A history of the United States for schools . essor Child, of Har-vard, is known throughout Europe as a colossal monu-ment of critical scholarship. In comparative philologyno name of recent times stands higher than that of thelate William Dwight Whitney, Professor of Sanskrit atYale. For valuable work in American ethnology andarchaeology we must cite that of Powell, Bandelier, andCushing; and in Indian linguistics that of Trumbull,Hale, and Brinton. Coming to the fine arts, our first eminent name is thatof the portrait painter John Singleton Copley,whose life was a romance. He was born inBoston
A history of the United States for schools . essor Child, of Har-vard, is known throughout Europe as a colossal monu-ment of critical scholarship. In comparative philologyno name of recent times stands higher than that of thelate William Dwight Whitney, Professor of Sanskrit atYale. For valuable work in American ethnology andarchaeology we must cite that of Powell, Bandelier, andCushing; and in Indian linguistics that of Trumbull,Hale, and Brinton. Coming to the fine arts, our first eminent name is thatof the portrait painter John Singleton Copley,whose life was a romance. He was born inBoston in 1737, the son of poor parents, who had latelycome from Ireland. At an early age he showed anirrepressible talent for drawing and painting, and incourse of time won such local fame that most of theeminent and wealthy people in Boston sat to him fortheir portraits. In I760, he was persuaded to send oneof his pictures to London for exhibition. This madehim famous in England, so that in 1774 he went over 5T7S. SOME FEATURES OF PROGRESS. 503. JOHN SINGLEION COPLEY. there and found so much occupation that he never re-turned to America. His son, John Singleton Copley,became Lord Chancellor, and was raised to the peerageas Lord much can comefrom talents well used. Among our earlypainters other eminentnames are Gilbert Stu-art, John Trumbull,Benjamin West, andWashington the last halfcentury we have hadseveral landscapepainters of high excel-lence, such as Du-rand, Cole, Huntington, Inness, Church, Bierstadt, Gif-ford, Kensett, Whitredge, Cropsey, Winslow Homer, andHomer Martin ; and among genre^ painters EastmanJohnson has been pioneer in a school that includesPerry, Hennessy, and other eminent names, and has donework that rivals that of any people in Europe. Thepaintings of Elihu Vedder show rare originality andpower; and last, not least, may be mentioned John LaKar<4e, great in many ways. Among our really eminent sculptors may be namedGreenough, Craw
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