Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-09

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and paid thrss hunApsA Aa11Ass fos IL
r.isIng NJ psiss voluntnsuy two hun
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his most famous p6etus~s. IL 0yp-
siss" He had 70 laavs nguBsA hOw-
ever, and eoDs 70 lnnAssaps bsfors hs
VS. fully spprssinasd. and hs vss thir-
tssn yssrs getting . msd,A q ~ sgs
Of Shirty-ssSen. Afssr h - the mAs-
kss he painted 100 ssss snd solA TOO
many pictures. end sssns1 - b drunk
for money.
Boueerssu IVES born y - ~ ~
old Huguenot plses Of Ii 1Dshsa1e. sd
while IN business houss IN beg6Do1x
attsndoda driving school twO hoass =
day. When With - litsls Training ~
took The priss over tAs ssAsr puptls
they msanly ssissA . riol Hi uncle.
. priest - 6sintnnes. gave him
shelter Tor his sassl. whsss no painter
had ever been. and hs worried hard 70
save one hundred and eighty dollars.
with which he entosed Root's seaady 1T
Paris. Al twenty-Avs he gained the
grand prize which cent him - Rome.
and at twenty-nins he had fams. He
has decosated thsotsrsf and churches
and town halls- In 1873 he painted
the nymphs and satyrs now In Stokes
barroom, . superb specimen Of cold
vestsl style. The nymphs being lit by
moon and sun. their nesh sparkling
like icscles, their desirableness not
human, their delicate fun mermAidish
and brattle.
The French landscape painter.
D'Aubigny. who died Ia 1879. - the
age Of sixty-seven. was . sketcher md
massive formulator Of the effects Of
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lighted in evening sceuea
Jules Breton. even better known.
was ten years younger; he wAs poet
- well - . painter. and put poetry
and humor into hin sympathstio pte-
turcA He delighted In peasant women
and shepherdessss. washerwoosn. etc..
and Landscape backgroandA
Carolus Duran. who hes brought up
Uhl and many Of Our Americas artista.
and was educated In Paris and Rome.
| lived among monks, and began "a
paint portraits with strength twenty.
| Eve years ago. He looks into ehArae.
ter acutely. paints accurately and
draws out effects almost like one
bringing notes from . trunk Hid
style Il somewhat Flemish and some
what Spanish. and withal French
There are three painters Of different
nations whose names are pronounced
by the public 'Mnlay." The English
painter. Millais, Of these. h about six.
ty-five years old. and he ran away with
the wife Of Rusl<in- Though born In
Southampton. he roved away his youth
In France and the Channel ialands, and
began to paint tsbleaux. such - Pisar
10. the Huguenots, Joan Of Arc, etc.
The English, on the lookout for grea,
painter. took very kindly to him. and
his engravings are found throughout
the British homes everywhere. He
paints portraits which arc thought q
be profound. and seldom gets less thar
ten thousand dollars apiece for them
He is what Il known a. . Pre-Raphsel
lite painter.
The French Millet died at the age OF
sixty-four. subsequent TO the Gcrma =
invasion Of France. and was brought
up by Paul Delaroche. He wssof nine
children and had no means. and Z
priest. who was . relative, brought him
up. He knew many = cold and hungry
day. but he had good health. and h
began 70 paint the people he knew
about-the peasants, the piowmen and
the shepherd. He only painted sbou'
eighty pictures in thirty-one ycars
thought mach over his themes. looke<
well To the sentiment, had no models
worked from the memory and the ob
scrvation. and his pictures IT his dsati
sold for 81. 200. most Of them undn
ished. AZ another sale the smoun
realized was about 90, 900. and onl,
one foreigner out Of twenty purchas
ers bought anything. The Frsncl
are well aware Of the value Of paint
ings 10 be treasured up and sold ~ long
subsequent dates
Francis d. Millctis IN American VIII
studies NJ Antwerp. took prizes and re
ceived important orders frusn America
and 10 not only . good artist. but
bright newspaper correspondent
whisalcr. who h . good deal tal,re.
about for his pertinseity In exhibttint
abroad. came from Lowell. Mass. IN.
his father. - engineer. took him y
Russis when . child. and hr rcturne,
and was educated ~ wes4 Point an.
removed IN England IT twcnty-one
studied in Paris. and began 10 give ex
hibitions of hia own twenty years ego
The furious critic. Ruskin. sid o
Whistler that hs was . coHcomb VII
asked two hundred guiness for ain9tnl
poe ri paint In the Public's fec
Whistler sued him for libel and 60
one fsrthinG dsmaGeA The QUEEN q
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