New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-16
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subject renders it repnIsNs 70 all bsho'dsr~.
Our own animal painSas have NOS formed them
selves on the Landseer school, nut have painted animals
in the rough without any senSa,eutal surroundings
Mr.. w. H. Beard who has lately toms TO New-York
from Buffalo is an animal painter Of AN entirely orsns
school. He delights 10 represent the comic sidc u
animal life without any moral tag TO hs compoadoos
He 10 not La FontaDe; he does not make use OF sn-
mails TO convey moral lesson, but exhibits nem IN
comical position, and extracts much br NO nnmor
from them as they can be made to yield. Wi'ness M
Bears on Bender" TO which we have befoU msos
alusons. His pictures viii prove very sccRssoss
variety in our usually monotonous exhiIitioos-
The exhibition Of the National ASsdsmy, which
opens next week, will lack the customary portraits by
Elliott which the public have nsturaNy looked for
during nearly twenty years as they have looked for
apple blossoms and ilacs in the Spring ue refuses
this year TO send any portrait owing doubt sess to the
difficulty Of hast year. which originssed IL the bed
hanging of his portrait of Kneeland the Sculptor.
which he cut out of its naue he first slime be disoov-
cred where it had been hang. The Academy gains
this year one of its old exhibitors from who're 1t his
had scarcely picture for the last ten years MT Pags
sends 10 the Exhibition Lis Infant Bacchus and nH
Roman Campagna group Of italian psasan 70; tuf 10
sends Of his late portraits Th. full sengtb Por'
trait of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecber WIFI N be COM
menced Last Fall has not been finished IN sseqRsnos
Of Mr.. Besehers many occurring engagement, not per.
hitting him 70 give the necessary stsngs, OF rsseef
standings. hrs
Mr.. Thorn continues to send home from Pariss,
where he is painting under the instruction OF I'd
ward Frere, little genre pictures Of hunbis
life, which have too much the appearance
Of being dashed of in hurry in fuif@ept Of sous'
pressing engagement Humble life in Europe Is a.
ways sad, and these little pictures which cur Young
countryman makes of French peasants Ike thos Of hs
master full Of touching passages Of poverty and
suffering. 20 1E
Mr. George =. Brown IA the most vigorous end
industrious worker among al. our artists. He com
menced his large painting Of the City and Bay ID New
York at Sunrise, last Spring, and since tlen, besds
finishing this work he has reproduced it m copper, In
etching which is 10 be Published painted three
large viows Of Newport Hsrbor, beside SMALLER
pictures of the same subject biz " Crown Of Now.
England" and ID already far advanced IN his Winter
moonlight view Of Nisgsrs. This picture, for which
be spent three weeks at the Falls in February. u
making studies il on canvass Of he same dinens,c1s
a. the Crown of New England" The view Is tskes
from Table Rock the full has just risen above tho
" hill Of waters over which it throws food Ct silver
light, the effect Of which IL greatly enhanced b. tho
pendant iceles and drifts Of snow.
There is no good reason why pictures by Foreign
artists any more than books other articles Of luxury
and re fnement should be admitted by tariff free q
duty The zen per cent sd valcrem duty imposed ~
the new tariff on paintings by foreign artists imported
for the purpose of sale is complained of IN certain
quarters being likely to prohb, the importation o.
the better class of the works Of European painters
may have that effect to certain extent bat pictures
are kind Of merchandise thai have no recognizes
marketable value, and importers of them will find ~
difficulty in putting such valuation Cd them as wiz
reduce the ad valoren duty to mere bagsteile. No
Custom House appraiser could object 10 the admissions
Of one Of Mei-soniers e pictures, for example, NJ
valuation Of fifty dolars while its possible value might
be i've thousand or more We do not spprebend thse
there viii be any diminution Of imported paintings,
either by old modern masters la consequence Of tha
new tariff gong into operation.
Rogers, the sculptor" rs he is called, though hS
has not yet seulptured anything, his exploits in an
having ar yet been all confined plaster, has recently
made two or three very striking groups one Of which
lie the Trial Scene 10 the Merchant Of Venice, and
another IL called The Vigilance Committee" y
an illustration of the present hard times in Old Viz
ginny snd represents unhappy wretch with rope
round lis neck about pay the penalty of hxving hal
in his pocket scrap OF paper which contained evidence
OF his loving liberty wisely, but too we'll Mr..
Rogers il an artist OF unmistakable genius.