The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-08

himself to have been injured By their
action, resolved to leave the city of his
birth, never again to return to it.
This resolve he studiously kept, and
although residing for several years in
the immediate vicinity, and being q
large real estate owner IN the city, he
never revisited it, ceased to cOmmu-
cate with his former friends who re-
sided there, and apparently bauished
from his thoughts the fact of its exist
ence. From the day be left the city
he ceased to buy pictures. The artist
lost a good friend, and picture vendors
missed their best customer. The en-
tire collection was slowed away, ana
from that day to this has been secure
" guarded from every eye until within
the PAST month. MIR. J. Harvey
! Young, the we'll known portrait
painter. and director Of the Fine Arts
| Exhibition at the Boston Atheneum,
was employed by order Of the execu-
trix to examine and catalogue the col
lection.
Mr.. Young is probably the only
living man who has seen all these
pictures. They are stored In a most
unpromising street. and In a building
which no one would suspect of being
such a repository. MI. Young asserts
that although he had in his youth
some knowledge of them, and had
himself contributed one or tWosefforts,
yet when he entered the building and
found such immense piles closely
packed, one againstaGother, tier after
tier, and floor above floor, he was
aghast, and although devotiBg to the
work all the spare time which the de-
mands of his profession allowed, and
having all the assistance he required,
yet weeks were needed before any
thing like a list could be prepared.
: Bierstadt, the artist, who knew Mr..
Thompson well, and of whose own
! paintings there are some dozen or
more, expresses an opinion that q
similar collection cannot now be put
together for half a million dollars,
No single hall in the country is sufh-
|, ~ciently large to exhibit them. Some
J idea may be conveyed by the fact thai
when they were removed to their pres
! ent resting place, the actual cost oil
carriage was about $500, and 10 max
ing arrangements to remove the col.
lection to New York, not less than
+ ten freight cars will be required, ever
! if packed close without boxing or the
I: waste of any superhous room.
e Upon the catalogue made by Mr.
Young arc found signed pictures OIL
D all schools, many unquestioned origi,
nails, by such artists as Sir Charles
Q Eastlake, Thomas Lawrence, Sil
q Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Lely
s Godfrey Kneller, Allan Ramsay
George Morland, Gainsborough
e Phillips, Hogarth, Meadows, Etty
Q Turner, Nasmyth, Rumney, Opie
J Copley, Stewart, Newton, anC
, S~toddard, of the English school
and Boucher, Lambinet, d,
9 Bufe, Mignard, Baron, Burnet
S Isabey, De Dreux, of the French
a Italian, Dutch, and German, are rep
It resented By Schidoni. Guercina, Ten
8 iers, Seebach, Paul Zucoarelli, Van
dyke, Van Ostade, Diaz, Boucher
d Van Mas, and many others equalI
e we'll known, whose names have beer
;t made famous, and original picture
d from whose hands have become rare
There are a largo number of copie
and originals by the most celebrates
T artists of the fifteenth, sixteenth an,
seventeenth centuries. such as Titan
Rembrandt, Rubens. and Others
Many portraits OF the beauties O
= American society are buried beneatl
the weight of superintendent pic
lures. and will be brouget to the al
q and sunshine once more.
z American artists are largely repre-
, sented. and many of the early work
Z of men now famous may be foun,
here. some Of them giving the earl
: promise Of genius now at its zenith
e The names of Sully, Inman, Bier
c stadt, Duraud, Brown, Peale, Hart
Birch, Doughty, and nearly every on
= who was known ten years ago. may b
found largely represented on the cat
= alogue. The very last picture addel
: to the collection was the "SleepinI
|, Beauty" by Wight, of Boston. 1
y was purchased by Mr.. Thompson
= before it was finished, for the sum 0
$1,000, the artist retaining the RICH
: of exhibition for a certain time
: After being on view ct the rooms 0
Messrs. Williams and Everett, tn
: well known art dealers. it was fnalI
: passed over to the business agent O
! the absent purchaser, who never sax
il Ia its finished state, and sine
which time the beautiful "Guineth
!, has had a supplementary sleep of nea
" half a oor of years.