New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-10
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
Fifth and Last Notice.


No. l49. THE BRIDE-J. b. FLAGG, N. A
small and carefully painted portrait of particular
quality beyond a certain feeling of refinement with
easel for the pulpit, and is now the pastor of Grace
Church of Brooklyn Nights, the successor of DIR.
yinton, whose portrait hangs just above this.
No. ~. LADY AT HER TOILET. ii. LAZARUS, A.
An exceedingly graceful and beautiful little picture
The lady is arranging rose in her hair before mir
ror, and the whole action and coorng of the figure
are commercially good and agreeable.
No 1874. Col. McKENSY-C. L. ELLIOTT, N. A.
This is Just the kind of subject in which Mr. Eotts
brilliant brush is exhibited to the best advantage.
hearty old gentleman with ford complexion and
abundance of silvery hair gives abundant scope
for the resources Of the artists palette, which
is always overcharged with vermion and whitehead
There is no exaggeration in this striking head and the
drawing is as accurate as photograph. Mr. Elliott
paints old men as we used TO imagine Claude painted
sunsets and Vandervelde water scenery before John
Ruskn, with his analytical criticisms. convinced we
knew nothing about the matter.
No 1856 PERDITA-J. g.. TAGGART.-What a Per-
dia We imagined at the first glance that it was the
Witch of Endor; then Queen Elizabeth Little did we
dream it was Perdita. Yet the artist has quoted
Shakespeare to prove it.
No. l67 The REV. Dr. Cox-F. b. CARPENTER,
A-Another head of Doctor Cox good, but not very.
Mr.. Carpenter appears all the time to be on the very
verge Of painting remarkably good portrait, but he
stops short of the point which he promises to reach.
Perhaps he will do better.
No. log. La MARGUERITE-WM.M NJ. HuSr.-Another
specimen of Mr. Hunts strange manner Marguerite
stands back to the spectator among the alien corn
but with her face turned that the profile reveals
the melancholy sentiment of her mind. No one will
deny the latent power which these paintings of Mr.
Hunt reveal; but, what that power is capable Of
producing it is not easy to prophesy from these
malkable specimens. The good that is in these pic
tunes is very good and normal, while the bad may be
only accident, or perverse vciousness. We shall
see more of Mr.. Hunt by and by, and then We shall
know better what he is driving at.
No. 10. WILD HORSES CHASED by ISDIASs-Jo-
HASSEs A. OERTrL 1t quite probable that there
some errors Of drawing in this picture but is unde
niable that there is fine hurry-scurry about it, and
that you bring away from it an impression of having
seen an Indian throw asso into herd of wild horses,
which were scamperng away for dear life with terri
Bile fear of being caught and subjected to the viii Of
their master.
No. IFS. LASpscAPE-GEo. ISyEss.-A heavy dark
green view of nature which the artist, judging from
the prominence Of his name on the frame, thinks no
small beer of.
No. l76. CHILD on THE SEA SHoRE-MRs. DAs-
SELL, H-Ths is not what the catalogue represents,
but an endnt terrible, sitting on rocky precipce,
with its wilted legs for cushion.
No. 49, GALMEo-"YEr SHE MoyEs."-THEo.
KArrAAS.-This is the kind OF picture which people
want who are eternaly crying out for historical COM
positions. But a few more ssch would, we imagine,
Xrety eGectually cure amateurs of their inordnste
Iongnge Nine spectator out Of ten Will take the