Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-26

art of painting nor pretending to that rapt,
poetic appreciation Of its beauties which some
possess and still more effect, yet I can truly
sav TINT one of the pleasantest afternoons ever
snent were passed in the Dusseldorf Gallery
The Dusseldorf Gallery and the Dusseldorf
.sschool" of painting is, as understand, sort
of institution by itself 1t takes its name from
a town in one Of the Rhenish provinces of Prus-
STA, the Duchy of Berg believe, and the style
of painting in contradistinction TO that called the
"nltra modern" has been called "nltra-medeVl-
al" The school was built up by body OF Ger
man painters, who professed to be sickened out
with the redundencies and superhuities which
had crept into the modern style, and the object
was to be the restoration of the old school style
with such addenda seemed warranted by the
elements of the art The followers OF the school
profess to be devoted to fidelity to nature, in
form, color and expression: minuteness In de-
TAIL delicacy of finish and perfectness IN render
| ing the language Of every subject. On enter
! ing the gallery, one OF the first pictures that
will impress you is that of "Othello relating his
adventures to DeSdemona." This painting Is
pronounced one Of the masterpieces OF the age.
| 1t is classed by artists, who daily visit this
gallery, as ono of the great works OF the last
half century. The catalogue tells us that 1t was
painted for the King OF Prussia, but had never
been delivered, owinging to the unsettled state
Of affairs at Berlin when it was completed The
more one looks at the picture the more does Its
greatness StntlQ out 10 view. WIN bue aTllSt
the figure of the canvass is 0thello, but to me,
Judging the picture as thing of nature simply,
the great attraction was the figure of Desdemo-
ma; and to borrow the tribute which another
paid to it, can say that "such beauty, such
wondrous depth of expression, such exquisite
harmony Of drapery and attitude" never met
with before Among the other of the few pic
lures upon which we had time to dwell, were
those of liking Lear aud Cordelia," cardinal
Wolsey's reconciliation with Queen Catharine, "
"Tasso reading his Jerusalem Delivered before
the Duke of Ferrara," "The Alteration of the
Mngii," "The Martydom of John Huss."
You see am writing you this morning from
the National Hotel in Courtlandt street, sur
rounded by the heaviest business centre of New
York. was induced to change my OLD place
of stopping, by a friend mentioning to me, inst
before left Philadelphia. that Col. Webb, for.
merly of the Union, in Arch street, in the latter
CITY, and more lately of the Estates" at Atlantic
city, had come into possession of it. Col. Webb
is one Of the most widely known ahd widely
celebrated hotel men in the country. have
seen men here who always stopped ut the other
New York hotels, coming straight here as soon
as they learned that Col Webb had been init
ated. As for myself can say that Col. Wcbb's
equal as hotel manager, never yet saw.
see that his old friends from Wheeling and the
country round about, are daily arriving. Let
those who have not started east this season yet
bear in mind that the Colonel is here. @.