The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-13
POwell's Plcturc--De Soto.
TO TIE EpITOR OF THE HERALD.

It is very gratifying thing in the midst Of almost
approval of this painting that have among
critic sufficiently gifted to the beams in the eyes
of all his editorial BRETHREN well being gifted with
knowledge and judgment Of practical art, sufficient to
combine in himself the double character of connoisseur
an critic. This isolated and envable individual has
u ashed that well edited and very readable journal the
Sunday Courier, with the ultinatum upon the sub
ect in these words.-"T The picture, now has moth
ing whatever to recommend it, its subject IS In
scrutable, in all its groupings, details, sentiment
and coor-it is to say the least extremely deficient"
In addition to finding all these things out, which
the rest Of the community have failed to do the same
tute and discriminating critic and connoisseur has been
unfortunate enough not what body has easily
been able to do-namely to discover its nationality 1t
the misfortune of great telescopes and great phanhro
psts to be able to discern objects distinctly unless So
parated from them by great distance and 1t is difficult to
adjust the specuum that happy medium between that
mm instrument manufactured for Sir John Herschel
Richard Asams Locke and the minute vation OF
the microscope. Macintosh was quaint enough to re-
mark of Wordsworth in reply to those who called the late
laureate "a small man. that it probably owing to
the fact that he strobe far before them that he OWN
But such cannot be the objection In this for the
modest connosseur and critic generously informs us that
i've much accustomed to good works of art in
New Yok to have such paintings this national ono of
Mr. Powell exhibited to u.s. We opne from this that he
must have visited the Dusseldorf Gallery with Mrs. pot
upon Our best Society," or, Our New Livery who
thought it must have taken Mr. Dusseldorf great while
to paint all of those pictures"
Our well posted and acute critic does not descend
to the retail business of saying what is Questionable, but
moitur impos,i lets 1t gently down to Wholesale
perdtion companion for the other poor things in
the rotunda of the Capitol" OF those who Dead that
undertook adorn the Halls Congress- suppose there
is no way of rapping them the knuckles except
through the medium of the spiritual Knockers but for
the unfortunate gentlemen Messrs. Weir, Chapman and
Powell who have thus had their existence made msera
BILE forever and their boted out from the scroll of
fame by the of this powerful critic We can but chaunt
for them misirere.
1t is lamentsby sad, the critic connosseur informs
us, that De Soto stumbled upon the Mississippi three
hundred years ago. long time before our ancest n came
to America. He was Spaniard and had nothing
whatever do with beyond the circumstance of hav
ing from the Indians portion of the territory
which We afterwards gained by purchase"
Now, these unanswerable truths for If Christopher
Col lmbus and he Soto remained to this day in SPAIN
they might have with Captain West, in
one OF the Collins ne in much less time for less money
and far pleasantly together with finding thatcher
under the h' provided with excellent steam ferry
boat and n quantity of Cincinnati pork and Kentucky
whkey which would have been found very refreshing to
the Adventures
We very sorry to that Messs Columbus Do Soto
Captain John Smith and the Pilgrims foreigners IL
they had waited until this writing our friends Maxwell
naturaized the easily Martin KosEta Or II they
had been artists they would have found that their being
born outside of this continent and Europe would have
been great blessing at this day to Them to be
aregner is strong objection to dscoverer but an i'm
merit to PAINTER. OCClDENT,