. Art and artists of our time . ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 299 painted portraits, but, witli some few exceptions, has not achieved any great success in thisdirection, although his portrait of his father, now in the Museum at Dantzig, is spoken of as amasterpiece. It is, however, as an animal-painter that Meyerheim will be best known, and someof his jjictures have not been sui-passed for strength of characterization and simple naturalnessby anything that has been done in England or France, where the Landseers, Rivieres, Baryes,. LION AND THE PICTURE BY PAUL MEYERHEIM. and Bonheu
. Art and artists of our time . ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 299 painted portraits, but, witli some few exceptions, has not achieved any great success in thisdirection, although his portrait of his father, now in the Museum at Dantzig, is spoken of as amasterpiece. It is, however, as an animal-painter that Meyerheim will be best known, and someof his jjictures have not been sui-passed for strength of characterization and simple naturalnessby anything that has been done in England or France, where the Landseers, Rivieres, Baryes,. LION AND THE PICTURE BY PAUL MEYERHEIM. and Bonheurs have set up a standard difficult of attainment. Among the best of his picturesare The Sheepshearing, The Serpent-tamer in the Menagerie, The Wounded Lion, and The Apes holding Court, with the Apes Academy ^the last two, examples of his satirichumor, which are by no means wanting ia cleverness, but where he finds himself rivalling menfully able to contest the palm with him. We confess to caring very little for such subjects, evenwhen handled by men as skilful as our own Beard, who certainly has never been surpassed 300 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. in the genuineness of his humor by any artist at any time. We thinli we do best justice toMeyerheim by presenting our readers with this Lion and Lioness in Captivity, even thoughit may be admitted that photography could easily have produced a result so nearly similar ashardly to be distinguished from this, which is an actual study from life. Hardly to be dis-tinguished, we say
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