New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-14

6 Lucretia Mott, the leader Of the delegate
women from America, sat found her out to
have infdel notions and resolved at once mar
row-min1ed or not, not TO give her the promi-
nent place first intended will reserve that
for beautiful believer in the Divinity of Christ
It was narrow minded, Master Hayden.
Apropss Of the Forest King Eandseer once had
. dead lion sent to him for the purpose of dis
section When it was brought to the door, his
handmaiden came up TO the studio, and asked
him with great simplicity, sIfyou please sir did
yon order lion'o / dare say Landseer thought no
more Of going to the Geological Gardens and
selllng them TO send home a brace of Elephants
than yon OF would Of ordering the same num-
Der Of chickens.
Strong as Hayden was in his disiikes, he was
stronger in his affections He venerated Mel
son, and with true John Ball prejudice hated
the French. He says: +" have much higher
idea OF Nelson's reach of mind than most men
tre inclined to have. bis correspondence in
1 glerks Life is mastery. His perfect self sacs
| rince, his pure unadulterated patriotism, hi
ntense estimate cf the character Of the French,
md his never being imposed on by their beg
| carly and hloedy philosophy, but invariably
-eeing through their shutting pretenees, and
| never believing that their word was worth more
han their morals; his inspired conviction that
| England, In peace or in war, was and would
tlways be the object Of their inveterate hatred,
+howed vigor and perspicuity proof against
| III imposition Ard the French IN their dread
| hatred of him. taeitly admitted the truth Of bis
Instincts" This is rather more than could
have been expected in the way Of prejudice from
an artist, even though that artist was an Eng
| lishman. Il is worthy of British merchant,
md reminds me Of the picture in Punch, which
| represents particularly port-armed specimen
of that class saying 8. Railroads, | hate rail-
roads, sir. and shall be glad when they are all
lone away with and we have the stage coaches
gam Hayden. By the way, abominated
raliroads. ne thought them SO unpieturesque,
| IN which most artists would agree with him
| Although Americans bought one Of bis paint
ings, and hung it up in Philadelphia, he did
not seem to like us much, he gives rather
sp1tefui account OF young American: GA
young American sat with me in the coupee and
was heartily amused All the characteristics
Of his countrymen came out IN perfection. He
| careessly tumbled about bills to a considerable
amount-boasted of the bottle of Plattshurgh,
which | had forgotten till was obliged to pull
him down little, tenderly, about the Chesa-
peake and the Capital His face altered in
stant1y.
IS At lunch he went and found out who was,
| and his altered tone amused me. He drove up
| to the same hotel, and announced my coming
| (Which was cursed hberty)." John Bull all
Il over.
In one part of his journal he writes: ssThere
are three things in the world hope to see before
| dle-the Americans thrashed at sea, my own
debts paid and historical painting encouraged
BY Government" Poor fellow he did not live to
see either. sea
Possibly the very reason why Hayden was
not particularly partial to Americans is, because
they rendered him q service they bought one
| Of his pictures. He walls over it as it were
lost child: @It was now leaving my native coun-
try forever, where / hoped to have seen it
placed triumphantly in some public building 81
4 r. L y. E.
the creation of his own brain which he has
worked at for months and months, seeing it
grow into life and beauty.
One misfortune attending painting is, that
it engenders funkeyism. Artists need rich pat
rons to purchase their pictures. and they con :
seauently approve of institutions which tend to
concentrate large sums of money in the hands
! of single individuals l have heard American
artists sigh for peerage, and the law of entail
there are not sufficient number of rich men 10
purchase their pictures in America, and the art
languishes.
, Haydon's funkyism stands out all through
. his journal, and interferes with the feeling OF
respect we are otherwise inclined to have for his
independent character. One constantly meets
with such passages as this: sit was melan-
choly thus to look at work for the last time,
which had excited SO great a sensation in Eng
land and Scotland, the progress of which had
been watched by all the nobility, foreign min
! listers and people of fashion, ETC., etc.
! Hayden must have had the organ of venera
!, : ton largely developed. He was always pray
!, ing. He never began picture or a part of
r picture, without asking the assistance of God
+ .'God grant may succeed in SOLOMON" ss
!, | prayed God to give me strength that nigh
;, get through Christ MAY merciful Creator
, assist me in my efforts paint the ass,e etc
n Now, had Hayden been successful man, piou
y :, people would have pointed to him as an llustra
/ nt fho Off Of - a.
say nothing about it In spite of Haydon's re-
ligious feeling, he did not seem to altogether
relish going to church; he stays at home paint
/ ing all Sunday, and says it fills HIM with noblel
thoughts than Tearing sermon His children
seem to to share his opinions, and his son Frank
\ who is regular chip of the old block. says he
i hates to pay with parcel of fools who come te
: be looked at.
Hayden's ahomination of portrait painting
r was perfectly amusing, the positively savage
a manner in which he always speaks of it has
d something quite comic. {. Finished one cursed
d portrait he writes, have only one more II
d touch and then shall be free / have an ex
>, qusite qualification in painting portraits
wretchedly. / love to see the sitters look as /
If they thought, scan this he Haydon's the grea
i Haydons, paintingi | chuckle am a rasea
. to take their money, and chuckle more.'' car
n hardly conceive anything more unsatisfactory
5 than laboring through uninteresting por
n tralt, ana tnen naVlng the sitter and all tht
sitter's friends pick it to pieces, one saying th
= mouth is too large, another the nose is to-
i small, third the face is too short, till the un
. happy artist sickens with disappointment ane
Il modification And to man, too, of Haydoni
II vanity, the slightest remark would mortif,
q him. In his last work he was guilty of
. piece of egotism which stamps the character O
!, the man. In his painting of Curtus leapinl
/. into the gulf, he painted his own portrait fo
/. Curtius This piece of vanity has been con
d demned by many. But it was not bad idea
Art was his Rome and he sacrificed himself for it
n As laid down the volume thought to my
n self what strange, novel record Of mans lit
one generally gets the autobiographies of dream
i ers to read, as they are the men who most Low
~ to look inward and record on paper the work
q ings Of their ewn minds. Men of action scarcel,
n ever stop to record what they do and think 70
70 their own private qualification, therefore, thi
i autobiography of Hayden is novel, and hop
Il every one who wishes really to be charmed
: amused and instructed, will take up and ram
e Bile through Haydon's autobiography as hav
= done.
~ ~ They are beginning to sing ugly songs off il
= Australia, that CRATE harshly on the ears of tn
# Queens loyal subjects. Here is a specimen:
# The British Oaks rare old tree,
Rut turnu zion. Il