New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-01

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built COTTAGE the strange saffron hue IN the faces OF
the watchers, and the suggestion OF gray dawn ana
cool mountain air, all harmonic with the pathos 10
complete picture OF intense and concentrated
feeling
The picture destined for the Academy tho year
alter was again Bavarian and religious IN snDlect
put IL portrayed gaYer incident OF peasant lle'
10 was named Der Bittgang." or " The Prayer
walk" and showed procession OF peasants 10
scendIng hill and suppiicating blessing on tho
coming harvest. his again gave proof OF Mr. Her
k0mers rich gifts IN fine feeling and color, Inc
same year an excellent portrait OF Mrs. Henry
Mason was also on the walls of burlington House.
Inc Royal Academy Exhibition Of 1873 contained
only three works by Mr.. lerkOmeT but one OF them,
"Eyentlde" was leading feature of the ex1ibi-
non ana created almost as great furore "a his GA
CheIcSea fehsiohers had previously DONE, Inc
scene Eventide in the Westminster Union" is
finely conceived grOnp of aged paupor women at tea
IN the long. bare room of the workhouse. some are
sitting costly and comfortably slipping their tea
others are sewing OF reading. and sense
of quiet happiness peryades them all.
The work is attractive on account OF us sympa-
thetic truth and its exquisite execution lndivld-
uality of character is portrayed while the general
type Is maintained, and every figure must nave Deeii
cOnscientlOusly studied from the life with care ana
accuracy The soft feeble and unknit forms OF Ola
age are indeed as powerfully exDr 'ssed as the hrln
Young lines of more youthful figures in other works.
The two other pictures in the Academy OF thar year
were a study OF "A Welsh Woman " and SOuYe-
mir de Rembrandt" viii st III the Grosyenor Gallery
of the same season Mr.. HerkOmer exhibited f2ur
striking heads, among them being portrait OF ms
friend Richard Wagner, the musician 10 the faflS
international Exhibition he contributed four PIC
tures-two oil paintings. The Last Muster" ana
AFTER The Toll of the Day." and two water colors.
"phe Poachors Fate !" and The Woodcutter." with
the result that his Chelsea Pensioners, painted at
the age of fve-and-twenty, now took the European
critics by Storm and gained him the greatest DIS
tnctlOn that Europe could DestOW upon arc-lh,
award of Grand Medal Of Honor IN the Section OF
Fine Arts. ~
a dangerous Illness interfered with bis exhibition
works for the following year, and nc was !. pre-
scented bv only one contribution at the Academy,
Rata Ina Al
color drawing, almost as solid IN texture As GUS
OF Bavaran peasants i'll shed, ehtiIiGd Lhe'
Light and MeOdy,' at the GrOsyenOr Gallery. IL
was now the turn of the English Academlclans 70
acknowledge the merits upon which tue critics OIL
all Europe had set their mark, ana AT me Mex
meeting OF the Council, when Mr.. Alma Iadeina
was elected a Royal AcademlcIan, Mr.. Herkomer
became III Associate.
The following year Mr. Herkomer contributed
seven pictures the Burlington House Exemption,
Gods shrine" and Grandfathers Pet" being
perh8D, tine best remembered. though not deserving
more notice than Two sides ol QIestoh' WmOn
was 0I .lYid color, iuu oil SPIRIT ana acilVn @nu
much fore. Of effect; ana group fhttlSH ny
Children which charming and full OF ne ana
buliiaucy. Ills principal production ID iaSl yedI
exhibition was his me nOitble WORK Missing d
Scene ag the Portsmouth DoCAyard cafes alteI "
Loss of the Elrydirs" Every figure appeals 10 tue
sympathies: the gri who Is gently leading hef puf
bind grndDother way ron the ron Pos. Sos 80
which her thOughticss little biOlhef hlliIt0a we
elder IN search OF toy the tal sailor ~ ioCG III
over ms shoulder at tno sopo.n~ ~ ~
man, who, quite broken down, leau' on
fhe breast OF his neighbOr unheedlng the
consolatiJus OF his friends; ana the .OuSn
fisherman who speaks gently TO the qaZeu tuu
heartbroken little boy. The subject mas Deeh CHAR
acterlzed as sensational but 1t 49, nevertheless,
faithful representation Of srrIng Helle Va avl
Info, and has stth fuI tlor ADVANCED hil' hoiA"0i
popularity. ,,,. %
the Academy tins season Hohc"di,u' tnIoo
portralts and an engraving of Nr. Miialss portrait
ef the Earl OF Beac0nsncld Foremost amongst
these boih AS a WORK 81 art and popular picture,
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war correspuudc 1. The likeness Is adInllapie cor
rect and n4ehke to the mlnuteSi DETAIL anu mas
ralned the ARTIST considerable reputation as ialt-
ful portrait painter. MI HefkOleI hau PLoN iouo,J
valnted portraits OF several welI-AhOWh puohc mo;
and amongst them Alfred JeHnySOn, but none hau
nrouccd 80 great an impression as tnat ol ME- Achl-
bald Forbes. Since TINS was eAhIOltcd MI iieI-
komer ni, eAecuteu equally SIlAlng pOfIdltsO Vi IlCl
JoacnIm wEO, viOhn III hand looks on the POM oI
beginning one OF his ch'rlhihg SoIos Ilo'l iia'i
klrnter the celebrated W a9nrf ConuIlCtoI 4OunS
ENGLISH musician and his VIE ; Earn DucIc, MIS-
Parker Air. Slaclvtr, OF Sc AN Navigation Lthe'
and his wife, ana Sir Richard ross, late Home SEC
Tctary under the Conservative Government, INC
latter being "a commission from MI w II omttn' "
uortraIt OF Marquis OF Salisbury ana otneI CHI
nput conservatives III a gallery 10 De opened hcAU
year such fame. indeed, has Mr HerAOHcr recently
acquired DUrtaIt palmer mat besides IneSe poI-
TRAITS already executed he has commissions IOr
many more which await his return from America,
and winch for the tlme VIII prevent MN from
uanting any great SUBJECT pictures though, nap
my L. Is nOl has intention to discard the I1ghcr arr
In ne futare. ils rapldty III producing pOr rant
i marvellous. For the portrait OF Herr joachim
IN Inch ne taxes with the otnefs 10 AnellcD lie Aad
Only I'VE slttings OF two hours each.
For a time M ilcrkOmcr mas Dten entirely Occu-
pied with participating, WORKING on no large
niciurcs ana little AT engraving IN when Ne also
rNce!s. In the earlier pOruOn OI the present ear,
however he took up the ait OF etcnns Oh ptlIi-
clui of ms own intending III the III ure 10 Ne us
own enurayer llls portrait OF the Earl OF DedcOhS
field i, a specimen OF the process ana beSldes that
Inc mas engraved "EyentlIe" and few other OF
his own WORKS. .., A.
I'm a.t,iitlou TO the hOnorS already mentioned Mr.
Uerkomcr enjoys the distinction OF being an mono
r1ry member oi the Imperial Academy OF vienna. Il
neIuber OF the Institutes "a y ater-C O0r PAINTERS
at Brussels and Liverpool OF the Royal society Oh
Nat,r-t DIOR Painters at the HAGUE anu VI INC
uoch,uitung" OF Frankfort On-lhe- Jlaln
Ii Was perhaps the numerous questions upon
which his auYicc was asked O4 sludchts tual IrsI
a1vukputd l ms mind the Iuca OF the Art SCh0J al
RusueV his school, which VIII be opened lii OctO-
h,r $50 uuuer Alr. HeTkOmcTS SupclhtchutnCe
i,rutlr,iV oi MS own planning, ana tu0uBh shch
piffed worker himself ne Is prominently endowed
ann the genius ior teaching Ills own giea'esl
characteristic Is his power 10 overcome oDs'dcieS
and he Is always wiling 10 show OVhe!s the Lest
Wv NJ far rs 1t Is III ms power 10 do 50. Ii Las been
sid of INN that every step ne has taken upWdIu
IN his art has been The reward OF concentrated
energy and determination, ana he mas rcdched MS
present success by me most unialiins perseverance,
courage and bclIef III himself ana his own powers
file throws himself heart and soul INTO whatever lie
undertakes working AT IL consclentlOusly, earnestly
and ZealOuSly.
For where he hxt his heart he set his hand
10 do tie thing nc wild and bore 1t tAfo"