The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-17

WOhIp y FAlh SIALOE Oc liz I'LL CoA<ASSs
Paris, but continued to sketch all tho
time, still among the military cadets.
The artists tried to discourage his
father from letting him come among
them, but he took prize in 1853, when
he was twenty-three years old, and
Eugene De Lacroix, an eminent artist,
took fancy to him, and he obtained
commission to paint Garibaldi, which
he did very badly, but at twenty-five
one of his soldier pictures pleased the
French, though he had to make wood
cuts for living after he left,his fa-
theirs house, and drew for most of the
French illustrated papers Mr.. Wal
tiers, of Baltimore, and other Amerie
cans have purchased his pictures.
which are strong in their physiognomy
and gesture.
Tyron, whose pictures we see with
admiration of French pastoral scenes,
sheep, landscapes, ETC., was intended
by his parents to be a painter OF porce-
lain, and he actually went into the
porcelain factory at Sevres, which
gives such fine exhibit here, but he
preferred a wider range, and began
travelling through France and Holland
and England, painting as he went. He
is esteemed one of the most honest of
French artists, in that he does not try
to convey what nature does not ex-
press.
Diaz, who is well known in America,
and has had several sales here of paint
ings which brought high prices, is
brilliant colorist. His parents were
driven out of Spain to bordeaux by
politics, and he became an orphan and
was taken charge of by Protestant
preacher. His mother having gone to
Paris to give Spanish lessons, bug bit
him on the leg, which had to be ampu-
tated, and the cripple was put in
china shop, where he began to initiate
the pictures on the china, and the man
ufacturer of porcelain sent him up to
the studio; but he did not like his mas
ter and quarreled with him, and, pass
ing through period of long poverty,
finally executed picture which would
not bring for a long time as much
mo1sey as would pay for it's materials.
However, man came along one day
and paid three hundred dollars for it,
raising the price voluntarily two hun
dred dollars. 1t turned out to be one OF
his most famous pictures, 'sThe Gyp-
sies." He had to leave figures, how.
ever, and come to landscape before he
was fully appreciated, and he was thir-
teen years getting medal, at the age
of thirty-seven. After he got the mar
ket he painted too fast and sold too
many pictures, and seemed to be drunk
for money.
Rougereau was born in 1925, at the
old Huguenot place of La Rochelle, and
while in business house in Bordeaux
attended drawing school two hours
day. When with so little training he
took the prize over the other pupils
they meanly raised a riot. HIS uncle,
a priest at Saintonge, gave him
shelter for his easel, where no painter
had ever been, and he worked hard to
save one hundred and eighty dollars,
with which he entered Picot's study at
Paris. At twenty-five he gained the
grand prize which sent him to Rome,
and at twenty-nine he had fame. He
has decorated theaters and churches
and town halls. In 1878 he painted
the nymphs and satyrs now in Stokes
barroom, superb specimen of cold
vestal style, the nymphs being lit by
moon and sun, their flesh sparkling
like icicles, their desirableness not
human, their delicate fun melanaidish
and brattle.
The French landscape painter,
D'AubiqnE. who died in 1878. at the