The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-14
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despatoh In yeatetisF'a sUsi
IN s~tfe"n''s portrait ~ Lord Ho,ar,a
thr tip button ~ tho ttnio D. oumplstely
missing The tinlc has M ~bt,tonholes and
tho hfserhsa have No seams FORMERLY The
iailots thought w.ll ~ Sargent b,t NV che
only satisfactory AetdetuicIan " Tbs ac'ilp.
Tor William dosrnmhe John, whoas eans
buttunholes. laJals. Sc In 4 mydern hairS
are iffrptoachnble
As u matter ~ fact, . mid an eminent
American artist yes,criay. 'thoss brcsches
In Lord Roberts'a uniform, ~ II ~happensd,
were very extraordinary brceohes indeed,
You $40. thsy don't have any aeamsl In tho
sides ~ course II IL quito unnecessary 10
@ay that therc wcre none in front. ~ .
matter 81 fact, that particular variety of
bTetfitFH w 81 NHr Htefia Nth'StaNfANNe ~
them In the back.
We'll, that puta tho painter Of tho pict-
uro In q rather extraordinary position, you
know. II seems that hes got 10 get tho
snams in the brooches into tho picture.
Well, he could do 80 aud give Us a very
interesting picture indeed. but not odlfy.
Ing, particularly rs | ace II, wouldn't caro-
TO look at Il, I must say. And the bettsr he
,.ala 40 tho ioaa III "a m IN lnnE M
But Sargent was not called Upon 10
PAINT any one part OF Roberts. He was
called on to paint Rlbera. Naturally
Roberts, facs was necessary In the picture.
And how he was to do tina, and still get in
the seams in Roberts's br9eches under the
circumstance I can't see"
This contention was emphatically In
dorsed by one artist after another. Among
the indorsers whose words were most
cheering were those Of T. Hopknson Smith,
| after he had completed O lecture over the
telephone OH The Art Of Portrait Painting
The most important thing In any por-
trait, " he ~expounded, lis the face. And OF
courne the art OF portraiture consists In
accenting the most important features
explanatory OF the character painted.
Thus, you see, Sargent has refined this
down oven TO the eyes and the man God
made looking out OF them. You can see
the food he eats, his age, his kind Of brain.
And Velasquez has gone even further:
Il TtIIltIllUtE " portrait Nv NtltNIiT1 VI
Pope Plus TX. or Leo XIII. in a London
gallery"
1t was gently represented to Mr.. Smith
hat tins Wa somewhat improbable, as the
two dignitaries had been born more than
two centuries after Velasquez died,
"What difference does II little matter OF
two hundred years make in art. Az ! was
saving, there Is the portrait of a man In
which the man looks out and judges YOU
but what Of the buttonless tunic2'
]Oh, rot. Sargent couldn't Zee a button
hole when there was something more i'm
portant to see. There was no use in putting
that in to attract attention from the man
he was representing. Seams2 Buttonsf
Rot; all rot.
"This man John puts 'em in, does he?
Well, / guess he'd better give up the sculp-
ture business and go into a tailor shop.
What a ladies' tailor hat man would make!
Have / ever heard Of himf No. and / never
want TO-. Good-by.'
Carroll Beckwith, who manifests his re-
given by getting his eartorial objets dart
made in London, also stood bravely by
Sargent. u..h
spite of tailors, he said. SIN not disposed
to say anything in particular about their
criticism. II the button or the seam was
necessary to the portrayal OF Lord Roberts,
such confidence In Mr.. Sargent's knowledge
and OF pertness In the art Of ~portraiture that
/ am rather reluctant to accept any criticism
whatever Of his work, This, Of course, Is
said in spite of the greatest respect on my
part for the English artists who make
clothes. No, Inever heard Of any one famous
John. Agood many gentlemen Of the name,
Of course, l am delighted to hear that there
Is ore man whose clothes are as perfect in
his statuary as they are out on the street.