The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-01
PORTRAITS HOLD EYE
IN WORKS ON VIEW
Nearly 800 Paintings From
Blakcslcc Collection Will
he Sold.
FIRST SALE At PLAZA

Nearly 900 paintings. comprising all
the works that were left after the earlier
sale from the Blakeslce Collection, will
be placed on public view to-day at the
American Art Galleries. 8 East Twenty
third street. The pictures will be eold
at the Plaza Hotel next Monday evening
and at the galleries on following eve.
nings until Friday. Thomas l.. Kirby
will conduct the sale.
At first glance about the walls the
visitor is impressed with the number Of
paintings frankly labelled After So
and-so" or "Dutch School" In many
cases the second thought Is that the ar.
list whoever he was. learned a good
deal about good painting in the said
school wherever II WAS held.
Among the most famous names at
tached without question to any Of these
examples is that Of Goya. And strange
is the sound OF the title. Portrait Of
the Prince of Peace" This gentleman,
Principe de la Paz. demonstrates his
right TO such "A title by his work in be.
half Of education. His breast is covered
with medals. n a book containing q
portrait OF Pestalozzi is In his hand.
He is apparently delivering an address
on education.
No Hint Of Grotesqueries.
There were many phases Of the Span.
ish painter Goya. This picture has In II
no hint of the half mad inventor of
g~rotespueries or OF the restless recorder
OF a turbulent ~Spain--the Spain we see
and hear In 'Goyescas." this seasons
novelty at the Metropolitan Opera.
Van Dyck is aiother famous name,
represented by a Daughter Of the Coun-
tess OF Holland" a whole length. life
size portrait from the Earl Of Dunmore's
collection. nj Is not unlike y Penn
broke Van Dyck often reproduced. The
lady is well earnishei about the face
with rows OF Nat curling ringlets and
on neck and corsaSe with many pearls.
Inc gown is OF heavy silk. gathered In
the left hand.
There are many other portraits of
English men and women made tN native
artists. beginning with Sir Joshua Reyn.
olds. The Countess of Stafford was
purchased from Agnew and came from
the Thomas Mclean collection. Rich
ara Cosway. the master miniaturlst,
could paint also in the large, az may 10
seen from his Lady Seated in a Land
scape--one OF those landscapes made
10 accommodate only one sitter, a kind
OF outdoor fashionable painters studio.
Sir william Beechey is another OF
these English portraitists to lie repre-
sented here. his lady having "a like
favored position in the midst OF nature.
kneller. Romne,, Harlow. Peters,
lnskip. Cotes. pohson are some Of the
English names. The last IL responsible
FOR a con position shown just In season
Tor this years tercentcnary celebration
or "A great poets passing--"Comedy
Nursing the Infant Shakespeare Sh
the baby IL asleep and doesn't dream
even u deer stealing. to say nothing Of
appropriating AL his plots from the
Italian novelists.
The name OF John Raphael smith must
no. be omitted. He is better known An
a mezzot!nt but the lively
portrait OF a child on a blue sofa shows
he could use a brush or canvas. The
anectionate paw OF "A little dog lies
across the child's wris; and her other
arm Is about the dogs neck.
OF especial interest 10 Americans are
The few examples OF men o. the English
school who worked over here In the Co
lorial and early national periods, John
Singleton Copley's group Is said to rep
resent The artist himself and his son.
This example was purchased In BOSTON.