New-York tribune., 1868-06-29

work going to America-a picture by G.: l.. Brown,
which the catalogue undertakes to describe as Inc
meeting Of General Washington with the DUKE ol
IauZm for the purpose of deciding on an attack bS
the aterOf New-G ouceser then occupied by the dra-
gOOns of Colonel DaTctOn. on the eve OF the catu-
lation of Lord CORVALLIS at yorktown lou
can't dispute catalogue, ana so Wien Noi
have read this lOngiSh scrced yOu accept
Washington and the Duke on paper, IN the NINA
eve and return 10 search for Their Visual presence on
the canvas. The two mounted hOiSemCu ON the sea
shore must be they. between them. Which Is W.
and which the Duke is question you can best settle
by the process which the French style par roe dc1-
cits0n as. on trying one of them by your reHem-
brance of Stewards and other historical portraits,
You are that he cannot be- then tho other must
be G. W. On closer examination you also discover
that the hOrsenan nearest you does look less
unlike George than the other. In the back
ground are other mounted men, squad OF i0ur
or six CHiTGSScrS There are boats on the water New
Gloucester, Col. DaIeton Tarleon y; his dragons;
the Eve of COmWaliS's Surrender ut Yorktown, ahn
the rest painted out of sight The picture is well
enough composed but 1t is no more historical thal
Dubute's flaming grand opera scene, entitled the
Prodigal Son. bought last year by the same wealthy
American citizen it is however, better painted, and
with some other title-.escarch in European military
history could very likely lead TO filter one-may
hold respectable place in his gallery
George Washington, himself has two good pictures
this year-lis fayOrite AlgeIine subjccts-wllch
provoke comparison with Fromentin not altogether
odious to their author. This g. w. is not our own
George, but q born and bred French George Wash
ugtOn. oddly enough, his Signature-without atcc-
IallOn ana pIOb3blN WITHOUT hlbNlthEt VI Nh'
similarity-bears chrOTaphic family likeness to
that of the Father of our Country, May has an
"Ophelia" which sets one thinking of Shakespeare, $,
and is injured; the expression of insane woe Is
almost painful in its truth TO one who has had the
misfortune 10 il come on known face, eStlanglng
wonted acquaintance and friendly custom. smaller
seated figure, Mohcre, if You choose, displays
Mays strength in coloring almost at its best. Bah
cock has a still life, of which felOw-artst Justly
said: That is nearly perfect as the kind permits"
Tho most fanatical pre-Adamitc of prc-Raphaehtes
could botanic its vegetables and chthyologIze on
its mackerel When we first saw II in Babcoc6 room
last Spring, c. c. G. fell into TaptureS over the arrange
ment and the hanouized contrast of the poneauX
and the dull earthen pot and the Opalinc briance OF
tho mackcTes side it made my lower sense hungry
for fish dinner. OF other American exhibitors Mr.
IIemlck of Cincinnati and Nh Bacon of Boston pre-
sent little game pieces from EcOuen infants 0i the
Edouard Frere school-prOmSing scholars, but keep
ing too closely in the material school bounds. Mr.
WelCh Of Charleston has portraits of Sonewaii Jack
son and X. L. Lee badly enlarged from photographs
and six specimens of mezz0tint that are less bad In
the Department OF Sculpture is medallion OF In
coin by "a French artist, a good deal larger than liie
and, it seemed to me, the worse for that, though
cloverly done the argcneSS of the W3n Vac 80 90
his size; MarsIalls "nsf"~i"s - gIe Ncl SIe'''0i'