New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-23

| renee" one OF his grandest compositions
| From the contemplation Of this immortal -FOUR, Miss
Tytlcr turns to the German Abrecht Durer-eood ana
great and awfully hen pecked, by his handsome, III
tempered WIFE Giorgone another fascinating Italian
figure who died young, and had alwaysa peculiar Ine-
anchoiy in his dark glowing eyes VINO would imagine
| that GudO-panter Of Ecce Hom0s ana OF sahts-Was
40 addicted 10 gambling and grossly extravagant that
he was always In debt and used often TO sell his tine
by the hour to picturedeaers, who stood over n''n
watch hand to see that did not cheat Them ana
carried away the saints he manufactured wet from tue
three hours being often long enough TO create
| saint
But here we have them ai-the giants Of the past
OF them holy serving the LORD In every soho
Of the brus-some, reckless geniuses who painted hso
angels but fought and gambed and lived, and loved,
like sinners. Rnbens. ana Rembrandt, and Veasquez,
and Murillo, and Claude Lorraine and Van Dyck, aho
Canaletto and all the rest Of the grand and briians
company the elect OF art know single volume from
which You can learn so much of these great men and
| their great works.
The companion volume" Modern Painters and their
Paintings"-is equally comprehensive and valuable. III
begins with Thornh, English artist. born In 1910,
and brings the stately story Of art down TO our own
time. Hogarth the first well-known painter men
toned He not altogether successful in his own
day, and forced, at %, TO run away with Jane
Thornh whom he wanted to marry because her father
satisfied with the birth the prospects OF the
artist IL was no doubt great modification TO Hogarh
that his cotemporaries only partly appreciated him.
His series Of six scenes, known as Marriage a la
Mode" sold by auction, when the painter In his
47th year aud in the hight of his power. DULY one
bidder appeared at the sae and the whole series was
knocked down to him. at a hundred and ten guineas,
while frames alone had oost the painter twentyour
guineas. His runaway marriage turned out most
happily, though VIM. and Jane Hogarth had no chiuren
The painter died when he in his 68h year but his
wife survived him for some tme and was quick to anger
if any failed to do justice TO the superiority of her
dead lord. Hogacth was honest, frank, blunt, and
benevolent He has been equaed among painters
as a mOrast and a satirist OF social focs. He could
afford 10 paint thus since his life was clean, and
honorable, and sefrespecting
A new decade in art began with Cir Joshua Reynolds,
who born in 1923. Sir Joshua never married. but
his house in Leicester Fields was kept by his homely
kindly sister, Frances Reynolds; and was the chosen
resort of much OF the 18th century wit aud wisdom
rank and fashion Very inexpensive those coverings"
were modelled the royal invitations TO tea sent out
by George Ill and Queen Charlotte; but very match
less when the guests included johnson and Garrfch,
Goldsmith and Burke, and DR.. Burney, with whom
came his young daughter Fanny Sir Joshua's social
gifts scarcely inferior TO his literary and his
animated conversation with his stters-whch actually
them forget that they sitting for their por
traits-was OF his For portrait
painter he has been exceed by none OF his country
men, and hardly approached by any. 1t is a quaint
though pleasant picture which Miss Tyer gives OF
the first President of the Academy little dapper per
haps little precise; but always gentleman, cOurtly
| courteous, and without reproach.
very different but quite attractive figure his
rival, GainsbOrough-as impulsive and rash SIR
Joshua discreet and prOvideDt GainsbOrough
Tied, at 49, one Margaret Burr who was loving wife TO
him. and to whose fond alone the preserve
ton OF many OF the great careless painters drawings
Gainsborough continually wranged with Sir Joshua
Reynolds but during his last illness. and short time
before his DEATH he sent for Sir Joshua and expressed
his entire reconciliation with him. Sir Joshua was
! deeply moved as he bent the bed and Cams
borough murmured, I'VE all going to Heaven and
Van Dyck is OF the company" Gansborough ranks
among the first if not the very first Of Engish land
scspe painters Rus1n pronouuces him the purest col
Orist OF the whole English school, and worthy to take
rank in this respect with Rubeus. He confosses that
his beloved Turner "is& child TO GansbOrough"In
the purely technical part of Anting
Sketches OF Wilson, Fusel Benjamin West and half
dozen more bring US to VIM Blake, born l757 and
Of the most peculiar and interesting figures in the his
tory Of art. lie VISA designer, ap engrayer painter
poet, mystic. When hG was wenty Years Of
age he married poor girl, named Katherine Burtcher
conducting me courtship Gin his odd, gentle in
domitabe fashion" He had been telling the girl
OF his troubles when she said. 81 pity YOU" "Do you
pity me 2" responded Blake then love you for it,"
and so they married. Never before since HAD
any poor genius WIG more absorbed in him and his
work, more sympathetic and uncomplaining Was he
crazy or Experimentation seeri Who knows9
Wen visitor went TO take seemingly empty chair
and vas motioned back with the indignant cry "Don't
YOU see It ,lready occupied" ne naturally asked ABy
,homi" "Wby, Lot s sitting there" says the PAINTER
quietly and goes on painting the great ncpt and
angels pouring spotted plaques and uries in the
sun. No doubt that visitor thought the
painter mad; and half The world agreed
he seemed all the uIpF TO grow happier His last
home was in FounJ9.a Court Strand where kindness
Of friends In OdJlng his poems placed him beyond the
r4ae want. "Hc began to illustrate Dante, and he
still tinted his jerusalem sitting DOlstered up In bed,
in order put the final touches it, before be said 1t
is DONE cannot mend it, As he had rejoiced In lfe he
rejoced in death. telling his wife, glory III dying.
have no grief put In leaving you, Kate" Then he
asked for pencils and brushes. that he might paint
likeness OF her. and died, at length, peacefully
that she. watching him always with her tender eyes,
did not know the moment when he passed away. He
died in his year. Beside his strange designs he left
not less than hundred Ms. volumes OF verse; large
part which is the hands of the painter Rossett,
who Is soon to give us a volume of them.
Turner, the great landscape painter. born in l775,
was another eccentIicity, and in spite Of his brilliant
artistic career much less winning and agreeable one
than Blake. 1t was only as painter that Iuruer was
great; his life was fOrOrn and In appearance he
waR a short stout man, with very red and somewhat
botched face in which the eyes were bright and rosI
less and the squiline. His hands were fat and
Thornbury says they the smallest and the dlrtes
on record He was in the habit of setting out on soil
tary tours letting know his destination, and
holding no communication with any one at home. To
ward the close his life added TO this practice tho
odder habit of not occupying his house, but living
here and there In obscure lodgings for weeks at tmc
and under assumed name the better to secure his
privacy. In these circumstances, while lodging in
a small cottage west OF Battersca Bridge, under the
feioned name Brooks BOOTH died In Decem