New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-25

feeling His studio has become las that II Powers has for
years beep one Of the points Of interest IN Florence
Mr. Jackson a Young sculptor from Boston, mas peen
.pdyipy here for some months and exhibits m the lew
works have seen Of bis much promise; ms taen: Gnu
Industry and the careful study be Is devots 10 MS ART
Among our panters 10 Florence, Edwin White stands
promipeat And indeed l might say among Amaricsn
artists generally =, h' pg gS5,si in Holland made too
decided an upon the lovers OF ART VINO visited
The last two exhibitions OF academy TO DC soon forgot
ten and they will be glad 70 learn tns ne Is ssn
pg Of the famous compact on board the May Flower
which Judging from the design and the studies made fer
n rrornses 10 be much finer than the one tney
Isva already admired lie has number Of other
r;c,nres In progress most Of them illustrative OF
zone point Of interest in American History An
earnest industrious, true srit ia Edwin WINE
deeply imbaed with love of his ar-feeing its respon
bi,ies and desous 90 something 20 dignity and Illus
ate the history Of his country and to add TO her arr me
MORALS.
Our Poet Painter Reed who're poems are pictures and
whore pictures are poems is here dividing his time De
tween the two ar,s which share his love. Some very de
ehtfu pictures growing up in his studo-Poetcs "a
ption graceful in form and groaping-oIiiant yer
Harmonious in color they deserve the popularity they
have gained But successful as he Is IN painting ne y
more so in poetry; and work upon WIN ne Is nv
engaged in the hours he spares froa the abos oil MS
studio will more surely immortality II Is emu
entity American full of charming sketches OF seens s
character and will be- when completed one mo-
from what already finished not only the longest Du .ug
hest American poem yet written. M H. Is NOT Is Nh M
lnovn or appreciated 1T home as he deserves: MS
,opeeet admirers have been in England where nign I'd
ttoyifv has rIeced him a. the head OF our poets
Mr. Robertson from Washington, mas De19 Ior s 40
time uurupg bis studies here and at Rome Ia mas \,
rapid prOgretH, ana VIII soon pe icO'b"'"N- -
Mr. TAFT Young artist rom Cincinnati, has here com
rnepfed bis career Us landscapst 6nd with MS poetic
tenperament enthusiasm and love oi Desu'y, HeeuS 0
c1rfful studv and practice TO ensure excellence.
There ere but few English artists IN Florence hasS
visited the studies of but two Mr. Doos on an a
n ia cucta
;r elaborate and carefly studied pictures reputation
xsli established in England. Mr. Stanton is the desls
snd The author of come of the most exquisite pencns
ba cor een not only wonderfully delicate inexecuuon
INT full OF sut and beauty in design some OF our pun
fishers would secure the services OF such an a'st We
should soon improvement IN the ILLUSTRATORS "a o
Most of The italian painters are engaged in copying
Art il with them trade and they find employment rom
cnre dealers who pocket the lions share OF the proht
Will they are satisfied with few paIis day for tner
industry in multiplying bad copies OF inc OLD mas'es
Very few of the hundreds Of copies wnlch are annud
cold 10 eager travellers were copied directly from the ORR
inas ana many are the dution ofmadonnas and saints
which find their wey America 10 adorn me pariors Oh
our rich tourists. -.
A few only among the native artists attempt origin
ality and ii The last exhibition Of their academy or the
specnons Of their productions 20 be in their studios
are fair test Of their merit with poor success ys.ed
few days since the studio OF BaZz0, regarded Dy INC
Italians az tleir best painter | drawn there by the
repot that large and very beautiful picture OF Eve haa
inst been completed and was then on exhlOtlon
trashy,
men, in color in drawing and without real merit OF any
Kind yet found plenty Of admirers not only among lta
aIs but among foreigners. Marco, In his department. mas
more merit and two younger artists are showing
some urornise but the best painters and eculptos at
present in Florence, are Americans
There are a number of countrymen here. some OF
whom are spending the winter, and others making lying
Wits Several Of them are expendng their surplus money
in the purchase Of works Of art Some with discrlmna
ton and TASTE as well lberaty and patriotism are CIV
ing commissions to American ertists. But by Tar the
creator number Influenced by fashionable admiration
for The old masters desire 10 possess even IN dnln
shed copes sometimes little than carica'ures some
:, lie Of he pss-an ambition to soy that their pictures
as well as their furniture aud dress of foreign mann
fecure or doubling their taste are guided by mat
Of their courier who is always ready to recommend the
painter dealer from whom he me largest CON
mission are buying copies doubtful originals OF the
multitude Of unheard of artists Of the past. 30 madon
mas and and saints and altar pi and embodied
supersttion of ell kinds, are covering the walls OF our
houses which ought be adorned with works of our own
time-breaing the spirit and genius OF the present or
looking onward to the future know that At would be
hard TO convince such persons that better pictures can be
bought az home than in Itaythat landscape OF Dd
rand or fropsey OF Kenett worth all the copies
Of Salvador Rosa of Claude that they can collier in
Florence or in Rome-thet one good u traton OF Ameri
can history from the pencil Of White Leutze IL more to
he priced than dozen copies OF saints from Guido or
madopnas from Raphael and we shall still have to suffer
this inundaton Of bad copies and our own Art VIII si
continue langush for want of the support that II de-
serves But TO be hoped that better time IS com
ing and that the influence Of the past It's suersons its
systCms OF government anu
which is their offspring, will TO control our new
world We ougb, TO be ashamed of vassaase to the
sse and superstons Of the Old World and declare our
independence hereom We have already done from her
politics.
There s little in the way Of which you do not get
by the newspapers All eyes turned TO Austria, as
upon her position in the coming contest depends the peace
Of Italy The prevailing impression is that che will
Join the Western Powers the only course to insure not
only her Italian possessions but her very existence We
shall soon see. E.w.S.