Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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by Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney. In fact,Trumbulls life-size portraits are among the indifferent children of the earth when theyare not positively bad, and there would seem to have been little taste for the miniatures inoil that he painted so well—supposing that he made it a jpart of his business to paint them.Nearly all those that we have were made, it will be remembered, as sketches to serve in thej)ainting of his historical pictures, but we have seen a few of them, painted apparently fortheir sitters, as w^as evidently the case Avith the fine miniature of Ceracchi the sculptor, foundby Mr. S. P. Avery in a shop at The Hague. No name was attached to the picture, but Mr.Avery immediately recognized the h-and of the artist, and it was later identified as the por- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 189 trait of Ceracclii by comparing it with the known portrait at New Haven, of which it is anexact copy, if indeed it be not the original. Painting like this ought to have made for Trum-
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UNCLE TOBY AND THE WIDOW WADMAN. FROM THE PICTURE BY CHARLES R. LESLIE, bull a name in England had he chosen to practise it, but he took the ordinary way, andfailed, as we have said. He then attempted hgure-painting in illustration of Scripture or of I90 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. popular poetrj; painted two large pictures with subjects from tlie Bible: The WomanTaken in Adultery and Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me—pictures for whichnobody at that time or at any time could find a use, and which were as inferior to the worstof AVests performances of the same sort as they were to the best of Trumbulls own. Itis indeed difficult to believe that the same hand painted these empty, pretentious pictures,devoid of any art bej^ond the reach of a clever house-painter, and the Battle of BunkerHill. Besides these pictnres he seized, says Dunlap, a moment of Russian popularity,and displayed Peter the Great at Narva. When Scotts poems occupied public attention,he painted Ellen Douglas, w

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