Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-03-05

Hl ntlican sftl'is are DOinE III NCuit'
The studios are filling up mpiiy
artists have returned from their summer trips
and established themselves for the season.
Besides the regular resident artists. some new
ones are here for the winter. Among them
are Church, NcEntce, Clifford, Healy, DC.
An afternoon spent in calling at the studios
is an agreeable occupation.
Vt Air. Mozer's studio We found, besides
various successful and well-known works.
Lady OF Ayenel, The Peri, Undine, &C, two
or three new creations -Bebecca at the Well.
o very graceful and finely drapei figure
Peusar0sl. full Of Nit0nic feeling the Pro.
digal Son. carefully worked group. and
Rzpah.
Before leaving Mr.. Mozier'- interesting
studio, we must notice a curious piece of coi-
ored sculpture which he showed us. Paint
ed statues are repulsiTc u the modern eve
and taste. Gibson's tinted one in the Phil
adelphia Academy is a ghasrly thing, and it
seems impossible for us moderns TO accept
this practice Of the ancieuts But Mr. Aloz-
ier's statue happens TO be a pictorial subject,
and with the exception Of the face it i har-
monious and pleasing. The figure j. The
Went Of NisL-t0n-wish. The girl is listen
inc t1 her mothers voice with troubled mem
ory. In the unpainted statue the anxious
look of the eyes and the expression of the
whole face are very touching. but these are
lost in the tinted one. The costume and
draperv and the hesh-c5loring Of the legs
are beautiful.
Mr.. Buchanan Reads studio Is at present
one of the most attractive in Rome. He has
q portrait Of Cardinal Pentini, which is said
% be the finest one that has been painted in
Rome for many years. The expression of
the features. the col0ring Of the
flesh. the brow and temples, are life
ike. and the pose Is natural and easy. 1t is
a figure and head that recall the Leo y. Of
Raphael, and the portrait will live among
the great portraits Of the world.
But the principal object Of interest just
now at Mr. Reads studio is his unfinished
portrait Of Maria Sofia, ex-Queen Of Naples.
Mr.. Read has been closely engage Cor two
weeks ut the Farese Palace, where this
beautiful young throneess queen has been
sitting to our famous poet-painter, and his
subject has inspired him to create lyric in
his picture Enough OF the portrait is finish
ed to enable Us to read the poetic thought.
In the background is Nesuyius and a suns
The sky Is beginning to be dotted with stars.
The head of the Bavarian Bourbon queen
wears no diadem but her own superb hair.
winch lies in a high mass Of rudy chestnut
hue. and in the sky Just above this true regal
crown of beautiful w0manhood is the evening
star. The ex-queen's face has tragic points
in it, and in scme photographs she looks as
il she might be a bandits wife as well as
Bourbon princess.
In Buchanan Reads studio Is
another fine national picture, which has been
ordered by gentleman Of San Francisco.
This picture is deeply interesting one for
double reasons. The subject Is Shcridans
Ride. tits "a small copy Of the large picture
ofSheridans Ride which, when finished, to be
placed in the Union League of Philadelphia.
The General j. on horseback, and he and his
horse are in full tilt on that great ride which
made the General so famous, and which Mr..
Read has c0mmemorated in poem as well
known as the great ride. The Generals face
is as eager and full Of fire az the superb horse
is ofmettle and speed The eve Of the horse
is bl0odshot, the nostrils dilated, and from
the mouth falls heck of foam. The rapid
motion Of the animal Is finely expressed; the
whole painting is full Of spirit and life. 1t
is the poem and the warlike act in one.
But the gentleman who ordered the picture
with an artistic forethought worthy such lib
eral comprehension OF art wishing to possess
both the picture and the poem actuallyin one
has desired to have the latter inserted in the
frame Of the picture. At the head will be
placed the arms Of the United States; at the
base the poem Sheridan's Ride, in red letters
on gold. The frame is being made here in
/ Rome under the direction OF Mr.. Read. and
when the picture is completed and placed in
this remarkable surrounding, it will be a
possession of art whose value must 60 on in
/ creasing as years pass by.
/ Healy has Just finished and sent of to Milan
to be chromo-lithographed, a small copy Of
his great national picture, The Peace Makers
The large picture, which is to be P laced IN
the wall end of private when completed. is
now in progress at Mr.. Healy's studio. Ii
( has been ordered by gentleman Of Chicago.
/ The picture represents President Lincoln,
/ with Grant. Sherman and Porter, in the cabin
/ Of the steamer River Queen.-PutnaDl's for
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