The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-16

of England to give pleasure to the thou
sands in attendance ut the Worlds
Fair are accomplishing the object for
which they were sent. The room in
which they are kept is always thronged
with visitors. "The Marriage of the
Prince Of Wales" contains l39 figures,
all portraits, which though small, are
apparently true to life. Near by is a
printed card with heads grouped rs in
the painting, and numbers by which
one can pick out the guests, all Of
whom are distinguished in the ranks of
royalty or the nobility. There is a
portrait of Victoria in her coronation
robes Looking from that youthful
face to the face of the royal mother who
at her sons wedding wears not crown
but widows cap, We see that high
estate has no power to resist the fight
Of time, or to e6ace the words which
are written upon all: passing away.
The banquet scene from Macbeth,
Samson and Deilah, Rape of Gany-
mede, May Day in the time of Queen
Elizabeth, and portraits of Hannah
Moore and the Duke of Wellington, are
conspicuous among the Queens pictures.
Some Of these are by Gilbert Stuart,
and some are by Benjamin West.
Dolbaddo- Castle, small, dark, pic
ture might be overlooked, and yet it..
was painted by Turner. Among the
pictures loaned is one in the U. S. GAL
lery Autumn, which is represented
as a young woman crowned with au-
tumnal leaves aud fruits, with her left
arm around the head of a sheep, and in
the right hand pair of shears, with
which she is shearing the wool and
filing basket at her si.le. No part Of
the sheep is shown but the head, and
that was painted by Rosa Bonheur,
and the remainder of the picture was
done by gentleman named Dubufe.
In the U. S. gallery are two fine
views Of the Yosemite, one by Hill and
the other by Bierstald. The latter is
generally considered as a landscape
having no superior in the whole exhibi-
ton. OF cattle pictures there are none
to excel one in the Belgian collection
copied by Altman from picture
painted by Paulus Potter in l647.
There are three other large pictures in
the same room by the same artist which
one would think mi ght be the work of a
life time, judging by size and evident
accuracy. gentleman from Iowa who
had seen but little of painting, house
and sign painting excepted, and Yet sure,
without any assistance, to pick out the
gem of the art gallery, very truly OBJ
served while viewing the aforementioned
pictures "Well, that Altman knew
how to sling paintbrush, sure.''
Of the many pictures representing
the human form divine The Rest is
greatly admired by people Of cultivated
artistic tastes. 1t represents a sleeping
beauty in hammock over stream in
the woods, with one dainty foot touching
the water. Nowhere does sunlight shine
out from canvass more wonderfully THIN
in the picture of The early Christian.
The young man is lying in his cell
holding a wooden cross. A door is
opened by one who summons him to
fight with wild beasts. Through this
door we catch a glimpse of the crowded
amphitheatre. Through crack in
another door ray Of sunlight falls upon
the floor and across the limbs of the
reclining Christian. Under the door we
see the sunlight, and 1 have seen people
look up and around the room to discover
If there were not some arrangement to
throw sunshine upon the picture. The
head of Il lion looking savagely into the
cell adds power to the picture and helps
US to realize what courage was needed
tor the Christian warfare in an early
day, and earnest, rejecting ones my
ask themselves how much less does it
require now? J.B.N.