New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-13
FINE ARTS.


ing the medieval period, and OF the sub-lIeaSury
fhe Croton Reservoirs the Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
A-Souls-C Church, Trinity Chapel School House, and
the Yale School of the Fine arts buildings tbs
erected in our own country. In the course OF tho
discussion, Mr. GambTill asked whether the me
chanics names should be added to that of the achl
ton Of a cbmrcb he had built in Boston the clergy
man had deduced from the text mousse not l." ,
with hands" THAT the structure was ouit, not 10y
the hands of woTkmen, Dut pS 5no pam o ", wor
chitect Mr. Up0hn. ST., Thought mat go9u Molh .
men were nevertheless, entitled to honorable mem
ton The sense of the meeting seemed 10 oe, tnat
an architect las no equal I'm ont "f H. client lint
that il is desirable in the case Oh pupo puiIuins
TO insert the monogram OF the alcnito0V e0iN0"'i'
on the fnCe OF the structure .. =
De Yries of Boston, has published portrait Oh
Charles Dickens, Autographed from recent pno'o-
graph The likeness is rs GOOD as any hhehess o'"
no that renresents face full of life and expression
and rarely at rest in quiet and impasslve mood q;
So far as we know there is really good portrait OF
Dickens. published and he is one OF the lew dls,
tngushed Englishmen oil whom mere Is iG o,a,
almost every notable modern man ana woman ~ U"
he met with But, Brady VIII nave lhls hoDlo nun
netted before he has been many Gays among NO.
The museum of Brussels has just purchased, ar
ter n prolonged negotiation, celebrated picture py
Tepiers known as the Grand kirmessc oil IcnieIs IL
has been since 1852 when it painted, in the pos
session of the BOSchaeTt family OF Antwerp III NuIc
il has been handed down as an helrloon All the great
amateurs of Europe have long known oil TINS piciuie
and large sums have been. from time 10 time offered
to induce its posscssOrs to part WIN ~ bI aWays ~
vain Very recently il was reported thar Rothschlld
had bought IT, but, though this was not true u was
greatly feared that this important specimen OF len
however is no longer possible. The museum OF Brns-
sells has paid l25C00 francs for II, but 1t Is not con-
sidered dear bargain, and its purchase makes inc
collection, 50 far ms Ienicfs IS concerned superior 70
IL. lf,rxt CoN 70
81. Prtclsburgh and TO these ii is not inferior.
Mr.. Thomas Balls statue of Edwin Forrest, COM
mssioncd we believe, by admirers of the tragedian
in Boston and intended TO be erected in some con-
spicuous place in that city Of statues is now being eX
hibitcd at No s12 Broadway II is very creditable
production and while il cannot bc said to Halter the
veteran actor it does the best that possible TO create
n favorable impression of his face and figure In SIZE
il Is colossal and IL represents MI Forrest IN me
character of COriolanus. part IN which We should
think he would appear 10 considerable adIahtagei
az least he Is better suited 20 II than he IS TO iamt
though perhaps, he wond not agree WIN us III tllls
opinion. Dir. Ball, however, has not been able win
all his art 30 make his statute anything more than
the portrait of magnificent animal "A Tremendous
body supported ON admirable legs hnt WIN ace
whose lack OF intellectual expression is explained ny
the small size Of the brain behind IT, On the whole
this statue, if looked upon simply as portrait OF
Mr.. Forrest, must be accepted as an uncommohy
good one; but II is neither the COOlanuh OF history
nor the CoriOlanus OF Shakespeare. THIS II must be
admitted. is not Mr. Balls fault who has done his
part of the work exceedingly well.
At Mr.. George p. Putnam's, in Broadway, there
isa large water-coor drawing by Mr. barley, the only
water-color by this artist that we eversaw We Ike
him so little in black and white, that we did not
think we could like him worse in color; but we do
We should not advise him TO try the experiment
again; for we Judge from this specimen that TIE
sense Of color is not in him. Nor Is bis power 10
represent character any stronger than 1t ever was
This is an Italian scene but of barley people IL Is
true that "cpum non corpora Wutant, qni Trans
mare cuuunt." Let any one take almost any en-
craving after Dariey-say one OF ms idp an WIN
ke illustTatiOns-and be viii easily zee tlat theie
are the same lay figures dressed now 10 tOdices and
shcepskins instead Of quilted petlrrats ana bagEl
breechcs Scarcely of our artists Is 80 hammered
and uninventve as barley, or has repeated himself
50 pcrsstcntly through long series u years.
Cadart has failed. Who is Cadartf CadaIt is the
heroic French person who shipped himself on board
q ship; ho longcd strange countries for TO see. He
shipped himself on board ship. and came to vile
Amerkeeo But beside his curiosity, he was filled
with benevolence lie wanted. frst of all. TO teach
Ms something about art, of which he supposed such
Bnotians THAT was the pretty name be called us by
must OF course bc densely ignorant and, when we
were started be wanted 10 make us admire and buy
the abOminably bad pictures lie traded IN. lie hJd,
not illOgcally To the conclusion that the btst
place 10 sell such pictures WAS one where the people
were the most benghted. lie came. ana o. the very
start showed himself good Yankee as the best of
us by buying newspapcr-he made the tdltof DIS
agent TO sell his pictures for him for a percentage-
and thus securing gratis, daily supply OF those
puiis in which Frenchmen delight, and winch
they write with such generous abandon, linen, ne
issued circular written with such insolent concoit'
i'm such astonishing English that ~ put the town
into CONFUSION Of laughter. In two days the de
mand for the circular had deyOurcd every copy. As
the secondhand booksellers say in their catalogues.
il is now Very Rare His pictures were so cunously
bad that rmnor went about that they were only
cOlored Autographs, and this slander-and II was "A
SANDER on the Autographs reused the Ire OF CadaTt
TO that degree that he packed his wares and went TO
BostOn-a place. Of which We are oredbly informed
he had never even heard before his aTrVal-whero ne
made ripple the surface Of society, and sold the
few respectable pictures he had Tor eNtraYagant
sums. Then he returned to Paris. and the next year
came over again, announcing before he started that
he was still bent on instrncting and improving our
people, though thus far he had found us obdurate
sayages, and very unpronisng subjects LOT mission.
airy effort. But, alas for Cadan he found that
his efforts to eDlgen us had proved TOO successful
for his own good We had all found him out and
his second visit a complete failure lie failed az
lac deserved to fail people always fail who take
it for granted that they can palm on bad things for
good things, and who persist in believing that the
whole community IL 10 be Judged by It's lowest and
most Ignorant members. III Mr.. CadaTt had come
here like gentleman, opened his gallery quietly and
mOdestly and waited patiently to see how much
knowledge our people had, he would have found that
everything good In his collection would have been
appreciated at its full worth and readily bought and
he would have seen II 10 his substantial interest
to bring better and better things over here not
worse and worse. We trust his melancholy fate may
be warning TO future FrenChmen who may be
seized with this missionary spirit.
The statue of Edward Everett by Mr.. Will
liam Story has reached Boston, and been set up In
the Public Garden. II is in gold bronze-an exceed
ingly ugly material, at least when it is new-and OF
size considerably larger than life. The Boston
people, who ought to know, say that it is likeness,
and all the Boston boys making fun of the atti-
tude. 1t certainly seems TO NE that tho action both
for the sake of art and truth to character should
have been less strained and violent II il true that
Mr. Everett did often make of gestures IA forcbe
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