. Art and artists of our time. is health again failed him, and he abandoned all attempt at continuous studyaccording to the usual methods. He passed a month under the tuition of Regis Gignoux,and then began to paint landscapes without further instruction from others, and in simplereliance upon his own observation. He has several times visited Europe, but his pictures bear no trace of foreign influence. Tliey are of unequal merit, as might have been expected- III 254 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. in a man of his poetic temperament and uncertain health, but at his best his work has notbeen surpas
. Art and artists of our time. is health again failed him, and he abandoned all attempt at continuous studyaccording to the usual methods. He passed a month under the tuition of Regis Gignoux,and then began to paint landscapes without further instruction from others, and in simplereliance upon his own observation. He has several times visited Europe, but his pictures bear no trace of foreign influence. Tliey are of unequal merit, as might have been expected- III 254 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. in a man of his poetic temperament and uncertain health, but at his best his work has notbeen surpassed in imaginative quality by that of any American. It has been said that he isa follower, an imitator even, of Rousseaii, but his work is of so various a quality, and dealswith so many phases of nature, that it can be only now and then that such a resemblance isapparent, and then it must be Judged piirely supei-ficial. The picture that we copy has cer-tainly no kinship to Rousseau, and yet it is very characteristic of MAKING GAME OF THE HUNTER. FROM THE PAINTING BY WILLIAM H. BEARD, BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSELL & CO. Elihu Vedder was born in New York in 1836. He showed the artist-bent from earlychildhood, and after studying for several years in Italy he returned for a while to NewYork, but again went to Italy, and has since taken up what we may suppose his permanentresidence in Rome. Vedder is fond of grotesque subjects, which easily pass with the public,as with himself, for imagination, but which continually baulk us by the intrusion of common-place, and a matter-of-fact desire to reduce all mystery to plain statement. The titles of hispictures have an alluring sound; The Lair of the Sea-Serpent, Arab Listening to the
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