The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-20

spects but one equal Ia the best of the
moderns. The quality lacking is the
touch, which is small and feeble, and
anything but justifes the assertion of
Kuskin that Gainsboro's touch was az
rapid as lightning. One of the men.
however, of George HIS time is even in
advance of his reputation, and that one
IS the drunken, careless, reckless George
Morland, man who, if now living,
would take the highest rank among mod
ern painters. Turning from the relics
! OF the past, we will come down to the
pictures bequeathed by Robert Vernon
70 the nation. There is an immense
room filled with Turner's pictures, most
of the red and yellow ones having been
reproduced in chromos. There is moth
ing further to say than that the chrOmos
seem To be quite rs bad as the originals.
There are three pictures of Turner's.
however, which will hand him down 70
the admiration of posterty, painted with
cool color and treated with what seems
TO be magical skill They are. "The
Burial Of Wilkie" lat sea. "Rain, Steam
ana Wind" and "Snow storm at Sea-"
All the effects which the titles of the two
last Indicate are given with most surpris-
ing force and power. should unhesi-
| tatingly select these three pictures as the
best of that or kindred subjects I'm the
| whole world. | think it is in Room No
that some OF the best pictures of the
| great English painters are TO be found
Three or four of Landseer's pictures were
sent to the American Centennial. and
with the exception Of the "Sick Monkey"
were 40 far beneath the reputation Of the
artist that il IL marvellous that aDy Eng.
lehman would have sent them over. In
this room, however, standing before pic.
lures by this painter, pictures well known
in America through engrayings, one
stands in wonder aud admiration. II
was delightful surprise. "The Caya.
lier's Hat" two Blcnheim spnnicl., J
Dignity and Impudcncc," "Thc Sleep.
Ing Bloodhound," and the "IIorsc Shoe.
ing" are four pictures treated in totally
different manners with touch bold and
mastery, together with refinement of
! execution that one looks for in vain
IN the work OF any other artist, and
| glamour OF poetry inscparablc from all
this precision Of idea and rigid purpose
that creates Il wondering, almost incrctiu-
lous admiration. There is one picture of
"a girl milking Il cow 1t might bc one
of the milky here. of Apollo. There is
another, very large picture. reprcscnt.
ing the Duke Of Wellington in citizens
clothes, Oh horse back, on the field of
Waterloo. a lady is beside him also
mounted, and peasant and his family
taking their lunch or something" This
| picture shows thnt :hc artist was as great
IN the puitriture of men as of four legged
animals, while field and sky attest his
| power rs landscape painter In fact
there ia no Englishman living that can
paint such n sky IN floats over this pic
ture of the field Of Waterloo. Lhnlsccr's
pictures have been called "dry and hard"
| think it must have been the criticism
of blind men. They are juicy, pulpy-
everything that is the opposite of dryIless
and hardness. fingered over these pic
lures until minutes grew to hours. l
cannot if ! would get away from the con.
viction that Sir Edward Landscer was
the greatest painter that ever lived Mt
any age or at any time. Maclise, the
greatest dranghtsInnn that England has
produced, is represented by the play
1ueHo iii Hamlet; grant! co:::i;;;s:::"::, L:
color gray-too much Of it. Calcott, r.
AZ, has most breezy landscape with
real sky. Etty's pictures are Charming
in color. None of these painters repre-.
sent the English school," These paint.
| ers were great in proportion, M they re.
cedcd from tho conventionalitics of Eng
lish art, and would have been euualIy
great if they had been Frcnchmen or
Belgians. "The English school," no
called, has produced no great painters.
and never will. In water color. the
English are excellent; beyond that thew
have accomplished literally nothing Of
academic excellence, nothing good in the
School"
took day to visit the Royal Acadc-
my. Seven thousand pictures were
offered, and four thousand rejected. Per-
haps the rejected ones were the best
they certainly could not have been worse
than those on the walls. a picture by
the great Millais was called Crooks and
Water" sHhgt WIS meant for rocks
looked like curled-np birch bark-whut
was meant for water could not discover.
There seems to be no color, no form, no
texture, and no atmosphere in tho Eng
lish landscape in oils. If this collection
consists of 1cc:l pictures, then must fall
back on the. precedent of Sir Joshua
Reynolds, who said, when speaking of
the "old masters" II frankly confess l
dc not understand them" The room
was literally crowded with visitors, all of
whom seemed to swarm at intervals to-
wards point where n fat hand pointed
- NN"gy ioAC hu6CE W TIC re-
freshment room." Even among pictures
the English stomach clamors for nourish.
ment.
have visited the following theaters in
London: The Criterion, Haymarket.
Gaiety, Vaudeville, Lyccum, Prince of
Wales, Princess and Adelphi, also her
Majesty's Opera in the Haymarket. The
Heymarket Theater, where Jefferson is
about closing his engagen;ent. ia hy far
the best Of the lot. They are all Il speak
of theaters, not opera-houses, and omit
Drury Lane) small, shabby, inconve.
nient, and would not be tolerated in any
town or city in America. All Londoners
who have visited America are quite
aware of the deficiencies in their own
theaters. In one respect they are in ad-
vance; they have hid their orchestra
under the stage. Every theater hus it's
bar on each floor. Ladies drink ut them
generally ale. It is n custom SO old that
It would probably excite amusement if it
were told that American ladies would be
horrihed at such o practice. The rank
and file Of the dramatic companies is not
good but among the prominent artists
are some of surprising excellence.
Mario Wilton (Afrs. Bano!uft,) the lessee
of the Prince of Wales Theater, is a
gonbrette that reminds one Of Mrs. John
Wood in her best days. Madge Robert
SON (Nfn. Kendall) think the best
aU.-,ss of the day. Her husband is
very finished and clever light comedian.
Mr.. Righton ia an excellent burlesque