Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-07-09
PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS
HOW FIFTEEN OF OUR OLD EXECUTIVES
LOOK ON CANVASS AT THE COR
CoRAN GALLERY.

The latest purchase made Dy the
Corcoran gallery are the portraits Of
fifteen of the Presidents of the United
States, beginning with Gen. Washing
ton and ending with Lincoln. They
are by Healy, and are many of them,
of course, being after earlier artists.
1t illustrates and WHITES history
this collection Of the faces OF the men
who have at different times "seryed
the country" 1t is an interesting
study 10 notice how the stately En-
plsh look fades out as one goes down
the line, and how the distinctive Amer
ican expression comes into the faces
Full wigs of snow white hair,pufied and
powdered like any blondine girl Of the
period, gives way to straight, scanty
locks of Natures own providing and
stately ruffs are superseded first by the
pillory of the black silk stock, and
then by standing or turn-down collars,
each Of which has good deal to do
with the facial expression of the
wearer.
Uniform in size, with dark back
grounds and in narrow, tarnished gilt
ranes these portraits hang in long
s,ra;cht line down one OF the side
vooms in the gallery.
The line begins with Washington.
No il does not begin with Washington,
Place aur danes. II begins with Mar
,ho washington, oafter Stuart'-the
calm mink and white, placid face in
the traditional cap and handkerchief
With which we are familiar. Then
Cen Washington, as Gen. Washington
alwavs is
Ioin Adams, with high light o.
, white paint on the forehead that rises
. ,;Le a dome. dividing the fuffs of whit
: hair that extend down either side O
,ho face-a calm, strong, dignifed face
: Jefferson, with his hair parted il
,he middle. Madison, "after Harding,
,r;,h 4 cascade of white ruflle tucked
awav % below his determined chin ant
!. Arm lower lin.
3 Monroe with whole era of good
n sooling in the dlmple in his chin. IL,
Il y ,he only one OF all .he illustriou
crowd who has a dimplc. Van Burel
8 narrowly escaped one, hut there are NJ
u dimples about Gen. jackson, VIII
IS ooaea Immediately after Adams, an,
d So1ore whom each visitor pauses an,
/. saws. aTberel don't that look jus
u Ete p tho man that he was r.
ir John Quincy Adams follows Monroe
d .,;,b s,raigbi scant hair-his own
Il and n morsel Of whisker on each chcel
:: He He and Van Buren, are the only tw
If who sbow any tendency toward
y heard The rcst have taken clea
& shsve Tvler sitting defiantly bac
10 IN his chair, with rather severe cas-
y of features Polk, an earnest, anma
is Cd face with keen, slightly lifte
a Glance Gen. TAYLOR, aaitcr Thomas
in In shoulder straps and uniform, NAL
o; ;nc n grateful blue break in the mono
ar onv Of the black broad-cloth. FIJI
e. more, calm and placid. Pierce, pal
Mt darn. .cycd, dramatic. Buchanan, fir
C. old English gentleman Lincoln,
e the dusk Of The final corner, his ia'
I'D almost in proflc-a younger one tha
DO many Of his portraits give him, b.
with that pat6os in the eyes that
artist has ever been able to portra
It's The portraits Of Harrison, Johnso
cd and Grant, which are soon TO be adde
is will complete the Presidential collie
or ton for the present. In the course