Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-21


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 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, a 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
money as would pay for its materials.
However. a man came along one day
and paid three hundred dollars for it,
raising the price voluntarily two hun
drcd dollars. IL turned out to be one of
his most famous pictures. The Gyp-
sizes" 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.
Bougereau was born in 1925, at the
old HuguenOt place of La Rochelle, and
while in business house in Bordeaux
attended drawing school two hours a
day. When with so little training he
took the prize over the other pupils
they meanly raised . riot. His uncle,
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, a superb specimen Of cold
vestal style. the nymphs being lit by
moon and sun, their flesh sparkling
like icicies, their desirabieness not
human. their delicate fun mermaidish
and bratte.
The French landscape painter.
D'Aubigny, who died in 1878, at the
age of sixtv-seven. was a sketcher and
massive formulator of the effects of
light and shade on landscape He de-
lighted in evening scenes
Jules Breton, even better known,
was ten year" younger: he was poet
as well as painter. and put poetry
and humor into his sympathetic pic
lures He delighted in peasant women
and shepherdesses. washerwomen. etc.
and landscape backgrounds
Carolus Duran. who has brought up
T-hl and many of our American artists
and was educated in Paris and Rome
lived among monks, and began to
paint portraits with strength twerty
five years ago He looks into charac
ter acutely, 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 "Millav " The English
painter. Millais, of these. is about six
ty-five years old. and he ran away with
the wife of Ruskin Though born IN
Southampton. he roved away his youth
in France and the Channel Islands. and
began to paint tableanx, such as Pizar
no. the fIuguenots, Joan of Are. etc
The English, on the lookout for great
painter. took very kindly to him. and
his enyravings 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
iic painter
The French Millet died at the age OF
siTty-four. subsequent to the Gerna n
invasion of France. and was brought
mp by Paul Dclaroche He wasof nine
children aud had no means. and a
priest. who was relative. brought him
up He knew many a cold and hungry
| day. but he had good health. and he
began to paint the people he knew
about-the peasants. the pIowmen and
the shepherd He only painted about
eighty pictures in thirty-one years.
thor gat much over his themes. looked
well to the sentiment. had no models,
worked from tho ;-sernory and the OBJ
scrvation. and his pictures at his death
sold for $4,000. most of them unfn-
ished- At another sale the amount
realized was about $4,000. and only
one foreigner out Of twenty purchas-
ers bought anything The French
are well aware OF the vaiue Of paint
ings to be treasured up and sold at long
| subsequent dates
Francis D. Milletis m American. who