The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-23

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that i'll gathering all these to her
bosom Erin has spread her arms Il
little far and somewhat wide. There
is, for example, an ably painted head
by John Singleton Copley, who was
born in Boston in 1887, and is COM
monty looked upon as the founder of
American painting.
y large marine picture shows the
work of Clarkson Stanfield, Il. A.,
whose birthplace was Northumber-
land; and three portraits are from the
brush of Catterson Smith, Il Yorkshire
man, who at the age of SO went to
Londonderry, and thence to Dublin,
where he became president of the
Royal Hibernian academy. If pro-
longed residence constitutes national
ity, what of George Chimney, a very
interesting portraitist, here represent
ed by ten works? For half century
he lived and practiced his profession
in either China OF India, chilly the
former. 1t sounds adventurous and
romantic, for Chimney died in 1850
and in his days it was not so easy
for foreign devils to come and go in
China.
Then among contemporary painters
are found J. J. Shannon, A. r. A.,
Irish by descent, American by birth,
French by training, and English by
practice; Mark Fisher, of Anglo-Irish
parentage and Bostonian birth; and
John Lavery, George Henry, and
others associated with the Glasgow
school. One or two other painters are
usually thought to be Australian.
Nevertheless, the bulk of the 465
exhibits is the work of men and
women Individually Irish, and many
are the names, either of painter or
subject, that bring to mind makers of
history, political, social or artistic.
There is Daniel O'Connell, painted
by Joseph Haverty; John Philpot Cur
ran, by Hugh Hamilton, and Thomas
Moore, by Sir Martin Shee, an Irish
president of the English Royal AGA
deny. There are the genre pictures
of Daniel Maclise, r. A., and others,
theatrical to our way of thinking, but
immensely popular at the Royal acad-
envy some sixty years ago.
Numerously represented is William
Mulready, R. A, greatly admired by
the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, whose
influence on English art was very
wholesome.
Coming to more recent times, there
is much excellent work by Walter Os-
borne. who died only last year, and
among his work a portrait of Lord
Powerscourt, who died only last
month. A good landlord, so they said
in Ireland, was Merwyn Edward, Wis
count Powerscourt of Powerscourt,
county Wicklow. He was a great
believer in afforestation and planted
numbers of trees with his own spade
BY J. B. Yeats, R. H. A., father of
w. B. Yeats, the poet and playwright,
there is series of interesting present
ments of interesting people, such as
Katherine lyman Hinkson, the poetic
daughter of a county Dublin farmer;
Lady Gregory, translator of ancient
Irish epics, such as "Cuchulain of
Muirthemme;;" and John O'Leary, who
edited the. Irish People, the organ of
the Fenian Brotherhood, and who was
one Of the famous committee of three
which governed that brotherhood.
There is Il good picture by Augustus
Burke, brother Of that Inflated under
secretary for Ireland, Thomas Henry
Burke. who with Lord Frederic CAV
endfsh was assassinated in the Phoe-
nix park by members of a secret So
ciety known as the 'Invincibles. :"
And by Miss Purser there is portrait
of one of the most popular and in
tiuential men in Ireland, Douglas
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league, scholar, poet, dramatist, actor
and foll-lorist, author of "The Liter
airy History of Ireland" In their own
tongue they call him An Cravibhin
Avibhin, which being translated works
out as ''the delighted little branch"
In this exhibition practically all de-
partments of the graphic arts are rep
resented, and in each there is no lack
of good work. To describe it all crit
ically would fill an issue of The Sun.
Suffice it then to say that from the
artistic point Of view the two most
interesting Irish artists of the present
time are Charles III. Shannon-not to
be confused with ]. j. Shannon-and
William Orpen. Both have been men
toned in The Sun before, and both
are artists such as any country ought
to be proud to possess.