Daily globe., 1879-06-02
GILBERT MUNGER.
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as an Arttst.
A recent London letter to the Hartford
Co,trnat reviews the pictures in the royal
academy, and makes the following mention
of Gilbert Munger, formerly resident of
st. Paul:
Near by, hung quite too high for anything
like Justice, is q lovely Landscape, refined,
delicate and beautifully painted, and we won
dered it was not hung down on the line. It
is q scene which is probably unfamiliar to
most Engishmen. "a Mormon City and
Watsatchs Mountains "a range OF perpetual
snow clad mountains rising from the lake.
The city of Salt Lake is shown at the base
of the mountain, and the whole range Is re-
fected in the lake. It was Satisfaction TO
hear Mlliais and Firth pronounce an en-
comium upon this picture. II was painted
by an American artist, Gilbert Munger. he
has, by the way, two other pictures IN the
academy this year, we'll hung IN the second
gallery, which is regarded as the Salon q
Honneur. Why this is 80, l cannot say.
These pictures represent two Scotch iochs,
"Loch Cornis]1,'' and "Loch Maree," and
they are very dramatic and strong in treat
ment.
Loch Cornish, in the Isle of Skye, is we'll
known to tourists from the States, and It IS
poetized in that charming work "a Summer
in Skye,' by the late Alexander Smith. 1t
is lonely, desolate region, so strange and SO
grand that it is the place most selected by
lords and earls to go with their yachts and
spend two or three months recruiting from
'soyer-culture. They take their servants
and live in rustic luxury, close to nature. 1t
is famous resort of the Duke OF Argyll and
his friends. The picture is dramatic, weird
and wonderful; it gives all the sense OF
gloom and sombreness of this strange and
lgastly region. The black, basalt cliffs rise
on each side $500 feet. It is Q mile across
the lake, and the depth of the water is
deeper than the sea. It is supposed to be
an old and extinct crater. The scene is al
most twilight, the sun is just going down
and is shining up, leaving all the lake II
4 shadow. The cold mist is rising up from
the lake and goes off in light cloud forms
that are very real. It is powerful land
scape. Loch Maree is representative O
one of the characteristic inland lakes O
!. Scotland; the mountain side slopes gradu
ally down to the lake and the foreground O
the picture is composed of the gray rocl
broken up, aud the delicate purple and rex
heather in blossom. It is an evening effect
the clearing off of storm; q rainbow ap
pears on the mountain side reaching dow
into the lake. This place has become NOR
than usually famous of late from the fact tina
, it had been the resort of the queen. A
least the queen spent ten days there tw
years ago, and since then the hotels hav
been overcrowded with her worshiphers
= The place is beautiful enough, and it mus
! be in odd contrast to other places. 1t
. here that the old hiGhlanders who spea
Gaelic are SO terribly bigoted and dishones
I The queen, on Sunday, wanted to go to
s little island in the center of the lake; nc
9 one of them would pull her over in view {
. Sabbath breaking. The queen did not simpl
4 understand the quality of Gaelic piety.
= was at the same place that gentlema
! traveller wished to cross to go to churcl
3 The regular fare to be ferried across W.
two shillings. The boat of course We
hauled up for dry Sunday. The travel'
0 foul d the boatman, and offered "thrice b
Q fee," which the canny Scot sternly ar
i piously refused, for it was the "Holy Sal
bath ye ken, mon!'' The 'smon'' then sal
ssI will give you ten shlllings and sixpence
''Ah veal" said the Scotchman, 81 will n
a brak the Sabbath for two shillin'. nor 81
shillin', but III tax ye DER for ten and sax
;: and he took his chances with the monit
II who is supposed to watch over Scotchman
8 soul! Not one of the native highanders
: shown in the picture, which is. the only La
Is that seemed to us to belong to it. 1t is o.
of the best landscapes in the room.