Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-19


death This also is a good subjec
for a monument Then, there il
a statue out here of La Sale tn,
Noyageur. who discovered the rout,
from Niagara Falls through Chicago u
Texas | think. also. that a copy of tbs
Lief Ericsson statue in Boston stand
here. The good Old man who deiivere,
the address at the raising of tina
statue and became the chief antiquarl
concerning the NorthIHen in America
Prof Horsfori, talked with at th'
Virginia hotel. Chicago, when the far
was opened in October last. III
showed me his medals from the kin1
# Denmark for having located III,
spot on Charles river. Massachusetts
where Ericsson built his town. did
not know that Mr.. Horsford was desc
until saw it in a little guide book de
scribing the Rahhla convent. and ht
lied last spring. The statue OF Lin
coln. by st. Gauiens, in Chicago, j:
generally regarded as the most origin
al and effective monument extant oi
that great man. Nbt far from i, is a very
imposing equestrian statue of Grant
overlooking the lake, one of tn,
largest statue. in this country. Or
the front Of the same lake some
four miles distant, is the statue ot
stephen A. Douglas. on the summit oi
4 high monument. Between the two
is the recently erected statue Of GO
lurnbus The statue Of the Republic
will also. understand. be the model
for numerous scuiptural creations Il
come. In another part of the town is
a statue Of Columbus when he was a
student at the University of Pavia.
The Germans have erected statue Of
one of their home poets in park in
Chicago. statues of several henefac-
tors of the town are to he found here
and there. | recite these works To
show that the spit of statnary has
gore far west
While looking through the picture
galleries it seemed to me that the
great body Of the Americans wanted
some key to the successful painter
who had made their r7ark. | passed
along with pair of foreign artists and
picked up these points about some OF
tho men we read Of:
Laurence Alma Tadcma was born in
old Trieslsnd. Hol and, in 1886. fifty
seven years Z F.; T. as pupil of Baron
Lecys at Antwerp, and from youth
busted himself with Roman and Egyp-
tian antiquities. things much affected
by the English, who liken themselves
to the Romans and from Shakespeare
have robust models of Roman scenes.
A London and Roman mob are q
good deal alike. He married an Eng
lish painter. Rembrandt was not more
familiarly daring than this Dutchman
with so-called sacred and antique
scenes: but Rembrandt had the humoT
of BacchuS, the concentration of Nni'
can: Tadema seems to be a scene set
ter and painter. his meritorious work
presently TO be fauled apart, the yes
lures and silver gods, harps and dis
taffs 10 60 presently to the property
room. His wealth Of particulars seems
like shop of antiques, the keepe'
whersof has no settled craft al
line Modern art thus surfeits ~-
often with its ease of classic
alisrn. like Sehlieman. the money
maker. digging MP agamemnon and his
finger rings and lamps Bartholdi was
pupil Of AIRY Sche fer. the Flemish
Frenchman. who put old gold into
painting and hazed the tablcaux of his
tory till they took the blue hue Of tbs
ghosts atmosphere on tho sky-lines ot
Flsinorc Bartholdi has been exhibit
ing since is52-forsy-oue years The
instructive seizure of the French or
good themes is high department o'
their art They are never in want nf :
subject. be it still or theatrical Bar
tholdi has made the Gallic harhariar
who resisted Cpsar. NercingctoriX
live again, has revived old Lafayette
who is not popular in France because
he did not force the enemy's center
fire two hundred cannons. dismiss az
ambassador. divorce his wife and i1ic'
the stage manager down the eTnpir'
stairs. Now and then French artis
like Handry declines commissions m
less tn paint some grand opera hou,-
ceiling with puissant or atmosphere
nudcs Bonnet came from Barunne
horn sixty years aro. and studied n
Madrid under Madrazo, and was sen
TO Italy bv friends
Frederick A. RridEcnan was born u
Alabama, 1897. stntsied hank-note en-
craving. went 20 the Hronklyn ar
schools. and at nineteen became pup
Of GeroTue, who was twenty-thr"
wears his senior. GcrcTle entered t)c
laroche's studio in IS9i These t's
artists will be so7r,e centuries heir
displaced. and there is reseruhlarc
in their methods. creroHie secr7s tn
Euphorian son of peIaroche Faust
He took the wife Of Stevens as h
would borrow a picture frame, or Ma
hornet take AVA his friends wift
Vaeslsr Brozik. a bohemian. was hor
where Wallenstein revolted a~airs
the empire He studied at Prague an
with Piloty. and threw himself into III
Hussite and old bohemian themes II
is the revolutionary. painter of EEroP'
what David was to the French rcv'
luton. the counterpart in Austrian
Bohemia Of Munksczy in An
trian-ITungary. Since lsTs Brozik h7
been exhibiting W. r. De Haas. hor
1880. and NJ. F. Fl. De Haas. is3e. wer
both Rotterdammers who settled
New York and painted America
themes. showing the transmutable (
rather genuine character of Dutch ar
Edward Dubufe is the son of Iharis
Marie Dubufe, q noted portrait painte
w,lo died in 1864: the son was born
/, 1916, and blended lessons from h
father and Dclaroche, and began
| show in ls3a. and made popular po
traits Mariana Fortuny came fro
near Barcelona, Spain, born 1888, ar
was on Prim's stan in Morocco. I
married Madraxn, the Spanish con
painters daughter. and between Rom
Granada and Morocco painted lii
Rubens in his day Of wealth,
master ns the novelist's theme