The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-19

~. Chsrtr-.'s Rses-us Psi.tss Portraits
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NJ, Chartrsn's RsesntiS Psiatsd Portraits
Il Is q very attractive exhibition that NJ. Char.
tran makes Of portraits recently painted by him
In this country. There are fourteen OF them In
the little gallery at Knoedler's. NJ. Chartran Is
a very skilful craftsman. who puts into his work
q certain animation that leaves It never COM
monplace. His color Is characterized by fresh
ness and delicacy and sometimes by rich quail
ties Of tone. HIS portrait Of Bernhard IN Ga
mondd Is q most captivating and spirited piece
Of portraiture treated In q worry decorative
manner. the expressive face and Rlittering and
bejewelled gown of the actress stand ing out
brilliantly against q background OF creamy
white canvas. The portrait of Mrs. Isaac Stern,
on the other hand. is seriously composed. and,
of course, much more subdued In color, while
the black lace gown has been painted with VERY
remarkable skill, and the flesh tints are fine In
color. Portraits OF Andrew Carnegie and Judge
Mellon of Pittsburgh are strongly Individual
lied, and crisp and effective in color.
The full.longth picture Of Mr.. II. +. Knoedler.
cigar in hand, is capital, and so, too, Is that Of
Capt. Santelll OF the steamship Touraine, n
handsome rudy sailor. Other portraits in tho
collection are those OF Mrs. Ira davenport. Miss
Hyde, Mrs. II. lie Grand Cannon. Mrs. r. II.
Townsend. Jr. OF Washington, and OF three
pretty children: but nothing in tho collection ia
more graceful in composition nor agreeable in
color than the very animated picture of tho
artists wife. Nine. Chartran, In n rich evening
costume of black aud rose. painted against o
background OF a beautiful green.
The seventy-Hrst exhibition OF the Academy
Of Design will open on Monday, Thursday being
appointed for vanishing day. The vanishing
day at the gallery Of the Society OF American
Artists will be on Friday OF next week. and the
show will open on the following Monday.
Mr.. Augustus Vincent Tack Is a young painter
who. naturally rejecting some of the methods Of
his recent master. Mr.. Mowbray. has still in
fused a certain individuality into his work that
is now on view at the Kraushaar galleries in
Broadway. Among his portraits his Maid
Marion " is perhaps tho best, a charming figure
Of u child and Enthusiastically childlike in
expression and pose. 1t is broadly brushed
In ana happily expressive. Tho Portrait
Of My Father" is equally lifelike in an
other way, being a severe Characterization
severely painted. There Is a study in
Black. " a portrait Of Miss Wright, that has
every appearance of being individually truth
full as we'll as agreeable In composition and exc
cution; while the few small landscapes. espe-
cially the Evening Solitude CNormandie)" and
THE Village Street" are agreeably suggestive.
There is q piece called Pastoral The Prin-
cess)' that has certain merits of color. but in
composition 1t Is open to some question on mere
grounds of common sense. The brown boy in
the pool is well enough painted, but the deool-
let6 young lady in an evergreen bramble on the
shore of tho pond does not seem TO be wholly in
place technically, artistically. or Gsthetically.