. Art and artists of our time. -). bust of DRAWN BY KENYON COX. FROM THE ORIGINAL BY CERACCHI. hardened plaster from Washingtons face, he awkwardly let it fall, and it was broken topieces. The process is an extremely disagreeable one, and Washington refused to submit toit again, so that the project of a statue had to be deferred until Houdon came over to Americawith Franklin. Mr. Wright married a Miss Vandervoort. They were both carried off by the yellowfever in 1793, dying in the prime of life within a few days of each other. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 215 Our account woixld be
. Art and artists of our time. -). bust of DRAWN BY KENYON COX. FROM THE ORIGINAL BY CERACCHI. hardened plaster from Washingtons face, he awkwardly let it fall, and it was broken topieces. The process is an extremely disagreeable one, and Washington refused to submit toit again, so that the project of a statue had to be deferred until Houdon came over to Americawith Franklin. Mr. Wright married a Miss Vandervoort. They were both carried off by the yellowfever in 1793, dying in the prime of life within a few days of each other. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 215 Our account woixld be incomplete without a mention of C. W. Peale and his sons,Raphael and Rembrandt, because they were among the most active agencies in keeping upan interest in the arts at a time when it would seem that nothing could have been less likelyto interest such a society as then existed in America. These earlier men, even the best ofthem, did little more than to stimulate, and to keep dimly alive, a taste for something thatwas at least
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