Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-30
AMERICAN FEMALE ARTISTS IN ROME

The English sculptor, Gibson, is especially hap
py in initiating the antique. His figures Of
Pschye have a s~ylphized beauty, which places
them, in this respect, before the antique. But his
most interesting work, in my eyes, is his pupil,
a young American lady. Miss IIosmer. After five
years instruction from him, this gifted girl has
developed a perfectly peculiar and many-sided tai
unt. Her many perfected statues prove this, for
instance, her Hecuba, her Daphne, her Sleeping
Girl-a figure intended for a sepulOhral monu-
ment to the memory ola beautiful young English
lady, Miss Falcony, who when riding one day, on
The banks of the Tiber, the ground suddenly Civ.
ing way under her horses feet, she was drowned;
but above all is her peculiar talent shown by her
Puck, tie king Of all naughty little boys, whom
one could kiss and take q fancy to at once, az
be sits there ON bis throne of aeanIhus leaves and
mushrooms, and seems to throw a lizard at you.
Take care. lie is go full of life that-who knows
If he be not actually alive?
Miss Hosmer has already executed seven copiee
Of this charming impish boy, ana has yet orders
for more. She intends to make q counterpart to
Puck, in The form Of a girl which shall be called
Topsy, after the little African child 10 Mrs
Stoves excellent story Of : Uncle Toms Cabin. p
Miss. Hosmer has still her atelire near to that o.
her master. He seems to rejoice like a father
ever her. She is twenty-three years Of age, ant
has a small but well-formed figure, with an expires
sion Of energy. and health; she has also that pretty
round, animated countenance, the glance and arct
smile Of which have something Of little Puck II
them. She seems happy and full of tie freshness
of life, and will dedicate her whole life to art.
''ODly take care" said /, shat you don't fall il
%iove!'
''oh. 1 have already gone through that" sale
she, smiling, with an expression of Puck-lik,
character, call that is over!"
III mistake not, this Puck-like character is hel
own; Of course, in a proper degree. But. indeed
without something of the Peck, and a great deal 0
energy. q young woman could not have advanced
to-where she is.
Another young American lady Miss. Lauder
from Salem, in Massachusetts,, is studying also tn,
plastic art in Rome, and for the present, these twt
are the only female students in this branch of art
Miss Lander came to Rome as the pupil of the dis
tinguished American sculptor, Crawford, but sine
his tragical death-by cancer of eye-she ha
worked Independently. She has less talent, pei
haps, and less originality than Miss Hosmer; bu
her subjects are noble, and the expression OF be
heads at once pure and great. Thus, III her youn
Siberian, and in the bust Of the American novels
Hawthorne, with the striking head. Such an e,
preston as is there given proceeds from the soul
A third young American lady in Rome confer
honor on the new world by her unusual scienti6
culture; this is the astronomer, Miss Mitchell. Sh
is already known in Europe, as well as in Amer
ca, by an astronomical discovery, end she has com
hi,her to acquire knowledge regarding the observe
tory of Rome, and to communicate the same to he
native land. The Jesuits who have the care an,
management of the observatory, as well as of al
other scientific. institutions in the States Of tn,
Church, have, with great liberality and politeness
thrown it open to her, and given her oil the infor
nation she required. She found everything con
neeted with it in the utmost order and perfection
These gentlemen, the Jesuits. are distinguished fo
their profound knowledge Of the positive sciences
-F!ederika Bremer.