Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
A Company Of Philadelphia Artists
Visit Some Of the Famous Pic
tlre Galleries Of New
York City,
Amsng which are the August BEL
mont, Schaas, and the Metro
pOIitan Collections.
An American Professors Descrip.
ton OfGrsat Pictures by Great
Masters, Etc., Etc.
Special Correspondence 0fae Reglter.
ACADEMY OF FIHa ARTS,
PHLApELPgfA January 6. IS.

AAO"n eAAs bSAOA0 bOAuS O'Vh
gathered more points of interest to the pub
lie. As it is / can only give yea what par
6culars we remember, together with our
general views on the subject.
But as none Of orr party belong to that
modest portion OF the public who do not
claim to Re judges of pictures, l can proba-
bly, be able to give you and your readers
more than enough.
There are in New York many fine private
galleries, such as Yanderbilts, Belmonts,
Miss Catherine Wolfs's, Mrs. A. T. Stewards,
and Others. None Of thesegslleries are open
to the public, although TO some Of them
cards of admission can be obtained On ap-
picstiou.
The picture dealers, Schsus, GOupil,
Avery, and others, generally have some fine
work in their collections. There are also
the fine permanent collection of the Metro
politan Museum, in Central Park, and the
| pictures of the Lennox Library. And as
there is generNlly Que or more Of the peri
I odical exhibitions running, u need not
suffer for lack OF pictures tOrsee.
The first place we visited was SchaHs'
/ Gallery, where there is on exhibition a pic
ture by William Dannat, an American.
Ii is one Of the strongest and best painted
American pictures i have seen, and will
hold its own, in technical qualities, among
the best European pictures.
Tha -,oR,ra ubioh a q larya ono aknwS
I four life size figures singing or playing on
instruments, and is called "a Quartette."
The figures are Spanish, evidently Of the
bull lighting class. One Is
Avery Pretty Woman,
but Of Just the character to suit the slbjec..
These figures are in easy and natural &C
tien, showing the painter to be a thorough
draughtsman. Nothing will show more
quickly whether the painter is q good
| draughtsman or merely a careful copyist of
| the light and shade and line of his model,
\ than 10 put 8 figure in sudden movement.
The figures are lighted from above in
/ such a way as to throw two Of them, in the
foreground, into shade, out this difficult
lighting has been handled thoroughly well.
Every object in the picture takes its place
as q part without destroying the unity OF the
! effect.
Il is good to see such work from an
American. For American art, although
progressive, is still behind the art Of Europe
and rarely finds a place in the finest collec'
tons.
Schaus had many other pictures, but none
of them appealed strongly to US,
We next went 10 August Belmonts Gal
lery.
This is one of those collections which,
although fine, has few remarkable pictures.
Gerome's Slave Market" is here. After
seeing a lot of modern slsp-dashy impress
sionism, it is q relief to see such thorough
p~ainstakiug knowledge as is shown in
/ Gerome's work. 1t takes more than mere
care to carry a picture to such finish with
out destroying the broad strength Of it.
The impressionist is generally a mar who
has found this out.
Here there is also a 6ue landscape BY
Rosseau, whose particular merit, to me, Is
au absence of manner n work. That is, he
does not paint all c~loudy-day landscapes
and all sunlit landscapes alike. But his
pictures vary from each other, in effect, as
nature hafloS rom Day 10 baDs
This shows an appreciation and an ability
10 represent the big effect of a scene, which
not only shows you a group OF objects, but
the kind OF a light they are in, the state Of
the atmosphere, and all the other qualities
ofthe scene and day. This cannot be said
Of many other landscape painters. even good
pres. Corot is q great example.
Daubigny is also represented by q line
example Of his landscape work. His LAID
-seapes resemble each other somewhat in
manner, but this can be forgiven in such
good work.
This particular picture is q cloudy sun
set, and is painted in that way which sends
YOU back to enjoy its effect, rather than
draws you up to study its details, as one Of
William 7. Richards landscapes would do.
Richards pictures will allow the eve to
come close and wander over the surface of
the canvas without being able to light on
any spot which does not look like some part
o fnsture; yet the effect is not so powerful
as in work like Daubigny's.
In this collection is a study, by Muukscsy,
Of a life size head of Christ, for his famous
picture of Christ Before Plate" 1t did
not impress Us as having any merit,
although we are all admirers of this painter.
Nunkscsy's pictures are not numerous
and are very valuable. They will become
rapidly more so now, as he may never paint
any more, being, | understand, confined in
8 mad house.
A man, with no more training than Nun
kacsy has had, must have his mind on q
terrible strain to overcome the difficulties in
painting pictures of such strong dramatic
power as most of his works show. He is
naturally
One of the Greatest Painters.
Nothing else in the gallery has left q for
chile impression on US.
The next place visited was the Metropoli-
tan Museum, where there is now on exhibit.
ton a muchtslked Of collection of pictures
BY George +. Watts, an English r. 4.
Part of this collection are portraits and
part are sllegorical subjects. The work
on the allegorical subjects is of an entirely
different character from that on the por-
traits. The portraits have an additional in
terest in being pictures Of prominent Eng.
fish men and women, such as Carlyle, Ten
nyson, John Stuart Mil, L. Burne Jones,
Cardinal Manning, Sir Frederick Leighton,
Mathew Arnold, Lady Fi~tzmugwump aud
the Duke of Toodlewhseker.
These portraits would still be interesting
even if the sitters we're unknown, which is
more than can be said of the ordinary run Of
portraits even by good men.
The catalogue in speaking Of Watts says:
ain painting portraits he has worked quite
as much from a mental vision created BY the
impression which the nature, character and
career Of his sitter have produced on his
own mind so as from the physical aspect
before him. He endeaVors to give US the
essential, i~ndiyidualizing characteristics.
the very nature Of the man, his aspect as
it is influenced by his mind, character aud
employment, be he poet artist, musician,
statesman, ecelesiastic or soldier. He seeks
to convey that certain atmosphere
which eHngS mora or less round all in