Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-13
A Famous Swedish NOvelist,s View of
American FeminIne ArtIata In Rnme.

III lNOulCn
The English sculptor, Gibson, says Fred
rieka Bremen, is especially happy in initial
ing the antique. His figures of Psyche have
q sylphized 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 Hosmer.
After five years instruction from him, this
girl has developed a perfectly peculiar and
many-sided talent. Her many perfected
statues prove this; for instance, her "He-
cuba" her Daphne" her Sleeping Grip
a figure intended for a sepulchral monument
to the memory of a beautiful young English
lady, Miss Fslcony, who, when riding one
day, on the banks of the Tiber, the ground
suddenly giving way under her horses feet,
she was drowned; but above all is her pecu-
liar talent shown by her "Puck," the king
Of all naughty little boys, whom one could
kiss and take a fancy to at once, as he sits
there on his throne of acanthus.l leaves and
mushrooms, and seems to throw o lizard at
you. Take carel He is 80 full of life that
who knows if he be not actually alive2
Miss Hosmer has already executed seven
copies Of this charming impish boy, and has
yet orders for more. She intends to make
a counterpart to "Puck," in the form of a
| girl which shall be called "Topsy," after the
little African child in Mrs. Stoves excellent
story of Uncle TOMS Cabin. Miss Hosmer
mas SIlll Lei dlclcI u6dF W LudL OF Qef mas
ter. He seems to rejoice like a father over
her. She is twenty-three years of age, and
has a small but well. formed figure, with an
expression of energy and health; she has
also that pretty, round, animated counte-
nance, the glance and arch smile of which
have something of little "Puck" in them.
She seems happy and full of the freshness of
life, and will dedicate her whole life to art.
"0nly take care" said /, that you don't
fall in love 2"
'0h, l nave already gone through that"
said she, smiling, with an expression OF
"Puck"-lik character, "all that is overl"
If mistake not, this "Puck" like charac-
ter is her W of course, in a proper de-
gree. But, indeed, without something of
the 'Puck" and a great deal of energy, a
young woman could not have advanced to-
where she is.
Another young American lady, Miss Lam
der, from Salem, in Massachusetts, is study
ing aiS0 the plastic art in Rome, and for the
present, these two are the only female stu
dents in this branch of art. Miss Lander
came to Rome as the pupil of the distiu.
guished American sculptor, Crawford, but
since his tragic death-by cancer of the eye
she has worked independently. She has less
talent, perhaps, and less originality than
Miss Hosmer; but her subjects are noble, and
the expressions of her heads at once pure and
great. Thus, in her young Siberian, and in
the bust of the American novelists, Haw-
tborne, with the striking head. Such an ex-
preston as is there given proceeds from the
soul.
A third young American lady, in Rome,
confeIs honor on the new world by her I'M
usual scientific culture; this is the astrono-
mer, Miss Mitchell. She is already known
in Europe, as well as in America, by an as
Economical discovery, and she has come
hitber to acquire knowledge regarding the
observatory of Rome, and to communicate
the same to her native land. The Jesuits
who have the care and management of the
observatory, as well as of all other scientific
institutions in the States of the Church,
have with great liberality and politeness,
thrown it open to her, and given her all the
information she required. She has found
every thing connected with it in the utmost
order and perfection. These gentlemen, the
Jesuits, are distinguished for their profound
knowledge of the positive sciences.