The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-19
When scttine out from New York on . Euro
pean tour no thus wrote in his Journal:
Let not tho natnnfntlnna cnnd OF An

penn tour no thus wrote IN his 1ournali
Tsss ssmpis the eye but ssoushss not The heart.
Lure me from natures purer love divlne.
Hnt ike a pilgrim at some holy shrine
In her most sacred FEATURES to discern
THAT truth IL 6eauty.
And Europe's "gaud Of art did not win him
from the nature OF his adopted land. At his
death he had produced 81, his studio at the
Handicapped.
Coles. contemporary, Henry Inmnr. was
sintes by several New York Critics durinE tho
thirties and for.es. As a portrait. painter he
M MS' w 1SS b rSEo o. H ESr HAD 9 sSrsb e publ K T Il ssr Hnd
grayitated to New York. Scarcely. an old
Inickerbocker Is without a specimen Of lnman's
poriraiture or ono of his landscapes or story.
telling canvases Alter his death In lS46 n
loan, exhibition OF his pictures was given for
Union rooms, and there l26 OF his portraits and
other works were 20 be seen. lnnan,s art can
Harper in the City Hall. He. was a great &C
toErsSS a tslksE and had = aissl1Eni.hsd air Ia,
York period became best known by his I'VE.
nus" long on exhibition at the old Stuy yesant
forts below Now Orleans. .
the. portrait painter, Charles L. Elliott, who was
q a. S tsS S GSra fSyor ctS, sHlt a s ss ns,HSt, ssS' N wf then
a M%snaSSfSai his p eR | Of e. ZAP i. Wits SFHMss and dG GsS9se
=. Morris. His ability and standing may be In
eoran brought, Elliott, to the national capital
from New York in order to paint tho Corcoran
which that Wealthy art patron there founded.
Hoy perfectly his brush ru and palette Ut ala I'D. their
tSat an msy further SIs rssid pc ieff ip ftoI from he t msd tsG q
copy of an old master which was stopped in
transit by the Government officials. who sup
posed 1t TO DO the stolen original.
Emmanuel Lautze may be regarded rs q
New Yorker, for here # was that he c9nccivod
Emigration that may be seen on the south.
western staircase of the new wing ot,the Capt.,
iol m at Wa siiies, 4. n C %1Ess are o9 d Nsw YdSs
took seven of his best subjects, Johl Taylor
Johnston three, Marshall o. Roberts four, in;
Guiding Washington Crossing the Delaware. "
George A. Baker was another native Knicker.
booker painter whose speciality was the por-
iikencsses or as figures in some iidyiiic work
He was an Academicisn between 1850 and 1880.
.r Nsw york SsdTv has Il kF F1Dgs, two y ys Elnsg n,, who T onG
Jared HSrs tI b; F HiSgrss a Raias, wr,n Of ,b Ideals ssnto There s
elder, and William H. Both were animal paint.
ers, and the younger WIS remarkable for The
James H. Beard, Is in the collection OF William
d. Sloane. and "a Cool Spot" in that Of John
The Hogarth of New York was a banker and
! City Chamberlain, Francis w. Edmonds. who
contributed fifty genre pictures to Academy ex.
full Cousin, Taking tho Census" and Yankee
bargaining" A former New Yorker, Will
liam l.. Mount, was termed in his day the comic
9.inter Of American life; His Turning the
zion. bis bargaining for Q Horse" in the Histor-
ical Library, and his "Raffiing for n Goose" was
taken to England by Mrs. M. o. Roberts on her
marriage to Col. Vivian as an example Of Amer
lean life and comic art.
That whimsical Irishman, Paul Duggan, who
envy. now the College OF the CITY OF New York.
painted portraits In oil, notably one Of the late
George L.. Duyckinck, but was as great q
crayon artist as Richard Doyle of Punch fame.
Tonpkins Matteson, during the ~forties. had q
well.known broadway, studio, and painted q
showing an old man blowing the fife and a boy
beating q drum. Engravlngs of this painting
are to be found In the print shops.
During the ffties three painter chums occupied
together a broadway studio.Louis Lang, Thorn
as p. Rossiter. and John j. kcnsett, all Acad-
emicians. The first became famous for o
picture Of the Maid Of saraagossa. owned by R;
Miriam" and 'Wfse and Foolish Virgins
while Kensett became q painter. Of landscapes
of the Middle States. Lord Ellesmere. when
visiting this city, remarked that II he wished to
carry home pictorial impressions Of American
Henry Peters Gray was a born New Yorker,
and became an art student with Huntington.
sketch Of THE Pride OF the Village"
Thomas Hicks who became an Aeademician
Emmons Clark. one Of William NJ. Evarts in
the Century Club. and those of the poets Hal
leck, Bryant, and Bayard Taylor, and of Beech
er and Edwin Booth, are very well known.