The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-13
subject b rich ana fair The painter won his repd-
tation by such subjects having made spectacle OF
Surrey harvest fields.


humorousy-a black-eyed. broadly smiling bright
kerchierei Irshlass who might indeed, be prettier,
on her way home from market-held In pleasant
hold by her boy, who. playing with his ragged blue
necktie hetates for words to pop the question that
Is setting his cheeks aglow and bringing down his
eyes IN genuine Irish bashfulness "Peace, l2o) by
+. Armitage, A. R. A., showing battlefield OF 1870
IN the Beance, perhaps, or the Bourbonnais, twenty
years hence What stops the ploughshare so oftens
Denied culrass, or unburst shell, or broken helmet
The red oxen areAeft to rest awhile from the
goad The bloused peasants gather from their
hoeing to look at this rusty crop OF wars sowing
The little child who sleeps on the potato sack in
the foreground, has been turning the spike Of a
Prussan ptccsIhau1e and lot OF Chassepot bull
lets into toys ranging the little blue cones
in q circle round the gay looking brass
spike. And virgu's lines come as fresh and
pat, TO these buried war relics as they did to those
OF the civil war fought out between Augustus and
Anthony. Letticet CT tenpus rentet cum nntbas
Hlis aoricota tncuruo terrain molttus aratro
1esa iaoeatet scabrd rub que Hla; aut arap,ous
rstrt 0a,eos p,llsaoI tnauss. From wars relics
to wars heroes. The painting bears evidence
OF the severity OF perhaps the iormality OF
French training. Armitage was a pupil Of
Dearoche, and was indeed, one Of the three
pupils selected by the master to work under his
direction on the great wall cycle at the Ecoe des
Beaux Arts. Fauhourg OF the Henri ;
READING BABY FRITz's UAND.
Mrs. Ward wife Of the academican, and who
should herself be an associate, If the Royal
Academy were true TO the teaching OF its founders
who included Angelica Kaufman and Mary Moser In
their first list, has painted the reading OF baby
Frtz's hand by a Spirltua!ist Swedish lieutenant
taken prisoner at Stralsund III 17l5 who saw In
the fat little palm the roll OF conquests, vicls-
STUDIES, rewards of craft and courage extensions
OF dominion and browning OF glory that made up
the history OF the Great Frederick. Mrs. Ward has
well conceived the lean, salow, abstractel mystics
In the long sklrted blue coat leather breeches and
heavy boots and bun BELTS we have learnt from tho
stage to identity the uniform OF Charles XII. Of
Sweden; and the p,easantlookng, II rather too fat
royal mamma of the fat little royal babe is true to
history and made interesting for all her supernuty
OF flesh. The most inatured thing that can be said
OF Mrs. Ward Is that you cannot distinguish her
paintings from her husbands. l do not say SO. for
can distinguish them. But he taught her to paint
and she naturally shows the influence OF her MASTER
Whether women should have a master Is problem
Young America must be left to settle for Old Eng.
land.
SOLD MoRTALITY''-A SPANISH CoNCLAvE
Eyre Grove, brother CT the latest and best
historian with Cavalcosele) OF Italian painting
another pupil Of Delaroche whose London studio
HAS Dc-u SHdEeu SluCc Tue war ny Ills more FAMOUS
friend and fellow pupil, Ger0me, has painted Sir
Walters "Old Mortality" In broad blue bonnet,
holden gray coat and ribbed hose, deepening the
inscription as the tombstone OF one OF the Galloway
martyrs for the Covenant The painting Is accurate
and thorough, II rather hard and dry. The eject OF
Delarocne's sound teaching Is to be seen IN 1t. II
you want to be warned OF the dangers OF rash ex-
perimentalism let Mr.. E. Long-one of the increas-
ing kind OF English painters who have sought
subject matter in Spanish life. allured py pictur-
esqueness and led by The brilliant successes won
with Spanish subjects by the late John Phillip
teach us in this large and clever composition Of
grave conclave OF Spanish divlnes and doctors with
Cardinal Pacheto at their head who in 1927 wishing
10 satisfy themselves as to the case OF q certain
pretty Preciosa-a gypsy belle OF the Triania-
charged with devIlish wirchcraft In turning wor.
shipiul mems heads by her dancing, had her to
dance before them, and were then and there them
selves bewtcned. that they not only let of the
sorceress but fell themselves under her SPELL There
is capital conception In the heads Of the divnes,
particularly that OF the pale, asceic Cardinal.
struggling against the unhaowed Ttana grace
that Is footing and flashing before him-another
criticism suggests itself 1t Is that the gypsy girl
SHOWS scarce sufficiently diabocal powers OF
fascination She Is rather tame and passee for his
work.
THE INEVITABLE "oUEEEy OF SCOTS"
How often has Mary Queen Of Scots been painted
How often is she destined to supply q subject Tor
the painters Mr.. L. s. Pott-the clever young pupil
o. er aonT oaMS the
staircase OF FotheringsY CASTLE, her way 10 the
great nail In which the scanold was set up, with
rigidy composed face, but fearful eyes, an opening
In her black velvet farthngale just revealing the
red undergarment IN which as we learn from
she presented herself on the scaf1od. She leans
lightly on the arm Of the officer OF the guard. whose
was not that came under her spell9 Behind all in
black, with grave, SAD faces, are the earls who
and attended her to the end, 1t is very clever ami
carefully painted picture, naturally showing the IN
BY the best work yet exnlbited by its young and
snE pa1n.s viii passing Glance at aeywoOd
ooorsa BaraaSy FUDGE IN his fantastic anery 81
rags and tatters with Knot OF sympathetic dogs at
n e ana nto raven Grip On the hand ne
exhibited by one Of our most rising young animal
pa; pain G. A. story,s group OF rosycheexed
way OF painting family OF pretty sisters from four
T. r. WATTS PORTRAIT OF LOVELY LADY.
We Will pass into Gallery No. 2. Close to the
door hangs one Of the lovcliest portraits OF the
Easinor one Of 's The Desnses Of Lon
s mUs oss fsnsa ans
intellectual oi our academicians, whose power IN
his art Is unhappuy limited and sometimes impaired
by feeble health, but who at his best stands at the
head Of English portrait painters for Intention and
true idealzing poverty which I mean the power Of
from the painters conception Of his character and
Of the features that express 1t. We shall zee him
at his best in his admirable heads lin No. gallery
OF Milars ana Leighton, bis friends and associates,
not only In highest academic rank, but in all efforts
10 stimulate the Academy In oil It's efforts raise
the arts by ample and sound teaching. These por-
traits are two OF series watch Mr.. Watts proposed
that he and his friends should paint OF each other,
Tor the purpose OF bequeathing them 10 the Acad-
envy. liberal and palnter-like idea, worthy oil the
man that conceived II. He could not have begun
the work better than by these heads Of Milars and
Leighton, &c, perfectly expressing the marked coa-
trast between the nashing, 1ery practical and IN.
tensey vivaci0us nature OF the former, and the
more dreamy, delicate and somewhat epicusean,
but slnguarly inceptivernd cultivated intelligence
OF the latter. Mi. wattB portraits, such as those
ne has painted OF Tcnnyson ana Browning, with
the lew Miliars mas painted--in particular that OF
John Fowler, G. E., the famous engineer OF the
underground METROPOLITAN railway-can hold their
own with the portraits Of any time or country. Mr..
Watts entertains the noble design OF painting the
most remarkable Of ms contemporaries, and that