Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-05-28


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NEW Yosx, May 20, 1859.
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-HAhLES.
We have done it; yes We have done
the Thirty fourth Annual Exhibition of the
National Academy Of Design. and We think
that We may hazard the opinion that most
Of the artists who have secured prominent
places for the display Of their pictures. are
more indebted to the oyster and champagne
suppers with which they have RECALLED the
+" hanging committee" than to the merits Of
their own productions
The Exhibition is uncsmmonly large this
year the six galleries are well filled and
contain over eight hundred pictures.
In the third gallery there are . great
many sketches and studies" which are
perfect gems. and though they are packed
away in modest little hooks and corners,
their merits are by no means obscursd.
In the fifth gallery the frat picture that
attracted eur attention Was No. 64e-"The
Last slumbsr Of Beatrice Cenci." by Louis
Lang. The picture is taken from the follow
ing passage from the narrative Of Beatrice
Cenci. by Guerraxzi
"She lie sleeping as on the night in which
she was swsken'd by the groans of dying
man, and the dying man was her father.
murdered ct the foot Of her bed. Let us
not awake her. only approach quietly. to
look once more upon her divine besuty."
The figure Of Beatrice on the couch 10
we'll drs wn, and the shading excellent; We
examined this picture for some time. but
must see It more than once to speak fully Of
its merits.
The next which we would mention 10 in
the sixth gallery-No. 762-"A Reminis-
cence of the Catskill Glove" by A. B. Da-
rand, President of the National Academy !;
this is not equal to some of Mr.. Durand's
landscapes, nevertheless the foliage is good
and the general effect Of the picture salts
factory.
No. 100, "Woodcock Shooting" by A. F.
TAFT. hangs near the above. The scene rep
resents lew, marshy piece Of ground
two setter dogs in the foreground havej just
flushed brace of wsodcocks-the sports
man has just shot one, and is in the act Of
firing at the remaining bird-the dogs are
in attitude of course; on the whole this
picture is very natural, and the dogs are
admirably executed.
No. 37s, The Day Dream" by G. A.
Baker, represents . charming little maiden
leaning on an open easement, looking At
nothing. but thinking Of somebody NO
doubt; it is very pretty little picture,
and remarkably well done.
No. 643, Breakers Ahead /" by w. PW
Dana-scene, ledge Of rocks over which
the spray is dashing and towards which .
ship is being driven by violent gale; the
rocks. the spray, the ship and the storm
clouds are all we'll done, and the general
effect Of the picture is good.
| No. 226, "The Fruit Market" by Van
Schendall, i. finely finished picture; the
mist of the street, the lights on the stalls.
and the faces and figures of the market
women are admirably executed.
No. 3s3, by F. P. Rossiter, is the portrait
of very pretty young lady who officiated
as the Twelfth Night Queen at the last an
niversary of the Century Club.
No 2O3, The Bane and the Antidote,"
by VIM. H. Hoyt; the "bane consists Of
a crab, an ear ofgreen corn, several cucum-
bers, and sundry other choleric condiments,
aud the Antidote" bottle Of cholera
medicine; the articles are all we'll painted,
and look natural and life-like.
There are many other excellent pictures
in the exhibition. but l haven't time or
space at present to mention them there
are also some finely finished portraits by
II. Peters Gray, and the poet-artist I. Bu-
chanan Read
Au Revoir, EBENEzER SPRour.
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