The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-23

does not send q single picture. Nor has Thomas
Moran contributed his landscapes, nor Peter Moran
his cows james Hamilton, whose genius is ireess
as the sea whose waves he has mastered bidding
them storm 10 the clouds, or murmur on the sands
at his will has sent but few pictures and but two OF
any importance-"Li Liverpool Harbor" (No. 699J, ano
"scene on the Thames" mo. 67O Not one of his
Niagara pictures IS vouohsaed Us, probably because
the best of these great studies in which he has been
engaged for year, yet unfinished. Nor does
he exhibit single sunse. which Is much splendor
lost. Samuel Walker, however, has endeavored to
supply the want OF those magnificent skies IN which
Hamilton is unrivalled and has said to the Sun OF
Hamilton, like a new Jo7hul, "stand still" and
thus fixed it on his own cinvas, where 1t burns with
diminished lushe. The largest OF all che marines
is c. G. Rorenberg's New York Bay" mo 1881
Bonfed contributes two or three.
We do notlike much land and so little sea, aud
hold the delinquent artists responsible Mr.. Moran,
doubt, he walks about the rooms where no
picture of his is seen, thinks how Smith IS crlti.
czed and Jones abused, may quote Shakespeare
and say, "Let the CALLED jade vince, our wIthers
arc unwrung." But as he is usually more praised
than blamed, this exemption from criticism will
hardly console him for his error in not exhibiting
something. There have been years when the ma
rines in the Academy amounted to deluge-but
this Is a drought
Inc portraits are DeJt9r tnan the average, and
there are very few of those dreadful mockeries OF
'the human face divine" that Jonathan Miller used
to try to hang out of sight the ceiling. Sully
exhibits several beautifully painted pictures with
all that and grace for which he is famous, the
best being "The Girl at the Well" mo- $751;
Waugh, j. H. Lambdin, Conarroe, Winner,
Mathews, Fisher Trego, Petit, and Rosenberg, are
among the principal contributors. H. Balrne sends
General Grant in the Trenches at VIcksburg" mo
1861 and think there must be half-a. dozen por-
traits Of abraham Lincoln" Schussele gives
characteristic portrait of "Peter Cooper" excel
lent likeness. W. X. Hewitt, who has made such
rapid improvement that no one could guess. from
his present works, that or eight ears ago he
quite bad painter, exhibits a number ofcapita
portraits, one especially, group OF children and
d og (No. 626), deserving high praise.
In the miscellaneous pictures exist, probably, the
chief merit and interest of the exhibition. At most
of them we had merely time to glance but could no
mistake the beauty of Bouguereaus "Before the
Bath mo. $751; nor the force of John Neagle's
Cupid" (NO. 5S2l IN which the little god signl6-
canly plays with the doves OF Venus and the shield
of Mars sully's "Red Riding Hood" (NO. 642)
peeps out with singuarly sweet expression George
Lambdin has large number Of his delightful COM
mon-pace subjects.
In the northwest gallery is large painting by A.
| f. Bellows, "The Echo"(No 707l which we thought
deserved more attention than we had time TO give
it. "The Recognition" mo. 773) by Constant Mayer
is a large, bold picture representing two brothers
meeting on the field OF battle. The Rebel soldier
bends above the dying Federal shocked to think his
musket may have sent the fatal bullet. There is fine
feeling in this work. Beard exhibits "Not Caught
Iet' (No. 775) picture OF capital humor, in which
mouse escapes out OF one end of a basket, as his
| pursuer leaps into the other.
Tn fha oufbv Col nhar,
and plaster casts several of great beauty There are
| Karnisch's model for a monument to Lincoln
statuettes Of Longtelow and Bryant by Kuntze,
bust of Albert Barnes, and 4 head by Palmer.
This rapid sketch of the galleries does not, of
course, even touch many of their most interesting
points Though the exhibition does not contain one
picture worthy to be called great, it has abundant
charms for the lover of true ant. We have merely
given general opinion of its Characterization
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