Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . e pioneers who first awoke the attention of the nation to a consciousnessof the beauty, glory, and inexhaustible variety of the scenery of this con-tinent, which had fallen to them as a heritage such as no other peoplehave yet acquired. Mignot was at once a fine colorist and one of themost skilled of our painters in the handling of materials; his was also amind fired by a wide range of sympathies; and whether it was the superbsplendor of the tropical scenery of the Rio Baraba, in South America, thesublime maddening rush of iris-circled water a
Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . e pioneers who first awoke the attention of the nation to a consciousnessof the beauty, glory, and inexhaustible variety of the scenery of this con-tinent, which had fallen to them as a heritage such as no other peoplehave yet acquired. Mignot was at once a fine colorist and one of themost skilled of our painters in the handling of materials; his was also amind fired by a wide range of sympathies; and whether it was the superbsplendor of the tropical scenery of the Rio Baraba, in South America, thesublime maddening rush of iris-circled water at Niagara, or the fairy-like-grace, the exquisite and ethereal loveliness of new-fallen snow, he wasequally happy in rendering the varied aspects of nature. It is greatly tobe regretted that the most important works of this artist are owned inEngland, whither he resorted at the opening of the civil war. Snow inHyde Park, which be painted not long before his death, is one of thenoblest productions of American landscape-painting. 84 ART IN a winter scene.—[louis k. hignot.] The American marine art of this period has been represented by anumber of artists, although they have been b}r no means so numerous orcapable as the maritime character of our people would have led us toexpect. William Bradford, by origin a Quaker, has made to himself aname for his enterprise in going repeatedly to Labrador to study icebergs,and has executed some effective compositions, which have won him fameat home and abroad. Some of his coast scenes are also spirited, althoughopen to the charge of technical errors. Charles Temple Dix, who unfort-unately died young, painted some dashing, imaginative, and promisingcompositions; and Harry Brown, of Portland, has successfully renderedcertain coast effects. But our ablest marine-painter of this period seemsto have been James Hamilton, of Philadelphia, who was beyond questionan artist of genius. His color was sometimes harsh and crude; but liehandled
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