New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-13
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN.

tFhN Artials.j

WIN 0Vhc ukoe sao WI al ~
Probably no contributions TO the exhibition are ~
s cared for by the general public ~ the portraits
likely they were good. this would still be
n casej there are snigmas 90 puzxing - human
hp.s and the mass of people do not relish engmas
yt good portrait is thing; fewer really excel.
hut In tbs world saan Of any other class Of pic
krss and in day they good ststues
nod modern statue being IL web known, your VERT.
sNs black swan. Portrats therefore being "a rule
mere merohaDdise--so much fastered vanity aud so
usuy tubes Of color at many dolars-people pass
nsm by. and rightly too with less interest tan they
~ in dry goods window. and that exhibition Is
rdsred the best in which there the fewOst of them
This year. however. H. on the whole, they not
over than usual, we find Ut least. some that deserve
police There are, Of course the usual standing dishes
We knew that somewhere there would DO picture OF
little dear with shoe of. and one shoe o. squat
o. the floor. and looking vacary at nothing and it was
not far seek but 1t sign the times are improving
Nat there Ia but one and that, ANAL and hung high.
We are also glad to that the liking for fuengtb
hssixe portraits seems dying OUT there only four
tie exhibition. and these are all Of public men. and
pauted for the public. OF thess gives pleasure 10
y able to say that Mr.. Thomas Hickss portrait Of the
hte Mr. Pcrit painted Cor the Seamans Savings Bank,
lter drawn and the color much less crude than any
hing the artist has done for do not wish say how
rny years. Mr.. Hicks hiss much truer notion of
What ought to be the accessories Of such portrait than
sther Mr. Heey OF Mr.. Huntington far truer. certain.
b. than Mr.. Boyle. He has placed Mr.. PERT In o sim.
Ie easy attitude. without tie least pretense in CON-
irritable chair, by naturally Uttered table. and with a
good rug upder his feet. The only objection to chair
table and rug is that they are too ewooking. They
have not been in the house hour; We wish that be
sould have painted The old gentleman with the actual
Vell.worn surroundings Of his honorable AID useful
daily hfe This picture of Mr. PeTt Is the only
contribution OF his to the Exhibition which has any
merit; what could well be weaker for instance, than
10. 343i
Mr.. Healys portrait Of Archbishop McCloskey is
painted with his usua, cieverness and freedom. and
with lis usual want OF refinement The face OF
tbe venerable gentleman painful expression Of
sratfed vanity and delight in his hne clothes, which
Of course the frhest possible from that Of the real
eouptenance. There is, also determination that the
Episcopal ring shah be seen 81 tie expense of dis
location Of the finger which resembles tie suber
1hges Of Of large knd cheap bat snowy rings
n omnibuses and horse-oars. than the diendcd hu
1iity which is doubt characteristic Of the subject
We NO. in the least archaeological but we always
Thought that Archbishops wore q ring Of amethyst;
perhaps it is only Irish Archbishops who enc
kadi Such portrait this becomes more offensive
% good taste from the fact that ali this attudnizDg is
being done the steps of the altar for which
very sure that the artist alone Is responsible.
Mr. Boyles portrait Of Gov. Gamble Of Missouri is an
excellent specimen Of the fine old property gentleman
iii Of the oden time 1t 10 instructive to observe with
what conscientious fidelity Mr. Huntington and Mr.
Boyle staring at another from opposite ENDS OF the
same gallery follow the old .rsdionary recipes Gov
Gamble stands erect in the middle Of the floor in the
stttude usually ASSUMED by the boy who is to spout,
"Triends. Romans. Countrymen !" lie points. with a
nneaningess gesture TO sword which leans against
pedestal witch is bronze copy Of Houdons baSt OF
Washington. Behind him is table, and the back
ground is closed in b. marble Pillar and cu'tain
Perhaps our readers may have something like this
before The whole thing 10 so unreal so impossible.
% unmeaning theatrical, that the only reasonable
t1plsn alton 10 be that II Is az amateur rehearsal
Of els this dagger &C. 'ut tie catalogue says It is
Governor Gamble OF Missouri, and We must believe H.
Al VIC can say Is therefore, that she Govcrhor OF
Missouri in the year Of Lord 1865, has leisure ioE
such puerie performances, have been greatly msin
rmed to the state Of things in that sorey troubled
segion.
Ex.Governor Morgan. however not having any ac-
tive official duties may he excused FOR doing what busy
Governor Gamble should no account have time for.
Accordingly Mr.. Huntington carefully following the
same recipe which Mr. Boyle has with pains obeyed
las planted the Ex-Governor the middle OF MS hoor
srl put on hin his iaycre brown property oyer-coat
which SO many elderly gentlemen sters have worn by
CHS me that ii is wonderful how 1t keeps its color
Ele Governor not having learned his solioqny so well
o. Mr.. Gamble is reading il from one Of those mvs
terious rolls which nobody out Of picture
Eis sword is lying table; Mr.. CANDLES lie leaning
against pedestal but the recipe says this may be
Rome "if preferred" His copy OF Houdons bust Is oil
marble Mr.. Genbies Is of bronze. but ns everybody
Knows recipes always allow cerein ingredients 70 be
added TO your taste. However, tie pillar il there III
tAe background and the curtain 70 that one dish H.
Alter all, hardly distins ushsble from the other.
Now il really 10 that an sfst IN Mr. Hunt
ngtons position and with his long experience. which
Ought TO have enlarged The circle Of his ideas. might
sacrifice little convention and scedeio routine 10 the
epirit o. tho time We are sometimes accused OF IN
aeoessary hostility to tie Academy but when We see
low one after another submitting to it, intuenees
trained under its IS STEM W become deeccated
Noodles begins TO lose ambition to alter in growing
10 be content with what he has gained. to prefer the
sasy ,resd.inill 10 the healthy, toisone mountain
climbing we are sure the system is wrong somewhere
be harm 1t does greater than the good 1t does Sgca
n,ctures % tloso Of Heay's and Hnniingtons ard
Soylss would not b painted year after year. IN the
Aale old way. which never was good honest manly
$sy IL IL were not for Academies, here and elsewhere
Tori. is not ours alone that works so nischieYonsy'
Go through the English Royal Academy Exhibition ana
soa STE the sane tirescme old precedents and recipes
COPIED In the same plodding stupid fashion.