The record-union., 1897-11-21

itself not only in his eXquiSitely poetlcaI
work, but in his manner his talk ana
his attitude toward the world TO some
MIR. Church is chiefly known as the ere
ator with pigments on canvas OF mai
deDS so divinely beautiful that the
beasts of the forests become as sucking
doves in their presence; to others ne Is
known as humorist who can SO oeplct
animals that they speak with pam
ness and vigor rarely given TO men, 10
others, again. he is known as quaint
raconteur and a writer Of original thlngs
in a most original way. But to all MI.
Church is known as one OF the pest eX-
pcnents of an art which is rs original as
any given to the world by any first-rate
American. Mr.. Church is so modest
man that he viii probably not like that
this should be said about him. His mod
esty was illustrated several years ago
when he was invited by a colleague TO
dinner. At the dinner We're some other
guests, who We're inclined to make non
of Mr.. Church. He could not resent TINS,
but after dinner he found some kittens
in the hall, and, taking them to the
drawing room, he sat on the floor ana
played with them till it was time TO go
home, meantime ignoring everything
else.
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New York Herald, November lst:
Among the passengers who arrived mere
yesterday on the French steamer Iou-
raine was Raimundo de Madrazo the
celebrated painter. He was accom-
panied by his son, Frederlco de Mao-
razo, who, although quite a young ihah'
has achieved considerable success as
ra-It ted
painter. Raimundo de Madrazo visited
America for the first time last year. his
fame had preceded him here many years
before. Coming from family dlstln-
guished in art, he also has long since
established himself as one OF the tore-
most painters of the day. lie is the son
OF FREDERICK de Madrazo, who was paint
er to the court OF Spain, and Is the
grandson of Jose de MadraZo, painter TO
the court OF Spain, founder OF the Mu-
scum of Madrid and pupil of David
His brother is the present court painter
of Spain. Raimundo de MadraZo Is
ranked as the most talented member OF
this rarely gifted family. He was born
in Rome in the early forties and studied
at first under his father and at the
Academy of st. Ferdinand When he
was twenty years old he went to Paris
and continued his art studies at the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Cog
MET The first work of conspicuous I'M
portance that came from his brush was
a plafond for the Hotel de la Refine Chri-
tine. in the Champs-Elysees. His AFTER
the Masked Ball. brought him further
fame AS a portrait painter Nj. DE
Madrazo has obtained an especially emil
uent position. He has painted, among
others, portraits of William III. Stewart,
MIR. and Mrs. Robert L. Cutting, Will
lam H Vanderbilt Mr.. and Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Astor, Mr.. ana
Mrs. c. K Vanderbilt, Mrs. Robert l..
Kennedy. Mrs. Drexel Mrs Cornellus
Vanderbilt Jr, and Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney NJ. de MadraZo is also Wldely
known as an art collector, possessing
examples of Rubens, Raphael, Watteau'
Ingres Latour, Boudry and Goga. he
exhibited several paintings in Parls at
the Exposition Universale in loo9' lot
which he was awarded gold medals and
the cross of the Legion of Honor. Hls
son. NJ FREDERICK. gives promise Oh
being a worthy successor Of the olsth-
e,,.shed father. His portraits have been
highly praised. This is his nrst WISH 10
America. He speaks English fiuentiy,
however. NJ. Qe MAUI dLc " 1NS NAA~ 49,
long friend of Fortuny, the great Span
ish painter, to whom his sister was mar
,;aa His early days We're spent in
Rome, but the last twenty years OF ms
life have been passed in Paris, the city
of his adoption
New York Post: In gazing around
the studio of Thomas Moran as you
stand within the tinged twilight OF It's
really great canvases, your eye is at
tracted to a picture near the great
north-light window-a wall of glass
from ceiling to floor. The picture is a
Venetian subject Tt is. truly the old
lagoons of the Bride Of the Adriatic,
Wonder arises the dome of Santa Maria
della Salute. Here are the waterways
that have wound into the remembrance
of the generations since Venice arose
an iridescent bubble beyond belief on
the gray sky of the actual. But Ven
ice rarely has been treated thus. 1t
Is all as you see it before you have
seen IL; 1t is all as you see IT in home
sick pang after you have left ii forever.
Then your eye ranges TO the other side
of the window, and rests upon the Prov
of a boat covered with canvas-cover-
ing. carefully shielded in the wide gar
den from the freaks Of weather. That
is Robert Browning's gondola that We
bought in Venice" the voice of the art
list says 1T is the gondola which the
poet used all the time he was in the
city OF the Adriatic. In 1t he wrote In
a Gondola' There are the chairs that
We're always in the boat. and We're used
by Robert Browning. Mr.. Moran
pointed to two antique, heavily carved
ebony chairs beside the old fireplace.
Robert Browning bought them in one
Of the old palaces. as l learned from the
poets gondolier, who was in our en-
ploy the entire time we were in Venice.
We take the gondola out sometimes on
the East Hampton pond But the
pond Is unkind TO the gondola. and the
gondola frets the pond. And somehow
they fight. So we deemed it wiser to
thatch it-thus"
New York Times: Every man, woiu-
an and child is the owner of a more per-
feet piece OF mechanism than has ever
been put together in the form of a ma
chine, or in all the contrivances and de-
vices. collectively. that fill the great
storerooms or our Patent Office at
Washington. This wonderful mechan-
ism reaches from the fingertins to the
backbone, and each joint is so fitted
and provided that ii can move separ-
ately or with any one or all the other
joints together. AT the elbow there is
q most powerful hinge joint: in the
shoulder there is universal ball-ane-
socket joint: the biceps, which is the
pride of John L. Sullivan. acts as