The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-07-20

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h jules Breton, even. better, known p
was ten years younger; he was pqet
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. $50,
Carolus Duran, who has brought mp,
Uhl and many Of our American artists
and was educated in Paris and Rome,
lived among monks. and began to
paint portraits with strength twenty
five years ago. He looks into charac-
ter acutely, paints accurately and
draws out effects almost like one
bringing notes from a 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-five years old, and he ran away with
the wife of Ruskin Though bornSin
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
The English, on the lookout fer great
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-Raphae
lite painter.
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 hungry
day, but he had good health, and hS
began to paint the peoples he knew
about-the peasants, the plowmen and
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 $4,000, 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,
bright newspaper correspondent.
Whistler. who is a good deal talked
about for his pertinacity in exhibiting
abroad, came from Lowell. Mass. and
his father, an engineer, took him to
Russia when d 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. Euskin, said Of
Whistler that he was a 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
UNI 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 boider 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-ore years ago,
and was one of Meissonier's pups
| The Austrians make much here of
Hans Mar,Sart. their great Rational
+ painter.~who lost his mind some Years
back. He was born in the sout.., Of
| Austria in 1910. studied at Munic, I'M
der Piloty, who painted historical lab
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