The Redwood gazette., 1893-07-20

was ten years younger; he was pot
as we'll as & painter, and put poe}y
Eand humof into his sympathetie pic
lures. He delighted in peasant women
ssnd shepherdesses. washerwomen. etc.,
and landscape Backgrounds. -slsy
carolus Duran. who has brought. m
Uhl and many Of our Americas artisha
and WIS educated in Paris and Rome.
lived among monks. and began Ia
paint portraits with strength twenty
Eve years ago. He looks into charac-
ter acntely. paints accurately and
draws out effects almost like one
bringing notes from trunk. His
style is somewhat Flemish and some
what Spanish. and withal French
There are three painters of different
nations whose names are pronounced
by the public "Millay The English
painter, Millais, Of these is about six
ty-fve years old, and he ran away With
the wife of Ruslzin Though borhkihl
Southampton, he roved away, his youth
in France and the Channel islands, and
began to paint tablcaux, such as Pizar.
70. the Huguenots. Joan, Of Arc. etc
painter. took very kindly to him, and
his engravings are found throughout
the British homes everywhere He
paints portraits which are thought to
be profound, and seldom gets less than
ten thousand dollars apiece for them
He is what is known as Pre-Raphael-
ite painter. .,s
The French Millet died at the age OF
sixty-four, subsequent to the German
invasion of France. and was brought
up by Paul Delaroche. He was of nine
children and had no means. and a
priest, who was relative. brought him
up, He knew MANY cold and hupggY
day. but he had good health, and hSl
began to paint the peoples he kGew
about-the peasants, the plowmen Vsal
the shepherd. He only painted about
eighty pictures In thirty-one years,
thought much over his themes. looked
well to the sentiment. had no models.
worked from the memory and the OBJ
servation, and his pictures at his death
sold for $4,000, most of them unfin-
ished. At another sale the amount
realized was about $S8.OOO, and only
one foreigner out of twenty purchas-
ers bought anything The French
are well aware of the value of paint
ings to be treasured up and sold at long
subsequent dates.
Francis D. Millet is an American who
studies at Antwerp. took prizes and re-
ceived important orders from America,
and is not only a good artist, but q
bright newspaper correspondent.
Whistler, who is good deal talked
about for his pertinacity in exhibiting
abroad. came from Lowell. Mass. and
his father. an engineer, took him to
Russia when child, and he returned
and was educated at West Point and
removed to England at twenty-one,
studied in Paris. and began to give ex-
hibitions of his own twenty years ago
The furious critic. Ruskin, said of
Whistler that he was coxcomb who
asked two hundred guineas for finging
a pot of paint in the public's face
Whistler sued him for libel and got
one farthing damages The queen of
England. however, bought a collection
of his etchings, and the British muse
um bought others, and he has gone on,
Indifferent to attack, so that his name
at least is widely recognized.
One of the most ambitious of Ameri-
can artists is Charles Sprague Pearce,
a Boston man, who studied painting in
Paris and visited Africa. Algiers- etc.
He realizes some of the bolder artists
of the first part of our century who un-
dertook to carry American artNinto his
torical and Scriptural fields.
Ridgway Knight, who paints charm.
ing pictures of French peasant scenes,
with sentiment, went from Penn*ylva-
MIA to France twenty-one years ago.
and was one of Meissonier's pup!s
The Austrians make much here of
Hans Markart. their great rational
Epainter,>who lost his mind some years
back He was born in the soutl, Of
Austria in 1870. studied at Munic, un-
der Piloty, who painted historical oab-
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