New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-10
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
YALE COLLEGE.
ADDRESS COMMEMORATIVE OF BARTHOLOMEW.

ADDRESS COMMEMORATIVE OF BARTHOLOMEW.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune
NEwHAyES, Thursday, July 8, 1853.
Az address CONNIE moreve Of the sculptor Bsrtholo-
new was delivered last evening in the chapel of lae
College, By the Hon. ii. G. Deming Of Hartford. 1t
formed ne Of series Of lectures being given here
in connection with very superior Art Exhibition
recently opened upon the college grounds, of which
purpose soon to give the readers of The TRIBUNE
brief account contains many works Of rare merit.
The recent death Of Rome of Bartholomew, who was
Just beginning TO enjoy that appreciation which he
deserved one of tue first OF American artists, has
excite 80 deep interest among ell who value excel
lerce 10 art that abstract Of Mr.. Dening eloquent
acdrsss will, perhaps worthiy occupy plsce 10 your
columns.
Edward Bartholom W s. born at Colchester, Conn,
July, 1872 The first glimpse of him v0uchaafsd u,
discloses that in his youngest boyhoOG there were
thoughts and emotions in him painting 10 get free-
yeaIbipg were, to build in lofty rhyme, or dash
themselves On canvas animate the nsensete msrbe.
We told that imagination was the despot OF his
earlier years; which means that before he ha1 reason
to guide them voice TO utter them, there were un
dNulged phartssne hidden treasures, w0rdless poe
Try Invisible painting, silent music dreams OF when
the pains and pleasures fer the dreamer ony YER
rors which the heart alone knoweth, Joys VIII hhou
the stranger nteTG,edaleth not that arose and sung
mede.ive childhood. At the age OF hiteen ne was
removed 10 Hartford where be eerved an apprentice
thip with bOOb-bnder, and Tor nve years as
deitist He abandoned both pursuits in disgust
as scon as his sJul began ID look l0nglngy toward
its true mission. tendency to uss the chsk
skill!uy on tue blackboard was discovered iu Bar
thOlCmeW by one Of his first tcacher'. Ills iather
was a plain utromsrtic man with as exalted an
apprecdton Of the real as he had contempt Tor the
idt al sra whose defuton Of agenius vas IKE thai OF
the endord in the play one that can 90 anything
"n life except anything that is useful. lie uniform
ly said thst Edward clever, industrious, Welt
behaved boy until the reading OF the life OF Benvenuto
Cellri a, Hartford "put the devil into him. From
this unfortunate reading he becama moody, mpulsve
pleased with nothing but gazirg on old pictures
and trying to copy them, dashng down 10 his wrath
ana br, aking the dentistry work upon which he was
employ ed, snd dsshiug also the fond hopes OF his
fatt eI that lie would lead plOddnE, regular lie III
filing and pulling teeth.
At Hartford be obtained the appointment of Curator
of ths AtheI1rm Gallery, in winch he enjoyed tue
opportunity Of stucyug copies OF the gures upon the
Erusoan Nsses found al Rereulaneun, as also OF
Raphael's famous Cartoons. These works had en- i'm
portart influence in cultvGng his taste. Ills first esssy
in art painter, but he discovered that ne
was afflicted with color blindness, and was therefore
eecusiy proc0c ei irom pursuing this line OF soor
His next attempt was 10 execute IN marble medalon
likeness of Mrs. SgoWney, upon winch friend found
him working IN teoiet viva poor tools ana ihuluereht
material. At about tll5 tine he Mas attacked oy the
smallpox and being uOsSlfUlly treated, suffered most
severely from the dsehse. His noble couutenancs
was fee!fuly dsfgured, his brilliant eye was dimmed
ard no was left wreck OF his foImer sell, with the
seeds Of eeath implanted his constitution. Misor
tuJe brought TO him friends by whose generous AID ne
was enabled to Ieslize the most ardent wish OF his
heat visit to Rome, the grave of empire aud the
throne Of at" He endured indescIibabe suiferngs
in his voyage the sea in small Italian vessel,
but surmouptipg Gll made his way with sll rapliity
to the Eternal City, ard within three days of ms
arrive! was seated in the Piazza di Migroneh
molding his group of blnd Homer led by
his daughters lie made tours through Greece,
Egyp. AID Palestine, everywhere enrohiog his port
folo with sketches Of the wonderful creations of &c
nius which we're spread so profusely around bin. In
one Of his letters he gives 40 account OF his ist con-
ception of one OF bis chef works. As left tho
plans Of Jericho, he says, "snd ascended into tae
mour tains looked back upon the ID 9sd Sea, and
was told that from the same summit Abraham
licked toward Scdom and saw the smoke srise as
the sIuoke of furnace from the guilty cities of the
"piap. The story Of Lots wife aud the pillar OF salt
"csue 10 ray mind said to my self Ilkata a splcn-
'did fgRfe fer a statue = | am DOW doing II as
"large rs the Venus OF Milo. have chosen the
"mom when sbe turns 70 lock back upon the burn.
~'irg city. The expression at beholdiDS the awful
"sctne Is smazement and horror, fixed aud marble
ike. 90 often TO the Sstlne spel tose the Lsst
"Jrdgmert of Alchsel Angelo aud endesvor to keep
4" my mid filed with those stapeIdous prophets and
slby.s the grandeur Of which my statue should par
take. l shall make il In Msssa marble, which
has coarse, gterpg grsDulaton, and shsll nnish
4the surface as to bnpg out the quslty and mske
sit closely resemble the crystal pillar into which the
"bscksliding womsn was turned
During his entire residence st Rome, he wss the
victim Of the deepest dependency. Gloomy recolec
tions OF the past crowded upon him, and ths future
heo cut 10 him no pleasing hopes. lie lolesa" tnat
an early death Was his certain destiny The present
afforded him 20 consolation, bat disease and toll
pressed heavily upon lin. The unhsppy and de-
sporong soul chiseed in all the marble he touched
We see 1, pethed the attitudes of patient suffer.
ing, in TIE lassi'ude ard weariness Of dropping
limbs, IN the crushed head. the sbaajoument TO
griei OF suo0reo and repentant yet despsring Eve;
we zee i 10 ex1ed Belissrius, GssSed from supreme
command ara imperial splendor, TO beg his bread at
the gstes of foreign city; il discarded Hagsr
benghed n The desert With htr wser spen and crying
to G,d from the Dc p,bs OF maternal snsuish et me
"Lo. zee the 6esth of the child ; in bind old Homer
gifted with wealth Of soul that cut weighs the tire
uiies of Kings, ye! ed from door to door by his trem
bling daugber to dicker of bis immortal fancies for
copper obolus: IN the wrecheo wife of Lot staring
borIor at the flaming cHes she loved too we'll in the
urutterabe sgony Of Sapohos face IS ste leaps from
the leuca rock INTO the coveted embrace OF death
Bartholomew pursued att purely for its sake
lie was de,ermitsd, a. he ssd, whstever nigh.
DO hs succsss. 10 have tie satisfaction OF
Knowing tia. hi, intentions were pure. and that he