The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-20

| seventeenth stons lays upon the trees and grass
a peculiar shade of green that cofrec. them
| perceptibly. Number eighteen Just touches
| the checks, the mouth and toes OF the ooy win
mingled lake and vermiion, at which he
| smiles. The last seven stones continue the
thading, deepening and enriobins OF the pio-
| ture by applying TO different parts OF ~ the
| various mitigatIons of black. III IS then passed
| through the press upon stone whlch Is grained
| ture the r1ughness of canvas; after which 1t is
mounted upon thick pasteboard and Vanished.
| The resembanc to the original is then such
| that Il is doubtful il MIR. Eastman Johnson
| could pick out bis own boy If he were sur
| rounded With a number OF copies. 1t Is not
| every picture that admits of such uccessful
| treatment as this, nor does every chromo-
| lithograpber bestow upon his productions so
much pains and expense. A salable picture
! could be made OF this boy in ten impressions;
| but as we have seen, he receives twenty-slx;
| and the process might be prolonged until
| small quarry of stones had been expended upon
| him. Some landscapes have been executed which
| required ffty-two stones, and such pictures
| advance TO completion by process extremely
| similar to VEat employed by an artist. That is
to say color is applied to them very much in
| the same order, in the same minute quantities,
| and with an approach to the same Intelligent
| dehcacy of touch. 1t is an error TO regard
| these interesting works as mechanical. mere
| mechanic, it is true, by a certain Chinese SER
| Witty OF copying, can produce an extremely
| close, hard imitation of an oil painting; and
much work of this kind is done in Germany
and England. But in our Boston establishment
employed in producing fine pictures. The
artistic work is executed by artists
Of, of TePute' who ~, have themselves
the kind which they are employed to initiate.
Any one who watches MIR. Harring transfer
ring to long series, of photographic stones Mr..
ceiye that ne is laboripg in the spirit of an
artist. 1t would be highly absurd to claim for
any copyist equal rank with the orator of the
original or to say that any copy eau possess
lntriDEiH X1lDa Ru is
unjust to 1educe to the rank OF artisans the
skiltul and patient artists who know how to
catch the spirit and preserve the details of a
fine work, and reproduce in countless copies all
OF both which the public can dis Cern."
Ahe article on "0ur Painters" has the follow
ing about Thomas Sully, The distinguished
| Philadelphia artist
''THoNtAs SULLY.-He, too was English by
| bilth, but, in hls character, manners, appear
ance, and style of painting. he was The very
strength, but being refined, sensitive, courteous
| and gentlemanly, he threw his own character
| into all his pictures, and came to be the Sir
| Thomas Lawrence of America. Wanting the
| robust heartiness, and the rich, unctuOus humor
| of Jarvis, he bad sense OF beauty, a perception
of the graceful and bewitchiug-of that which
| gives q hlgh-bred woman dominion over man
| of which Jarvis was wholly destitute. Hence
| the women OF Sully, like the men of
Stuart and Jarvis, were generally masterpieces.
OF o. a slight frame; ia, limo @Slndly tem6er' and q q
|
fifty, as if he were still young man, like Leigh
| Hunt with an air of high breeding which could
not well be counterieted Mr.. Sully has always
been a favorite with the better part of man
kind-the women OF his day. His female por-
traltures are oftentlmcs poems, full of grace and
tenderness, hthe flexible, and emotional; their
eyes, too, are liquid enough, and clear
enough to satisfy even husband or q
lover. Nobody ever painted more beautiful
eyes--uot even Gansborough, nor Sir Thomas
Lawrence, nor West the Kentuckinan, who
after his return to New York, painted these
cairn-gOrms and crystal wells, Just as we see
them i'll our young dreams, while yet over
ripping to the hnger-ends,' But Sully's mer
were failures; even Mr.. Patterson, the father o
Madame Jerome Bonaparte, with his fine classi
cal head of the Roman type, though an excellent
likeness Of the outward man, was but shade v
in comparison with what Jarvis or Stuart would
have made of the subject, while his portait o
Mrs. Robert Gilmore would be enough
to establish his reputation as q devou
and earnest woman -worshipper. Sully used u
play the flute hike master. and may do so yet
although, when last heard from him, he die
not happen to say so, while speaking of hi
pastines; and he continues, dare say, what II
called ladies' manly which we are not t.
understand thet he ever was coxcomb, o.
etfeminate, or intensely tashinonabl$ but that
by nature he was made for the compan onshil
, OF lovabe women, being always gentle, con
qiderate, and reysrentisl to .totiUs1 the sex n
.. m ture but once, and that only to give away y
t Having been called upon for fulllength 0
l | Washington by the 'corpol alton of Southern
e | city-Charleston, perhaps-hs fixed the price
e not more Than i've hundred dollars believe
e and then, the treatment being left wholly Il
Il himself, he painted him on horseback, with
!. trimmings or accessories and gave to the worl,
a what he called a portrait, while others, VIII,
:. saw the truth more clearly, called 1t remarks
0 bly, fine historical picture-the Passage OF the
c Delaware with General Knox, and a corps o
:, artillerymen shouting and tuggng at the guns
e The white horse on which he had mounte
II Washington was emphatic and spirited, that
# when first eaw Vandyck's William of orange u
/, Warwick Castle, thought he had borro we
e largely from that; and so dropped him line o.
9 the subject, to which he replied by sending m
IS q sketch OF his battle charger and the majesti
) rider, and showed that | was altogether mis-
IS taken as to the position, drawing, and character
IS Alter Triumphant career of twenty-five O
e thirty years, Mr.. Sully had redIized, as we sa
!, Down East, handsome property, which b
/. invested IN PepnsylYahi bonds, or sometbiu
Z, OF the SORT and like Sydney Smith and the Aus
j, tins, lost the whole or nearly the whole, OF hi
e lifelong accumulatious aud hOaUded savings
: But, andiscOuraged, and full OF heroic resoll
y ton, he set to work airesh, and built himself
y large painting room and began life anew, fC
the second or third time, with large amil
5 upon hIs hands, and hardly shot in the locke
e AT one time, while / was abroad, he wIote u
G TO say that he had plenty OF applications, bG
i no OF ders ard AS he ba0 been long in the hab
o of making studies in black aud white Crayon
e whenever subject oflered the good people
e Philadelphia, HE patrons, seemed to think thi
such view, being only sketches, you know
I; were but o pleasant pastme for the arts
b and hardly worth acknowledging. He one
4 made three or tour studies Ot "A charming tema
l tace for the family and friends, mayhap IL
n husband, to choose from. and chanclng to
{, near the window, after having waited sever
n days for the answer his attention was attracte
n by q negro coming round the next corner wit