The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15

may be. All OF these have, OF profess to
have, an abiding faith in their ability to
make q name eventually, even though they
have to struggle at first.
The vogue that comes to q painter merely
from his social success one Of group OF
artists said the other day. lis never lasting.
He IL likely to see himself supplanted at
the end Of year or two by some newcomer
who IL taken up by fashionable women
and finds himself the popular painter OF that
~ yesterday . Portrait ,t IL, painter inter. wh e
New York among his sitters, His pictures
were not serious or artistic; but they had
some quality that these women liked, and,
above all, they were done by the man who
was at that time the fad In society.
pletey. ] haven't heard Of his painting
anybody for the last five years. he is still
invited about In smart society. But 80
far az his painting Ia concerned, he might
as well not be In New York. Yet can so
well remember the time only few years ago
fifteen or twenty portraits for which he
bad received more than 81 900 apiece
Laymen have observed the way In which
portrait painters are taken up, 10 be sue
oeeded In turn by newer favorites. II is
important. Of course. for these men 10
mako hay while the sun shines. They
must paint ss many portraits as possible
while they are the vogue. and they must
Get the highest prices possible.
THE fashionable portrait painter who
depends chiefly on his social vogue, said
one who has made no effort TO get into that
Glaze, must always expect TO zee his popu-
hrity disappear In accordance with a GER ain
rule. He viii fret he In favor a. the PAINTER
Of fashionable and rch women. Wl.en
this set begins 10 weary Of him and another
int h. H..
sIpec, TO 10 satisfied with the patronage
OF the wealthy who are not likely 20 be
important socially at any time.
Then he must be more attentive than
ever 20 his smart acquaintance. as they
give him HE greatest importance In the
Q while he Ia certainly TO lose this set, too,
unlsss hs has an eIperience unlike that Of
any other painter known here
American porTAN painters are often
heard 70 say that they have lee opportunity
even II they wanted 10 society 81 the
kind that 10 valuable for this purposs gives
the slsd hand 70 the foreign painter nsr-ly
b~oaus- he lea painter, while the American.
equally gifted and deserving % social reoos.
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