-12

| AMERICAN ARTISTS IN ROME. lnurloW w ecu
writes from Rome as follows:
g We have visited the studios of Freeman and Ter
~, American painters who have been long enough IN
Rome to establish high Italian reputation With
| Mr.. Freeman's success am much gratihed for he
is professionally and personally man of decided
worth AS artist he aimed high, but by long and
devoted study and labor he has attained his mark
He goes home in May. taking with him two large
pictures, (both of which sold) which have been
greatly admired here, and will assuredy extend and
perpetuate his fame Mr.. Terry has been eminently
successful here. Like Freeman, he only paints origi
nal pictures. For his best picture Jacobs Dream)
he has orders that will require several years to exc
cute. Mr. Chapman, another American painter, Is de-
voting himself successfully to his art. His studio is
adorned with several beautiful heads, either finished
or in progress. He is also making copy OF Mu-
riIlo's Nj other and Child.
We went, of course, to the studio of the sculptor
Crawford, whose colossal statutes of Parlck Henry
and Thomas Jefferson ordered by the Legislature oil
Virginia to grace monument at Richmond, are ex'
citing universal admiration. They are indeed noble
conceptions, and noble creations, worthy In all re-
spects of the ilustrious Statesmen whose forms and
fame they are destined to Perpetuate These hgures
together with equestrian statue OF washington
are to be cast in bronze at Munich.
Mr.. Story, of Boston. son of the late eminent JUS
tce Story, is here working upon model for Stat
ute of his father.
Mr. Mosher, of New-York, sculptor of decided
genius, is rising, like most of the American artists
here, to usefulness and fame. Mr.. Wood, another
sculptor, has just finished excellent marble bust
self of his visit Europe to gather up good many
gems.
am gratifed to see that Artists here are prof.
ting handsomely by the taste and Hberality OF veal
thy Americans who have been in Italy during the
present year, 1t is quite time that more should be
done in this way, to embelIish both our public edit
ces and private mansions Our country is rich enough
now to indulge in the commendable luxury. And a
visit Italy cannot fail to bege and cultivate taste
for Art
The English and American families here have be-
guiled the winter with private hearicals under the
especial auspices of Mr.. and Mrs. Black. at whose
mansion we saw the " Merchant of Venice played
with much dramatic sprtand effect the other evening"
Among the Dramatis Persona were Mr.. and Mrs.
Story, Mr.. John G. Lowell and Mr.. and Mrs. Craw-
ford, and Mr.. Hemans, of the gifted Authoress.
have seen the works of Gibson, the best English
Sculptor and those of Powers and Crawford the best
American workers in marble. Than these three Ar
fists, there are in Italy of higher, if of equal
merit. And yet, sublime and beautiful as are the
creations of these men, there is an American, now
comparatively unknown, who is destined to equal if
not surpass them all. This is townsman, Pal
mer, who needs only course of study and practice
he with works of the great masters before him, to
take rank among the most distinguished Scuptors of
the age.