New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-26

when vcasquez and his other spanards have Zone all
they can him in this formative part Of his career
much mistaken If he do not produce INDEPENDENT
work o. a high order.
This want OF feeling for color amarked Characteristic
o. the school. thoge vino have the most ~ T
Mr Duvencck Mr.. Low, Mt Wyatt Eaton, Mr. Porter
and Miss Lea not being COi0rists in the acccpcd meaning
Of the term Miss Anna N. Lea has, perhaps. rs much
feeling for color any Of the group, but thc picture
she sends 10 this exhibition do not do her justice n tbs
respect has done such excellent work. ~ a "h'
ner pictures at Philadelphia VIII admit thar one j.
TO very unsatisfactory production as her
Portrait Of Gen. DIX. she should never have undertaken
q task So far beyond her powers Her 'Por'Fdi. no.
2G6-North Room-,oes her more Justice ana urho'd-
the promise ~ her Phiadrpli1 pfcrts. sister artist
Miss Maria r. Oakley, greatly dsappont- MS tais year
she started on CALAMITY ia the race we were sul" "e
should hear Of her VA the time came .or nzts Hui 10
seems she, too must steer for France, and
once there. what so natural as that Couture
should mark her for his OWL and one can only 1r glad
She stayed no longer since the Little Roman NO 4''
south Room, is what bias Of her staying 10 al.
However. let us believe that arelI talent such rs rms
ly aid At first give clear evidence Of is on resting
little inst now. sure are that 10 she would give her
SET mp mrc-eryed'y and euerssteauy 70 n 'dI, She
would make mark M world least, second to none
m certain qualities Couture ami az his bell the
.rslp- If good many Americans he has done us much
owed him too great grudge II be had warped ara
thwarted this mdy's talent utterly as he las the
talent OF many another.
sim another lady, Mrs. :. " Whitman, has disun-
uished herself from the crowd but her talent again r
shown le, 10y what she has sent % This Exhibition Cham
by what OF may De- seen elsewhere. ticr Head or
ChoirBoy" is strong but the strength is plainly hor-
rowed. She has been taught 10 look 70 human beings in
this way, and 10 ia pity tor she must at one time have
capable still may Doe capable ~ o0n- nt -rn
with her eye. and telling her truth aDlu them
WIKI her power OF drawing and ~ using pant, why W I'D
she not try 20 be herself for and not another n
the presence Of her m0dell We have some deco
rauyc work done by Mrs. whitman that would De- very
difficult 20 excel, try whore one might These panels
VERY different, al WAYS from the ordinary Decorative
Panels of the fashionable furniture shops showed
power really 10 these days TO combine decorative
effects with good painting They are valuable for the
painting 10 them they for the part they play u tc
upholstery Of the rooms they age placed in They
give much higher notion OF This adys powers than
can Dee had from her Choir Boy" though that could no,
have nccn done by common hand.
For the present. word Do conclusion about lir Benz.
g. Portcrs pictures, which give cheerful an aspect N
their corner OF he room, and almost make MS forget '
Pace and Mr.. Bcr,ta't. Two Of these piaturns-tAe
PORTRAIT of Lady" ana Love took up the Glass OF
Time were 10 the Philadelphia Exhibition. where they
made tle artists name pleasantly known 10 large pub
joe. They pleased by their yueat dIss. nv their free
dom from the conventionates of tine studios, an JOS
their m.a-cd simplicity and stutingues-. 50 far as
painting goes they not very learned, bat then they
have the mcuof not sugg sting any else method o'
manner; We are 10 conclude that the artist working n
dcpeudcutly and striving solve the problem for himself
lu each picture 90 to me, the subordinate figure
d.. better than the principal. IN the PORTRAIT the Pug
g.. better than his mistress 10 The ilourgiass' th'
little Iave is better than the Lady. But Nj Porter
must expect to suffer the penalty that follows ovc-bo0
ncs- Tie has attempted two difficult subj cts, and
hc - perhaps more fortunate than might have been eS
uccted in having succeeded we'll one OF his difficult
ties seems t0 Dee tendency o. hpavluess n MS forms
and want OF animation ia his ia"e. This Is less seen
fro OBJ. extremely interesting Portrait of 3 Lady
which j.. well alive than in the Lady Of the Hour
glass;" her indifference to what Is going on can n rlE
b a owed To pass for absorption hi her meditation De-
rdrly there - a want Of iu This dlure, and DO -
emphasized by the Ec1vinpss Of The accessories. tine
velvet ~ her robe and the weight of her rose wreath
AMI the stately chair she sits But there is grace il
the conception and od-time difectuess in the een-
of this picture that largely atone for 30, few >h'it-
comnc- Besides On ys when artists seem 70 have lost
tie tradition ~ portrait, that destined 20 belong to
the world d. picture, when they have served their tuin
as mere soucs-es we should Dee grateful % amy artist
Who like 1lr Porter hl, the good VIII 20 brin- back ihr
old time H. has done ' real service in the al
r-rnur even had t been ar less successful than Il is
Aeic- l0rk. Nay =. 1877. Z. &C.