Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-28
Artistic sorrows and Painters Complaint

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Ar,ist,c Sorrows and Painters Complaints.
The Boston Epsning Transcript has the
following %satirical %effu.ion:
Artists are Dotoriously afflicted with the
complaint called 'impecuniosity, and often
find themselves driven into the closest pos
sible Straits for means to meet their liabili-
ties. Who that is at all familiar with art
matters has not heard Of the knight of the
brush who backed his waistcoat with one Of
his landscapes, and whenever his coat was
taken oil, it revealed a WATERFALL Domen-
e ichipc. the old master, was beat down to
81 hslf price for his last performance, and paid
in copper coin the labor of carry ing It home
threw him into a fever which ended bis
days.
i,ichsrd Wilson, one of England's bright
est p%eniuses, on carrying a picture to a
dealer for sale, was shown into a room
where all his pictures for the last three
wears were stored, not one having found G
purchaser. 0nce he received a commission,
and burst into tears because he had no
money 10 buy a canvas with. Artists of
our owl day are in no better condition. How
many, gifted with talent of a high order,
are piniDg in obscure attics, with rarely a
customer. who venture forth only between
AuNllkuA hIu lain eNN
back streets, lest their shabby costume
should attract attention or derision from the
more Cpulent promenaders, or most likely,
to an unpleasant dm!
-. We once called upon an artist, but the
door was closed, and all over it was written
with pencil such remarks as, "Why don't
Won come and pay up ?' 1--WE called till
Pm tirtd and shan't come again ?" "If you
don't lay my bill, I'll sue you" &c.
G7tss Neglect-Our own Inmau has not
even O hesdstone TO his grave. The inimit-
able Doughty, whose graceful outlines and
compos ton, combined with most exquisitely
sweet coloring, have inspired many a soul
with poetic enthusiasm for art, breathed his
lest ard "psssed on in wretched poverty.
We once heard an artist remark, when
askeC now be aourished in business, "Why,
il | cou'd fatten on compliments, l should
have long since grown bigger than
PANEL Lambert; but as | am compelled to
depend on patronage, you see I'm only a
living skeleton.
Artists are usually highly sensitive, and
feel Beenly when their merits are neglected,
and sometimes perpetrate keen satires on
those who should be their patrons, and the
state OF society which dooms them to in
digepce and pe6ury by neglecting to fur
nish the material aid0 necessary for their
progress.
a Satiricol Pictre.-These observations
were suggested by a discovery we recently
made ia a back room, of several pictures
which evidently had once belonged TO some
v~irtuoso, whose taste in such matters was
out of the ordinary channel. One, in par
ticular, attracted attention, which, upon
taking it into a better light, and removing
several layers of dust, was found to be one
OF those %satiIical works of rare ingenuity of
conception, and marvellously skilful execu-
ton, seldom met with. 1t had no visible
signature, but the manipulation was sufi-
GENTLY decided and clear to mark it as the
work of Woodside, Of Philadelphia, whose
siA-lJe subjects are truly remarkable. Al
the bottom was a table, on which was lying
a portfolio, with papers caTelesSly protrud-
irg, ard a bound volume entitled, Choice
Criticism on the Art Exhibition Of PbiLadsJ.
phi0. Above this lay a thick, gorgeously
bound octave volume, The Lives Of PdiRters.
Upon it, by the way of satire, was a
broken plate, containing a half loaf of stale
bread, cut by a rusty knife. Several vol
umes made up the background, whose titles
were in admirable keeping with the subject
Calamiies of Authors, by the side of UniUsr-
sal History, and Signs Of the Times, Burton's
Anatomy Of Melancholy, Miseries Of Life,
Che1Ee on Vegetable Diet, Advantages of
POVei IN, third part, Pleasures Of Imggina.
ton, much worn, Pleasures Of Hope, a small
lsmo excessively thumbed and d~og's-eared,
the title page open, and the word Hope
tcrn ia two.
Alignment of a letter by way of a book.
mark pl OtTuded, with the inscription, "Phil
4 Dear SRA quarters Ient-now due-wil
wait 20 loDger-sue you" A package o.
unpaid bills. Two play books, We Fly By
Night No Song No Supper. Two very
neat cards on the table; on one of them was
writttp. "Mr, - requests that Mr.. Palette
will return the So he lent him out of love to
the alto painting" the other, "Mrs. Skin
flint requests the honor of Mr.. Palette's
company, on Thursday evening, after tea
A Toll Of drawings tied up in a fragment OIL
newspaper, bearing an advertisement, "Just
publis he'd. Proof that Philadelphia is the
most beautiful, the most hospitable, the
greatest patron of fine arts, and, in every
respect, superior to any city in the world
By an ihhabitant." Also, The art of Paint,
atg better advanced by criticism than by
patronage. Dec. u. 6 o. t.
THE beautiful estate on Prospect Hill wa
yesterday sold to Mr.. Penny, late cheese
monger, for 100000" "The City of New
York has ordered their Hall to be orna
mented with the portraits of distinguished
officers OF the Army and Navy. Also
u. States" By the side OF, this was a frag
ment of an article Distinguished Artist
Died in a Ditch" A shocking bad blacl
hat, with a generous weed on it, covered
+" WIN a pilht VI VIC LduBllnR hllOSOputT,
and a Iolled-up drawing, labeled PerSpectiv
Vie0 Of the county goal Of Phita, 1914.
On the wall was hung a ~placard-"Sher
ifs sale. The property of an artist, con
sisting of one cradle, one blanket, two pal
OF %rUffies, pettcoat, silk stockings and on
peck of potatoes. Four pictures; Roas
Pig, Turkeys, Decanters of Wine, and Plus
Cake from recollection. Fall of the Giantl
and View of Paradise, lG feet by 20. Com
forts Of MaJimoRy. Odd volume. Shol
cut 70 Wealth. Sermon on the UaRity
7r0rdiy pursuits" q
The picture was q wonderfully kee
satire, worthy of Hogarth, and fully equi
TO his best efforts; while in mechanical e1
ecutiOn it was unsurpassed. The difierel
handwriting on the cards, aud the varietiC
of tyfe in the lettering and newspaper
could not have been surpassed by the mo;
skilful penman.
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