. Art and artists of our time. ng his own edu-cation and practice, visiting Holland, Italy,and Spain, studying the works of the masters,and bringing home copies of important pict-ures— all the time himself producing, pro-ducing, showing an activity and a facility un-usual vnth our artists. Although still a youngman, just turned of forty, no artist who canbe named among our Americans exercisesso wide-spread an influence among the younger men as Chase. Unselfish, generous,and broad-minded, full of enthusiasm for his art, he is ever ready to help those who ask hisj)rofessional advice; he encourag
. Art and artists of our time. ng his own edu-cation and practice, visiting Holland, Italy,and Spain, studying the works of the masters,and bringing home copies of important pict-ures— all the time himself producing, pro-ducing, showing an activity and a facility un-usual vnth our artists. Although still a youngman, just turned of forty, no artist who canbe named among our Americans exercisesso wide-spread an influence among the younger men as Chase. Unselfish, generous,and broad-minded, full of enthusiasm for his art, he is ever ready to help those who ask hisj)rofessional advice; he encourages the down-hearted by his own buoyancy of spirits, and byhis example of hard work and fidelity to his own convictions does as much as any three mento aid and cheer the band of earnest workers who, under infinite discouragements, are tryingto raise a little seed of art in an uncongenial soil. Mr. Chaae has painted many portraits, figure-subjects, genre pieces, and still-life subjects. As a portrait-painter he is in great III. WILLIAM M. the drawing by Eajon. 284 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. request, and of late lie has opened a new vein in pictures combining landscape and figurewhere the scene is laid in the Central Park in New York and in Prospect Park, copy one of these pictures by permission of Mr. Knoedler. It represents a daily scene inCentral Park in the summer-time—children amusing themselves with their boats by one ofthe smaller lakes. (See page 281.) An early picture by Mr. Chase, a lady in a riding-habit, Readj^ for a Ride, is in the possession of the Union League Club of New York City. Butthe list of his pictures is too long even for selection; on a former page will be found his verycharacteristic portrait of Mr. Whistler. (See page 257.) A portrait of the late Peter Cooper,by far the best that was ever taken of him, and a striking example of Mr. Chases art, wasdestroyed by fire some years ago. Edwin H. Blashfield was born in New York in 18
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