The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

drawn; the artist is living their
action
But before the armistice had been
signed Romano had found new in
terests. The boy discovered the Ire
around him-the cook, the kitchen, the
monkeys and the leopards at the villa
Borshesa. and all sorts of interesting
types in the sunshine of Rome ana
Carrara- Perhaps this is a sign Oh ms
coming of age. Let us hope. at any
rate, that the praise and plaudits THESE
remarkable drawings have aroused IN
every civilized country will not rum
his future development. the wise
parents have no idle theories or ART
education. They are not worrying
about the future development or the
boy, but they knew that the sea ana
the mountains of Versilia would ne
better for him than the hectic rapidly
of the movies" And there, from last
reports, the boy Is still developing.
Joseph f. widener has not COM
pleted the famous art collection at FL
kins Park, Pennsylvania, as his ac-
| quisition of a famous, although NOV
recently exhibited painting by Rom
| new shows. This is the noted PORTRAY
| of Lady Arabella Ward. Maurice H.
rockwell writes very interestingly
of this ACQUISITION in the August num-
her of Art In America. He says the
picture is a three-quarter canvas I'D
| the eighteenth century language OF
the studio, and represents her III paIe
| blue dress, black shawl and WHITE
muslin bodice, with blue velvet band
round her neck. But above all we notice
the large hat, the under brim of which
is lined with light blue. Her hair Is
powdered and she looks out to the left'
| The lady was born in 1857 ana we
read in the Gentiemdms Magazine TOT
1888 that in February Lady Arabelia
Crosbie was married to - Ward,
ESQ, of the Kingdom of Ireland Inc
next number of the magazine is more
precise, as 1t tells us of the marriage
of Lady Arabella Crosbie, sister to the
Earl of Glandore, to - Ward, ESQ.,
of Castle Ward, County of Down In
Ireland"
Before very long she gave her first
sitting to Romney for this canvas
|
twenty-five. For we find in Romney'
diary under March is, 1888, the entry;
Lady A. Ward at g." There is a long
interval between that sitting and the
next, and the reason is not difhcult to
find. Her two eldest sons were borr
in 1885 and 1855, and their deaths II
infancy doubtless occasioned the In
terruption in the sittings. However
on November 10, 1887, we find the en-
try: "Mr. Ward at 2. Lady A. WAR;
at l." Her name occurs again seVera
times in that and the following month
; On January IL, 1888, her name ap
!, pears for the last time. Ward AM
Romney tell us that on June IA
a that year Romney gave a receipt L
.'Mr. Ward for his and Lady A. Ward
, portraits, 8 qre., in full EAT IS. Boil
. sent off to the care of Samuel john
q ston, Liverpool, June II. 17sS.' In
), price Is lust what we should have ex
, pected as we know that in 1871 Rom
= ney was asking twenty guineas, an
by 1887 twenty-five guineas for por
o trait of this size. How much cheape
9 Romney's portraits were than Rey
q noldss is shown by the fact that.
8 early as 1865, the future presiden
4 was getting fifty guineas for such
d portrait Yet beyond all question tn
), works of the cheaper practitioner ar
k to-day In far finer state of preserva
{. ton. The receipt in question seem
d to show that, when originally com
s menced, Lady Arabella's portal
i would cost only twenty guineas an
s so would prove that it was not unit
a after March, 1888, that Romney raise
d his fee. The consequence was that
Il this case the husband, who first ss
e November 8, 1887, had to pay til
Re higher fee. This is strange, when "
!. consider the financial disparity to-da
It between a male and female portra
10 of the same quality.
y But what is known Of the Crosb
i family?
lie According to Charles Smith II
> Irish family of Crosbie or Crosby is
~ branch of the English family of thu
5 name. Although Smith did not 8
J. deeper into the question we may poll
to the mention of the Crossebie fan
u lily in England in the time Of Edwai
% II. and to Sir John Crosbie who,
ment as q representative for the Cit
u Of London, together with, STRANGE
o. enough John Warde. Sir John Crosbi
- Mayor of the Staple-or mart for II
~ importation of merchandise-at Gala
circd 1870, is famous as having but
Is Crosbie House, his magnificent hou.
ly in Bishopsgate street.
IA Smith holds that toward the latt'
e. end of Queen Elizabeths reign Il
Is Crosbie family settled in Kerry, beir
i descended from family of the nan
Is in Great Crosbie in Lancashire. TIL
lie was doubtless another branch OF Il
" family. At least as early as the reie
10 of Henry VIII. the name is found
" Ireland. as a Crosbie was prior
he Trim. County Meath, at that tim
as jeremiah King informs us that {
r. December 81, 1900, Patrick Crosb
- declared that he was of Englis
D. blood, his family name having bet
ig Crosby or Crosbie ever since Edwal
ne ". (He evidently referred to S
~ John Crosbie. then representative
= Parliament, as We have shown.) A,
cording to, ODonovan and other a.
thorities the Crosby family is of Iri.
origin, and they say that the fir
tie Crosbie of note was son of the "Chie
r; Rhymor of O'Moore," who was nam,
Y, Patrick MacCrossan, dextrously Al
-