Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-07-18
THE LATE WILLIAM ]. STILLMAN.

New York Evening Post %{a4
William James Stillman, whose long.
active, varied, and interesting career
was reviewed, a short time ago, ut much
length IN the Evening Post, died ON
Saturday at his English home, Frimley
Green, Surrey. In view of their recent
recital, it is only necessary at this time
to set down briefly and in order the
principal incidents of his life. He was
born in Schenectady, N. u, on the lst
OF June, 1928; was graduated at Union
College in 164S, and at once began to
study landscape painting under Frederr
ick E. Church. In 1849 he paid his
first visit to Europe, where. he became
intimate with John Ruskin, RoHsetti,
and the whole pro -Raphaelite brother
hood. From 1851 to 1863 he was a
regular contributor to the Academy OF
Design, of which he was elected an
associate in 1854. Meanwhile, the
eloquence of Kossuth had filled him
with enthusiasm for the Hungarian
cause, and in 1852 he accepted from the
illustrious patriot perilous mission to
Vienna to recover the Austrian crown
| Jewels which the latter had secreted.
| On his return to New York he, with
John Durand, founded tAs Crayon, and
gradually began to abandon the pursuit
OF painting for that of criticism and
general literature. 1t was in those days
| that he formed his intimacy with
Lowell, Agassiz, Emerson, and others,
whom he painted in now preeions
| Adirond8 ok group.
| In 1853 he again went to Europe, and
aoIed as United States consul at Rome
| from this post-in consequence, he
says, of his protests against the man
| agement of the legRtion-to that of con-
\ sui in Crete, which he held until 1869.
\ when the Turkish government succeeded
| in bringing about his retirement, he
having made himself obnoxious both
at Oonstantinople and Athens, by his
lahors to alleviate the sutferings of the
victims of the insurrection in that un
harry island. His own life was often in
peril and he has given fascinating ac-
count of his experiences and adyen-
lures in his "Cretan Insurreotion. ;
lie owed his safety largely to the fact
OF his being the correspondent OF the
London Times, in whose columns he
made an effective exposure of Turkish
misrule. In 1886 he became the GORE
spondent OF the Times in Rome, and II
was as the representative of that
journal that he was able to prosecute,
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Greek archaeology in Greece, Melos,
Sicily, and elsewhere, the fruits OF
which are displayed in his son The
Track of Ulysses, i ''The Acropolis ol
Athens, +" and other publications. Hs
was the author, also, OF 'Herzegoyins
and the Late UPRISING Poetic Lo
calitiea of Cambridge, ''"The Union o.
Italy," Life of Crispi,' and many
magazine articles on critical and an
. tiauarian subjects. His autobiography
which attracted wide attention, wa
, published this spring. Mr.. Stillmar
was a devoted naturalist, and was es
peoially fond of squirrels, of whos'
; habits no had made life-long study
, He was sturdy champion of thess
little animals-often regarded b,
farmers as a pest-and was mover wear,
of writing letters to defend then
against the aspersions of their enemies
| His TBilly and Hans" is delightful
story of two OF his own squirrel rets
AS photographer he was exceedingl!
exnert, and his reproductions of tbs
: masterpieces of classical architecture
+ and sculpture had many rare artistic
qualities.