Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09
OlBITU AIRY.
10 Late Mrs. DIR. SWEET, of Highgate.


The funeral services of the late Mrs
SWEET, wife of Rev. DR.. j. SWEET, rector o
st. Johns church and Champlain Hall
HiIhgate, were held at that place on las
Wednesday morning, and also at LAX
View cemetery in this city, where the in
terment took place, Wednesday afternoon
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Bssel conducted thu
services, the reverend clergy officiating
as pall-bearers There were present o
the clergy, besides the bishop, the Rev
DR.. Bailey of Sheldon the Rev. Thos. Bur
CESS of ST. Adams. the Rev. Fl. +. Hill o.
| Montpelier, the Rev. DIR. Bliss, and the
| Rev MesSrs. Hopkins, Graves and GuyOr
of Burlington. A large number of friends
came with the remains and the afflicted
| husband and family, from Highgate and
other towns. and joining friends here, pro
| Ceeded to the cemetery
! The decease of Mrs. SWEET, which occur
red ut her home on the Goth ult, is a loss
of the deepest kind to all who knew her.
In the several spheres of life to which she
was called of daughter, wife, mother,
mntron in school and parish, of friend and
neighbor, she eXcelled in her own sweet
and efficient way and in Christian graceS
she was of the highest aud rarest type of
womanhood.
The Rev. Dr. SWEET was, at one time, a
theological professor in the Vermont
Episcopal institute, where he resided with
his accomplished family. They have the
sincere sympathy of this community and
of their many friends elsewhere.
Death of william Page, the Artist.
Mr.. William Page, the well-known
painter, and formerly president of the Ma
tiOnal Academy of design, died last We'd
nesday ut his home near Tottenville, 5. |.
MIR. Page was born in Albany, n. Y, in
1911. In his early life he studied both law
and theology, but his artistic tastes were
too strong to permit him. ITO be anything
but Il painter. He became very famous as
portrait painter in Boston and New York,
and won fame by various historical and
classical compositions. In 1917 he went to
Europe, residing eleven years in Florence
and Rome, returning to New York in the
autumn of 1860. In Italy he made the ac-
quaintance of Mrs Hitchcock, widow of
Mr.. ). w. Hitchcock formerly of Burling-
ton, and daughter of the late Henry
Stevens, the antiquarian of Vermont, and
married her, having been divorced from a
previous wife, who abandoned him for an
Italian count.
During his residence in Italy he painted
the portrait of many distinguished Ameri-
cans and Englishmen and produced his
TWO NenuSeS, MS Moses and Aaron on
Mount Horeb." the Flight into Egypt"
the Infant Bacchus" and other works,
among which were "a "Holy Family" now
in the Boston athen@um, the "Wife's
Last Visit to her Condemned Husband y
and the Infancy of Henri "" His
copies of Titan, whose method
of painting he professed to have
disc Jvered, were 50 remarkably like
the originals that one of them was stop
ped by the authorities of Florence under
the belief that it was the original paint
ing. After his return to this country, he
delivered II series of lectures on art, and
published Il Manual of Measuring the
Human Body" based upon models of the
antique.
He was occupied for several years in
producing Il bust of Shakespeare from
photographs of Il supposed mask of the
poet taken after his death and now pre-
served in Germany. In 1874 he made a
visit to Germany to study this mask.
From the bust he has painted many por-
traits of Shakespeare. The last work, Il
full length, representing Farragut at the
battle of Mobile, was purchased by com
mittee in 1871, and was presented to the
Emperor of Russia. a portrait of Christ,
painted and exhibited in 1870, attracted
great attention and excited much con-
troversy. His funeral will take place on
Sunday from the home of his widow, who
survives him, on Staten Island.