The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-11-15
Art and Artists.

Mr.. Poynters great Academy picture, "Ata-
lanta's Race" has at length been successfully
put up in the drawing-room of Wortley Hall in
England. The artist expects soon to complete
tor the same place another work, entitled "St
George and the Dragon"
The French Government has bought Bou-
guereau's 'tLa Vierge Consolatrice," Jules
Breton's "La Glaneuse," portrait of Emile
Augier by e. Dubufe, and landscape BY
Belly. These works will be placed at once IN
the Luxembourg.
Cromwell, Milton and Andrew MARVEL are
introduced into Maddox Browns latest work,
which the Academy ranks "amid the finest art
of our time.'' The scene is in Millions West
minister house. Cromwell is IN armor, and be-
strides an angle of table; Grape is on his
arm as token of mourning for the massacred
Waldenses; he casts vivid, eager look toward
Milton and holds IN bis hands scrap of paper
which is supposed to bear the points of the pro-
test he sent the king of France in the spring
OF 1868 against the barbarity of the duke Of
Savoy. Milton is composing and debating the
famous dispatch, his blind eyes, still beautiful,
and his rapt severity OF countenance fitting the
ideal of the poet; and NJ .rvell, with face full
OF sardonic keenness, waits for the word to
continue his work of scribe
Several fiue pictures, mostly of the French
citizens, in the Metropolitan museum of art in
New York. Among them is a landscape on the
Seine by Jules Dupre, specimen of Corot's
early style, two autumn pictures by Rousseau,
two Troyons, Daubigny, Decamps. an inte-
rior by Baron Ley, a poor portrait by Reynolds
and fine one of Mrs. Fitzherbert George ". q
discarded wife) by Romney. One Of the Troy
ons-a large landscape with castle, his favorite
theme-is called by writer in the World,
perhaps the most delicately refined, as we'll as
LARGE Troyon that has ever been on exhibition
here" This writer cannot praise Rousseau
without depreciating Jervis McEutee, whose
work be speaks of as "the American landscape,
faithful, precise, uninteresting, true to nature
even only in the eyes of those who see no
more in the autumn day than Mr.. McEntee
does"
There has been on exhibition at Goupl's lin
Paris) for some time past, landscape by Gus
tave Dora which has caused an immense sensa-
tion, and is universally considered one of the
most wonderful works of that gifted artist. 1t
is bold cliff, standing rugged yet green in the
foreground, while at back the sea aud sky ex-
tend into mmeasurabe space. The white surf
rolls 10, filling the picture with extraordinary
reality-producing q marked effect even upon
the least cultivated mind. The painting is
large and seems immense, it so fills the eye.
In color it is simply perfect and free from the
eccentricities which have usually marfed Dore's
efforts as a painter. OF course the drawing is
in his usual mastery style. 1t were worth
trip across the Atlantic to see it alone.-Letter
in Neeo York World.
w. w. Story is not exactly ''modern M.
Angelo" as an interviewing Boston reporter
calls him. for his versatility, though considera-
BILE, is not accompanied by pre-smiuent ability
outside of sculpture. As poet. he achieves
the remarkable, though not the great; as law
yer he was and probably would have continued
ordinary; as a painter, he showed simply fair
capacity. But he is undoubtedly our foremost
sculptor and holds the first rank among our
modern masters. He has resided in Rome for
some twenty-five years, and his eldest son, now
twenty-five, who accompanies him on his pres
ent visit to this country, is Roman by birth,
and has not been to America before. His
daughter is married ia Florence, his other
child, son, is at Oxford university, and Mrs.
Story is 10 Rome. Mr.. Story's works are most
ly in Europe, few having been bought by his
cOuntrymen, and when he has anything TO
print he prints it in England, whether ii is
book or magazine article,-with rare excep-
uons, such as his recent poem on Motley in the
Atlantic. Yet. despite this evidence t is said
that Mr.. Story is not denationazed. His visit
here is the first for a dozen years, and be re-
turns early in December, so finish his statue of
Clytemnestra for Count Palffg of Paris. He
finds himself astopished by the vast growth
of New York and Boston, and admires their
recent architecture, pr3nouncing Boston one of
the most beautiful cities of the world. Amer
lcan art at home and abroad he speaks hope
fnlly Of and intends to prepare lecture about it.
The history of the manner in which Mr..
James Lennox of New York secured his first
picture by Tanner for his gallery of paintings is
related in Leslie's Autobiography and repeated
in Mr., Thornbury's life Of the celebrated artist.
SIT fell to my lot" writes Mr.. Leslie, ''to Sc
lect the first OF his pictures that went to Amer
lea. Mr.. james Lsnnox of New York, who
knew his pictures only b. eDgravngs, wished
very much to possess one, and wrote me to
that effect. replied that his rooms were full
of unsold works and L had no doubt he would
part with one. Mr. Lennox expressed his
willingness to give $500, and left the choice to
me. l called on Turner, and asked If he would
let picture go to America No; they won't
come up to the scratch l knew what he
meant for another American had offered him
a low price for the 'remeraire.' | told him a
FREUD of mine would give $500 for any thing he
would part with. His couuIenance frightened
and he said at once, He may have that, or
that, or that-pointiDg 10 three not small pie-
lures chose a Sunset View OF Static, Whlch
had admired more than most OF his pictures,
from the time when il was trst exnlpited. IL
was in an old frame, but Turner would have
very handsome new one made for it. When it