New-York tribune., 1876-05-20

So sang in 1914 Elizabeth Barrett in her
"Iady Geraliine's C0urlship,' and made tho name
Of Lough known this side tho water. II
was in this poem that the p0etoss, who
had herself not yet won hcr laurcls, gave then
first crowns to Tennyson and Browning. Here was
difference shown between the pocte fame and The fame
Of the sculptor The poets fame has conc all over the
world and the names of Browning and Tcruyson arc e.
familiar in America a. they are in England But tie
name OF the sculptor Loag hardly passed beyond
Tue narrow limits Of his native island. Yet be was
sculptor OF uborn ability and bis work was marked 10y
vitality IN the conception and rude grandeur
in tie execution that set it apart from tie
most Of what WAS being done in HE time.
[Ie was the son ~ small flrncr, md wac born II.
GIeenhead in Northumberland in l-0L He was set To
following the pillow. and in Dts leisure hours BIC amused
himself wifil modelling out % the clay he troi u.'h
cures of characters he had read about in Popcs Homer
and iu GibDon'- History. HAYDN tells as how gen
tleman of the nech5orLool returning from fJx-huut-
inc. saw models Ot lc-, aud arms Niug aboat IN the
garden Of Boug fathers house, now he went into The
house oud found the walls all covered "ih skcicics aG
models hung aout lie discovered The author OF these
rude aitemp;e. country boy, and taking friendly
interest IN him. had him at his house. showed
him Michael Angelica designs and Canoyas, and
thus determined his career L0agh went up l"
London and pursued ardcntly the study oil the E'gi
marbles, then recently arrived IN England In ls26 ne
exhibited at the RJyd Academy ba>-rcic'' The Dcah
IurAus' ana the HCi year nltGt lis iirt iHih h"'i
the public mind uy TIE satuc oI Milo" Ihi' excited so
much interest tlat 10y t,c fundamentally o. Haydon
Cockere and Others separate exhibition of 1t was NJ
RANGED aud the result tat the young artist received
n commission from the DuSc a. Wellington 70. The MILO
and for statue of Samson" {, b' put into marble. For
eleven yeas from lS37-lss, Lo1gh did not cxhbt at the
Academy. The last sOur of tins period e spent h
Rome, and executed many commissions given him by
nob.encn. Iii. marriage with AdIy, second daughter
Of the Row Henry North, domestic chaplain Ia The Duke
OF Kent no doubt had mach 10 do with his advancement
Since ls5s hc Was until lately regular exhibitor nj ,he
Academy and he has executed several important pniic
statues, az well private commissions. In Sir Mat
hew Ridley's house. in Carlton Terrace statues By
him ol nearly all sb1lspeares princp characters. rs
also some colossal figures from Milton There was no
little stir created IN artistic circles when the com
mission 10 execute the lions for the decoration OF tho
cdestal Of the Nelson Monument in rrafalgarsquarc
which had been gwen Lodg by the Government, was
withdrawn and given 10 Landseer. great injustice
was committed, anl nothing Whatever gained by the
change. ., o..,
plaster cast Of group by Lou,h, The Contest be
tween the CcnianIs aud the LapithH is III the p0
sion OF the Philadelphia Academy OF fiue Arts ana oc
cucs an important position ~ the new bWiing III mas
moi done much to give LDugh fame la this country.