The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-21


shores the background shooting
ap the tall and richly lodges Of ths chsa~
relieved picturesqaely against the sky The discovery
made jus, sitter they reached inaAa village, TIE
ChiOkasaw blats, where every emblem Of savage
life.
fhis painting comprehensive work Of art ever
executed by American II Is broader in tho Geld Gov
ers Is complete and universal in its embicms li
both civilized and IL and graphic Ia
every detail There nothing belonging to the subject thar
Is not embraced any thing which not spufo
pirate. This have been the rule that the painter Oh
served in work could aecasn,
Therefore, ud tha Indications Of saecel study the
learned and patient investigation There might be
difference among ef equal claims 20 in regard /,
the arrangement Of Of the the tone Of the pic
tare and the distribution 81 light and shade but these ar.
details which, in themselves do not decide the intrinsic value
Of great picture. impair s moral effect In these a.
tails consists individuality Of great painter. When M
lowed BY iitators they make what called schools d
ar-like the Nenetians, who painted everything sor.
geously and the Fiorennes who seemed 20 Axs paint,
ed without feeling enthusiasm while tho Roman
school Is distinguished for the fancs and dignity Of IA.
FORMS and the high moral sentiment that breathei
through its pictures The highest test that be an
piled the style Of great historical painting its gen
eral effect upon refined mnd II up In art 10
the standard that reached in poetry by the greatest m
thors IL not only inspire corresponding feeling that
sight Of the itself would have begoen. but ought
20 further aud in this picture Powell has great NJ,
painter should represented thing that knowu
that essential 10 be understood in order To make the
taor familiar with the whole SUBJECT after careful cbser
yation as the painter himself We venture 10 as.,
be demonstrated for learned refined mn
who has swept that whole field Of investigation Powell had
tread will find the result Of all his studies that single
piece of We pretend to that other Of ~
cent pictures painted the have accomplished
ANY such thing II not difficult matter for Trambu
do all that required, by giving exact portraits IL
proper OF the sgners Of the Declaration Of
pendence lie familiar with those There was H.
,,f.ftf
regard him great artist feel everlasting graf
itude him faithful deineaor Of the FORMS the COS
tunes the minds the feeings and the acts Of the fathers
| the repablic
'Mr. Powell has difficulty whore he vol
UNFAIRLY put himself in front Of the hardest obstacle his
painter has encountera anatomical
deneation of the forms of whole groups Of men, women
children horses, mules, and game figures repre-
sented, from almost complete nudity up through all the
grades Of every species OF costume characteristic of his a.
the seaddiy clad cavalier at the head Of arm
The figure in the foreground BY the regarded
by learned artists and connosseurs in Europe The
striking faithful and fortunate anatomical dcneaon
witnessed in times whether in PARTING statuary The
figure statue, and stands from the distinct
though il made of marble. Mr. Powell has been ac
cused of painting in and coiors too gorgeous
after ALL this does not appear when each figure
by itself De soto is clothed in the Of that period
he araby when in the field graceful purple par
desas is thrown upon his armor, to protect him from the
burning heat Of midday and the young cavalier who
follows De Soto, the only who gorgeous dress
had to be clothed in that style represent class and
going through the picture every character has costume
that is perfectly in keeping with his classno two, in the
whole picture of sixty figures that do not represent with
fidelity type of one class Of De Sotos followers,
class Of sayages he encountered"
The subject itself is peculiarly national any other
that could have been selected by the congressional
mttee and embraces period in the history of
try ngulary attractive the reader Within this period
romance chivalry energy, enterprise perseverance pre-
dominates and the results that have flowed from the
commemoraed by the picture important TO the
Union each separate State to its pcrpetui,y This
marks the triumph of civilization barbarsu
Who look upon the progress Of the South and West
and tho changes from the time Of De Soo to the
present without being convinced Of the magnifcence Of
the RESULT
The distinguished artist has completed his great work
faithfully and with signal ability and have doubt
viii receive a remuneration which he well deserves
With the completion Of this task alone he might with pro
priety exsaim--a E1egi monumenfum /"