The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-18

painters of the ninet ecnth century, MT
: nelaCroix. Corut. Chase riAu. CuIrbst.
Manet. Puvis. rrprr~antsd tradition.
Did lngres. when alive, repre@ent W
The masters officially recognized by the
s"hool were of another line; uerarJi
Gurrin. Couture, In whose hands the
manner of David dsgrnsrated 10 that OF
Bou RnIereAn and Cormon. Claude Monet
easily towers above tho now crowd even II
they have d~-erted him for Paul CSHani'e.
LAST HONORS TO HOLMAN HINT.
DIInsIs . Low cred In I.enae. s.::...==- s=:s:@
"Reminiscences.
IoNDoS. Sept. 10. William Holman
Hunt attracted for nearly half century
more public attention than any other
artist who ever painted canvas IN London
lie had survived all his pre-Ra phAslits
brethren with tho sole exception VI W NJ
Rossetti and most Of his friends Of early
days. though one. AN artist In another
line. William De Morgan. remains TO de-
light new generation.
The story ~ how abuss was heaped
upon Hunt. Millais and others 81 the
brethren il old now and few people to-day
remember that Dickens lent his pen 20 aid
ia the general vituperanon. In the Timss
Of May -. 1854. there appeared a notice
~ thu Royal Academy exhibition in which
tho critic disposed Of Hunt and MillAis
zlibly enough
These Young artists" he wrote. have
unfortunately become notorious by ad-
dieting themselves TO AN antiquated style
and an affected simplicity OF painting
We can extend no liberation 10 mere
ssnilo imi 'ation Of the cramped style,
false perspective and oruGc color of re-
mote antiquity We want not To $50
drapery snapped instead on folded.
faces bloated into apoplsIy or extern
uated to skeletons. colors borrowed
from the jars in a druggists shop, and
expression forced into oaricature. That
morbid infatuation which sacrifices truth.
beauty and genuine feeling TO moro &C.
centricity deserves no quarter at the
hands Of the public
Holman Hunts picture which 90 stirred
up the bile Of the Thundersr's' critic
was Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from
Proteus- II was not until three years
later that he exhibited The Light Of the
World along with The Awakened Con-
science AZ the Royal Academy.
Hunt lived frugally and ate sparingly
and his lofty ideals could not be influenced
by the Commerciahsm that sought
lat'erly Ia buy his works. He was a
fairly good hater and he never quite for
CAV" IN" authorities AT kebl- College
'Or the damage done TO his Light u the
" Yrid which was hung near hot water
pipes until II bliSt~red and cost him nearly
Two weary months 20 repain'
A. the time he was engaged on The
Light 1T the World h- work rd nearly
all night long because the daylight could
not give him the shadows required on
the model The story goes that the light
IN his studio window was landmark
for 40. cabbies On the rank AZ th. end
u the street.
Precisely a. the clock struck midnight
a squire would emerge from the house
and rae" 10 the end 81 the street. return /
ing ~ the same speed The cab driver-
.I-"i - watch the incident nightly Then /
tn. door would close and a." light IN the /
room would go out They little knew
II was Holman Hunt taxing hl~ exercise
after the strain 81 painting ms famous
picture
Toward the end Of his career London |
>aw httl" nf the great artist and friend 7
has put ON record a picture 81 the last .
pr nearly tn. last phase
/ r"mernb"r ha writes. one after |
noon som, htIla time after his Light !
u 'h' World was hung IN ~ Paul. how
ll- tall bent figure. heavily mufied
am. slowly very slowly down tho
steps. half -upp0rted by his
xrf- and a friend His sight was then
ar gon"
ON another occasion he was seen sitting
u the NhiteChapel Art Gallery without
ne nat His long. thick gray hair and his
peaTd has powerful face, not without
lu.rulousne-s with lie large shadows
md it, signs otpaiu and his eyes that had
worn them-rlve. out Ts-'riuR INTO the
Tacts and l-s-ons ~ things gave him the
ook ~ = broken prophet. 81 peat fire
hat had burned fi'fully iu IT. "mberS
la his youth Hunt had to facr real
,overty and insult. IA his middle age
-para',on and arrangement from his
I'D associates. and m his old age ne fought
or his sight. and the picture which he
e.m.d most to care for had to receive
- NptahtnU touches from another hand |