Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-30
How Some Of the Men Of Fame Looked.

some OF the cele brites of the past as follows
There is remarkable disarrangement OF
three portraits one above another These are
pictures of " olsey, Of Richard the Third and
| OF Henry the Eighth, The portrait of w oil
sey Is well known-a profile with regular fea-
lures, and with keen. eager eye, which en-
| tirely counteracts the heaviness of the lower
, part of the face. There is no such redeeming
feature to do as much for the gross, heavy
| counenance of Henry, and the impressions
left % the mind by the two fat men are con
sequently widely different But it is the third
portralt, which divides these two, that seizes
the attention most forcibly. The picture NAV
or MAJ not be genuine. The internal evil
dence is strong in favor of its authenticity
The restless misery of this face of Richard
absolutely excites a feeling of pity There is
almost deformity in the features of this great
criminal the eye and the mouth are drawn
up on tae left side, Ell the parts of the face
are contracted in an excess of peevish irrita-
DIllty, which is also expressed with remarka-
bic force IN the very peculiar action o. the
small, Woman-like hands-tell-tale extremi-
ties, always. The king has screwed the ring
nearly of his right little finger, working the
trlnket backwards and forwards in nervous
anguish With the forefnger and thumb of his
| LETT hand,
There 4, noble contrast to this painful
| picture, cose beside it. The portrait of the
| Lord Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of
| the iiiustrous philosopher. There is no fdg-
ETY. ufeasiaess about this Sir Nicholas Bacon
| lie Is considerably fatter than Henry the
Eighth his face is a kind of clay color all
| over; Hps--whlch are turned inside out-in-
| GUIDED; AMI his little eyes have a twinkle in
| them which makes it easy to believe g that
| he was remarkable for his apt sayings and his
ready W.T. 1t Is moreover, said of this ol-
/ ly old gentleman that because of his fat he
! walked with difficulty, and that, after tax
| ing his seat upon the bench, he used to give
| three taps xth his staff on the floor, as a
| sign that he had recovered breath, and that
| business might proceed" The artist has rep
| resented Sir Nicholas with his staff in his
| hand, lifted as if in the act of administering
| the three taps to the floor. Take the staff
! away, and change the costume, and the Lord
| Keeper would look not unlike one of the
three tat men, who always appear like jury
seated behind counter in the entrance of
| French theatre.
In this sane room is a portrait of Sir Wal
ter Raleigh, which, if it be a good likeness,
shows that ie had a very sly and unprel os-
sessing expression about the eyes; indeed, in
the account given of this picture in the au
/ thorIZed catalogue, there is quotation from
! an old writer who, describing it, says of Ra-
leigh that lie had most remarkable aspect,
an Exceeding high forehead, long faced, and
sour eieliddeI kind Of piggc-eie" 1t
would be difficult to give better description
OF the hero OF the velvet cloak as he is here
represented
What bowis administered to the science
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES as a science
by the well-klown profile portrait of Wolfe
exhibited IN tbs gallery. From the extreme
! tip OF little nean turn-up nose, the line of
the profile reedes, at full gallop, to where
the still retresang forehead is lost in the
cocked-hat; W lie the lower part of the face
falls away almost more violently from that
same point OF departure, the end of the nose.
The upper lip Iecedes from the nose, the I'M
| der lip recedes from the upper lip, and the
chin is so small and so retreating that it is,
as a feature almost wanting; it might be one
| of the folds Of skin about the neck And this
| is Wolte-Wofe the heroic the wise-the
man whose Judgment and discretion were so
| early proved, That he was entrusted, at the
! age OF thirty-four, with that great and impor-
tant expedition against Quebec, in the sue
| cessful crisis of watch he, to use his own
| words, died contented."
| Another remarkable instance of head cal
| culated to surprise the student of physiogno-
| my Is the portrait of ,Jeffreys the cruel and
unjust Judge, This cruel, violent, drunken
Judge has, at first sight, the countenance of
a holy, sensitive, reflective person, with reg
ular, handsome features, and an expression
| of refined melancholy. Close scrutiny, how
| ever, reveals something cruel as we'll as mel
ancholy in the heavy eyes
| These, however are exceptional cases; in
| most instances, the portraits in the collection
are wonderfully true to the prec9nceived idea
| of the persons represented. Take, for in
| stance, the beautiful terracotta bust of Hamp-
! den. 1t would be difficult to imagine any
| rbirrr Tp,lca1 ha had i-a IL,
in its splendor. This bust of Hampden is
placed as pendant to one of Clpmwell, and
! it is interesting to study the difference be-
| tween the two men, allied in IA common cause.
| The energy expressed in the bu5 of Crom-
| well-which was modelled from lit-is so in
, tense that you almostexpeCt the old clay to
burst into action as you look at it. To stand
before it, is like being near a loaded Arm
| strong gun a steam engine waiting for the
twist of handle to tear along The road a
race-horse held back at the starting place
To change the destinies of great country
to convuse it from end TO end, andfrom side
to side, seems too small work for the thou
sandman power of such giant. HampdCn's
face and head are of a different type. With
less of energy than Croms ells-though Will
enough too, Heaven knows-there is more o.
refinement, more feeling He looks true
gentleman, in courage net second even tC
trOm"elI, IN EOnOt ana Integrity uIllnDeachl
BILE. When one takes with these two the
portrait of Ireton, also in tits collection, Ire
ton taciturn and reservedn the man who
was never diverted from any resolution h,
had taken," one can wonder Il nothing whicl
their united efforts were ableto achieve. L
would be curious thing to compare thes,
three heads of the men who headed an En-
glish revolution, with those ofthe chief ac
tors in the French Reign of Terror.
f Widely different from these portraits o
Cromwell and Hampden is painting of th'
celebrated Earl of CHESTERFIELD the author o
those renowned letters to his son, which wer
once thought to embody the perfection o
(worldly) wisdom. In one respect this por
trait is allied to those of Hampden and Crom
well, for it carries out ones previously forme
> idea of the man as completely as each 0
theirs does. Those refined, symmetrical fea
lures, the dark eyebrows contrasting With tn
= powdered hair, the cold, courteous, compose
countenance could belong surely to nobod
but this nan, distinguished in Literature, il
the Senate, and in the drawing-roon; tn
prince of courtierS.
How Men FIND Our THE Truth IN TisM-
OF practical teaching, the first task anc tn
hardest is to convince men of the truth the
: know already And howl this done 2v