Evening star., 1932-11-23
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

A FEATURE Of the last phase Of
~ Of the George Washington BIZ
"A centennial celebration Is mon
4 "A umental study of the portraits
of the first President, recently
issued in three magnificent volumes,
total 1920 pages, illustrated with
many finely executed plates. 1t Is the
work of Dr. Gustavus Augustus Eisen,
and represents II years of devoted Ia
Dor. The publishers are Robert Han1il-
ton g. Associates, and the printers the
Lisiecki Press, New York.
The first volume deals with portraits
of Washington in oil by Gilbert Stuart;
the second with portraits in oil by
Charles Wilson Peale and others, and
with miniatures, crayons. charcoal and
line drawings by James Sharples, c. B.
J. F. de Saint Memin, etc, and the
third with sculptured portraits, includ-
ing statues. busts. reliefs and masks. In
wax, marble and plaster. DR.. Eisen had
the assistance Of Clarence j. Dearden
and Wilford s. Conrow in the prepara-.
ton of the text for the first and third
portions Of his survey.
The trojan proportions of the task
may be estimated from a glance at the
table of contents. In Volume I the
author considered the characteristics Of
Gilbert Stuart's art; when and where
the sittings granted the painter by
washington took place; the original
subscribers to Stuart's portraits Of
Washington: the Vaughan series Of
portraits; the bust portraits Of the
Lenox series; the Brook and Miller-Cake
subseries; the standing, full-length and
created portraits; the Lansdowne group;
Stuarts seated, equestrian and standing
| three-uuarter length WashingtonS: the
Faneuil Hall series; the Athenaeum
series and types; copies OF Stuarts
Washingtons by named artists; grouped
portraits. and Rembrandt Peale's lee
ture on the portraits of Washington.
Included in Volume III.
Volume II includes Charles Wilson
Peale's Washingtons; the Princeton type
and later full-lengths; bust and half
length portraits: the 1795 type and
series: the Charles Peale miniatures;
| James Peale's washingtons; Charles
Peale Polk's Washingtons; Rembrandt
Peale's three groups of portraits; the
equestrian Washington Before York
town; early portraits in oil by minor
artists: early portraits In oil and minia-
| ture by other artists; miniatures of
| Washington by many different hands /;
Washington portraits in the minor
techniques, including pastel, crayon and
charcoal; the City of New York woven
portrait of Washington; Washington
portraits in line drawing, pencil and
sepia; some of the best known Wash
| ingtons painted soon after his death
and in recent years; portrait signatures
and testimonials; the Winstanley, Peale,
Stuart, Walter and Frossard forgeries,
and a chronological sequence of the
principal contemporary portraits be-
tween 1772 and 1893.
In Volume III the subjects discussed
are patriotic interest in Washington
sculptures; the wax workers and their
art; Jean Antoine Houdon's commits
sion, activities in America and France,
life mask of Washington, plaster, mar
BILE, terra Gotta and unclassifled busts,
and statue; replicas of Houdon's Wash
| ingtons by other artists; busts by un-
known artists after Houdon: busts by
contemporary sculptors other than
Houdon; sculptors who made busts Of
Washington after his death; standing
statues of Washington by sculptors
other than Houdon equestrian statues