The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-27
EngIish Opinion Of American Art-Church's
Nlagara.'

From he lonc on Times, August I'll
We DO not the authority for the sneo1ote OF the
young American traveller who, boasting OF his flthcrs
picture gallery and being asked OF what masters ON
s.loed spec meas an, my pS,o.
Tho Italian picture dealers can tes ny 70 the Tact thai
American tourists arc ncng their best and srcenest 'ui
TONERS There inye, meni 81 70 which experience "a
moro esseuia 20 be bought than pictures and nj the
prs.ou stage " aesthetics in America there Sun great
deal o. expe ienoe 70 be purchased ~ Oay
6H, John Bull ba 10 orov co loud over Jonsthm
On this scoc. II is only OF late years that our own
pacture buyers have begun 70 learn that modern
WORKS Of art q safer Investment than old oacs,
however masniGcenLy christsned; and we cannot
bsneve thai Yankee shrewdnca will DO far boaind
ru.h 10 this respccs when once school Of reruioe Anne.
ycan art has como into existence hndipe snemes IN me
NE and nature Of The New World rno Un.ed saics long
they beginning 70 lend well u borrow. washing
~ irving, Cooper and Bryant ed The way. Mrs Bcehsr
800 nsssnoTn bsnssyw Lowell and score o. , mo,
= many rcace rs In the Old werld 10 In The Nev.
A ~ eh literature We cannot bat hope viii soou
be long confined 70 the fields OF Industrial mechanical
aCsivty. With such country and such race We cannot
psirpg Also In sculpture high houors have already been
won BY Americans rorers an Green wood rank among
Ne nrst sculpors whom orepce hes cducased and our
Gibeon has declared be has nothing N leash Miss
ssaiue Of Beatrice ocno formed one o. he mos,
exhibition Of the Royal Academy Bat In painting
Alrsou and Sewn-tho United States have mot bsssad
Of more than Local celebrity. IL n that
n " have given Newton and Jese, but they rank a.
English and not American painters
Under these circumstances We note with peculiar plea
suve the arrival In this country Of remarkable poturs,
bv an American landscape painter, OF an American SUB
c a once the ersndest and tne most defiant OF all ord
nary pictorial power among the many soencs which The
The psp,er 4 Mr.. Frederic Edward Church, and the
suhe Ia Niagara Few scenes have been m,re often at
Lsmpsd by the pencil and has hitherto more com
pesey lsusbei II 70 rcorn Bot NJ Church has painted
Ne ssupF pdous cataract with quiet courage and patient
elaboration which leave u.s. for the nrst time, sasned
thai even this awful reality not beyond me range OF
human Initiation 49, - -
Mr. Churchs picture Ia az ooloug Of sove seven or
eight feet by three aud ba our eye have not deceived
~. The vie In taken from the Canadian nde, mus
acove Table Rock and includes the whole sweep OF ms
Horseshoe FALL 10 the OF Goat Island mere 10
foreground shore The spectator looks rgni soue we
Canadian rapids their swrs converge Tor the uemeu
dcus leap shattered tree ronk 10 caught IN tne oppos
Ing codes which churn and chafe into foe over the az
ere brown rock the sun tight striking their edges mo
transparent green where they fling thems Ives ovef tns
kps o. The lodges In their hurrying course toe punge
the ghty river About centre u t1e pctare me
bend on the barrier ~ aoes " watch the do-nwara
eep on tue river, not IN sheet, but 10 lana
mersbe cascades, from every projecting point, shi'
cred INTO fne iringes OF foam asd losing ihemrevei
Va the sprry TO which The mass Of wser
churned By Us fall Across the air Of this sursy
cloud he r.inbo hnp It's prismstic arch Bey nd VIC
zee the dsiaut lnes NJ foam thai the rapids, AMI
fvrhor stu the terrace, Of the Cdlppspay shore ni,bei
vh toc rinb hues o. American Forest the TIN
stewards evening fow strssk, OF purple cloud break