New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-02
FINE ARTS.

THE PAINTINGS AT THE SOMERYILLE GALLERY
Seldom is more admirable collection of
paintings offered the public than that recently on ex-
hbition at the SOmerve Art Gallery and sold at auc-
ton the evening Of Thursday, last. IL com
prsed PICTURES many OF them the property OF the late
Mr. Charles Harvey OF Baltimore whose executors order
the sale The artists all modern men, though OF df
ferent countries Among the foreigners are Carl ubner
OF Dusseldorf Blum, Coutourer, Cale +. Beranger, g.
Navier. T.. Plassan, Doyen, Dejonghe, Lambert Lem
mers c. DAVID and Hippoyte lie Bias, OF Paris; 'ertn'
DE Beuel Gryps Scheeres Brussels; Bosch, julius
Hubner Harveng. OF Dusseldorf Rose, Bonaira, D. L.
Peele. Geo. H. Boughton, of London Meyer Won Bre
men, Artz, and H. Won seben. OF Berlin; Kreighof OF
Quebec. Pecrus Of Limoges. Paul Weber of Darmstad
Soyer Of Ecouen Our American art Is represented by
Huntington, Kensett, Baker, James and William Hart
Church. Casear, S. r. Clifford, VIM. T. Richards. whit
tredge i. Johnson, Gray. Hubbard, shattuck, Hays,
Brcvoort, Hicks, nness Cropsey. Weir, Durand TAFT
Geo c. LambdIn. Mrs. Spencer. Hennessy, barley and
others.
In almost every caseIhe picture fair specimen OF
the artists work OF course OF the pictures were
he commended for nothing unless it be the desire OF e
makers 10 do best they could purpose always laud
able but not always rewarded by prOpor0nate success
| Some had no higher aim than pleasing the eye VIII
arranged colors without much regard to trutl
of nature or truth Of feeling Some were weakly sent
mental-as for example, No 50, "Meditation. and No
81, "study in a Wood" No Co. DAY Dreams. and No. 81
"Gentleness" But the other hand there were really
good peces BreyoOr Haunted House was full OF senti
ment Innesss wood Scene" w. L. Richards's "Summe
Afternoon" s. Il. Chords Riviera dc Ponentc" Bough
toms 'Wnter Evening"" Kensetts Solitude Castelar,
Conway Meadows" James Harris Fog on the Lake
VIM Harris the Esopus" good enough TO awakcI
strong desire possession. Hcnnessy made the hack
neyed subject OF Maud Muller interesting by suggesting
| more than he told. Boughton's "Wtcbing Time o
Night was dclcatey painted piece OF dismal gloom
| solitude the witchery OF which consisted in mod>
| tomb placed where such tombs are not apt to be.
IL ia pleasing to the favorable parison which
our own artists hold with the foreigners. The French
and German artists excel Ia figure pieces Our men show
nothing like Carl Hubners Reading the Scriptures;
Passan's Reading Lesson ArtZ's "Fisherman's Family
H. Won Seben's Hide and Seek" but in landscape thu
advantage is clearly with artists Their work has
clearness freshness sincerity that miss in these
foreign pieces II they could get the temptation
mako pretty pictures eaten the eye OF the first behold
err there is why their productions should no
rank with those that all men admire. But when we feel
as we do in Cropsey's Castle Garden" Weirs STUDIO
Eensons Faded Flower" that the artist had no furhe
object than to attract by harmonious arrangement
coors no interest attaches to his work however exceen
| It may DO In details But these remarkably goo
pictures with suguarly few exceptions. There
many rooms that they would not adorn, and the mo
| they would beautify. The sale very successful