The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-25

to secure pictures of him in different
attitudes, and 1 had several taken of
him. On one occasion, during my
visit to Lexington, he passed an ex-
perience which l knew was little short
of an ordeal for him.
"Mrs. Lee being an invalid, could
not 60 to the room where the bust
was being modelled, so the bust was
removed to the parlor, where we
found several guests had assembled.
There, the General, at the request of
the good wife, turned in number Of
different directions, and the bust was
unsparingly compared with the origi-
nal-all of which he submitted to
without a murmur."
Mr.. Valentine received common
school training, and later attended the
Richmond Medical College. In 1855,
while on a visit to New York City,
the young students fancy was caught
by beautiful piece of sculpture by
Kiss, "Amazon Attacked by Panther"
He at once took up sculpture, and in
1859 arrived in Paris, where he stu
died the nude, under Couture. Later,
at Berlin, he placed himself in the
hands of Kiss, the sculptor who had
furnished him his first incentive. The
widow of Kiss, just before her death,
presented Mr.. Valentine with the i'm
Elements with which the masters
work had been wrought. =,
The additional best known works OF
Valentine include a classic group" An
dromache and AstyanaX," which was
exhibited at the Chicago Worlds
Fair, and was afterward Withdrawn
and now rests in its creators studio,
and a marvelously exquisite figure
known as "The Blind Girl" This al.
50 stands in the sculptor's studio, and
so iealously does he guard these
treasures that no photographs OF
them have ever been published. His
measurements of Lee and a uniform
belonging to the general are kept
from within the reach or view OF
siphtseers and brother artists.
The atelier of Sir Moses Ezekiel,
located in a portion Of Dlocletlan S
baths, in Rome, is one Of the largest
in that artistic center.
Sir Moses was born in Richmond III
1916. and in 1860 entered the Virgin
ia Military Institute, and with the
other cadets later participated in he
defense Newmarket, bit OF hlsto-
ric heroism accomplished by soldiers
hardly united from their mothers
apron strings.
Ezikiel studied in Germany under
Prof. Albert Wolf, and it was there,
while working and studying on one
meal a day that the young Virglnlan
with his colossal bust of Washington,
captured the Michael Beers prize
prize which yielded 1,50O thalers and
a two years course in Rome. For
time followed the young sculptor, and
he was knighted by King Humbert,
shortly before that monarch met
death by assassination.
Sir Moses works are very numer-
Gus, among the best known of them
being the group, Religious Liberty
in Philadelphia. Another of his de.
signs is a group that he modelled
and presented to the Virginia Mill
tary Institute in memory of the ca
diets who fell in our great war.
The great achievement of his life
is the monument to the Confederate
dead at Arlington. Nothing quite
like it has ever been attempted. 1t
is in the form of an enormous urn
and within q frieze or belt around
the center of the urn figures in bas-
relief and alto relieve march in I'M
broken circle, telling the story of
those who served, and of those who
made possible the service in the war
between the North and the South,
All kinds and conditions of soldiers
are there; so is the black "mammy,
now rapidly fading from earth and
view: the Southern matron in her
booped skirts, sending her warrior
husband off to duty; and the baby in
the arms Of its young mother held up
to kiss the soldier-father. 1t is a
remarkable and colossal piece Of
work,