The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-19


 whose birth was Northumberland; and three portraits are from the brush of Catterson Smith, a Yorkshireman, who at the age of thirty-three went to Lon donderTy and thence to Dublin, where he became president of the Royal Hi- bernian academy. If prolonged resi- dence constitutes nationality what of George Chinnery, very interesting portraitist, here represented by ten works? For half century he lived and practieed his profession in either China or India, chiefly the former. It sounds adventurous and romantic, for Chinnery died in 1850, and in his days it was not easy for foreign devils to come and go in China.
 Then among contemporary painters are found J. J. Shannon, A. R. A., Irish by decent, American by birth, French by training, and English by practice; Frank Fisher of Anglo-Irish percentage and Bostonian birth; and John Layery George Henry and others associated with - the Glasgow school. One or two other painters are usually thought to be Australian. E sa. Nevertheless the bulk of the four hun dred and sixty-fve exhibits is the work Of men and women indutiably Irish, and many are tE,S names either of the painter or subject, that bring to mind makers of history political, social or artistic.
 There is Daniel o'Connell, painted by I Joseph Haverty; John Philpot Curran, | hTnOrn by Martin Shec, an Irish president of the English Royal academy. There are the three pictures of Daniel Maclise, R. A., and others, theatrical to our way of thinking, but immensely popular at the Royal academy 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 lmuch excellent work by Walter Os- borne, who died only last year, and Powerscourt, who died last month. A good landlord, so they said in Ireland, I Viscount Powerscourt of Powerscourt, County Wicklow. He was great be- liever in tafforesation and planted num- bers of trees with his own spade. I By j. B. Yeats, R. Ii. A., father of W. B. Yeats, the poet and playwright, lthere Is a series of interesting present. lments of interesting people, such as Katherine Tynan Hinkson, the poetic daughter of County Dublin farmer; Lady Gregory. translator of ancient Irish epics, such as "Cuchlain of Muir Ithemme,n and John o'Leary, who edi- ted by the Irish People, the organ of 1.-the Fenian brotherhood, and who was lone of the famous committee of three (which governed that brotherhood. There is good picture by Augustus Burke, brother of that ill-rated under isecretary for Ireland, Thomas Henry Burke, who, with Lord Frederic Caven- dish, was assassinated in the Phoenix Park by members of secret society known as the 'Invincibles." And by Miss Purser there Is portrait of one of the most popular and influential men in Ireland, Douglas Hyde, LB. D., lpresident of the Gaelic League, scholar, lpoet, dramatist, actor and folk-lorist, author of "The Literary History of Ire Hand" Tn their own tongue they call sE him An Cravibhin Avibhin, which, be- ling translated. works out as ''the de- ,l Lighted little branch.
 Tn this exhibition practically all de- apartments of the graphic arts are re- presented, and in each there is no lack of good work. To describe it all criti- cally would fill an issue of the Sun. Suffice it then to say that from the ar tistic point Of view the two most in Iteresting Irish artists of the present l time are Charles H. Shannon-not to be lconfused with J. J. Shannon and Wil- Iliam orpen. Both have been mentioned lin the Sun before. and both are artists lsuch as any country ought to be proud Ito possess-New York Sun.