Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . theremarkably successful general arrangement and individual posing ofthis splendid composition, and those who examined the paintingfound it equally attractive for its sweetness and tenderness of tone,its beautiful and well contrasted coloring, and the dignified bearingand well differentiated characterization of the individual figures. Alarge proportion of these are studies from authentic portraits. Tospecify the individuals portrayed would be to catalogue all theworthies, heroes, statesmen and distinguished women of the Revolu-tionary period. It was not assumed by t
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . theremarkably successful general arrangement and individual posing ofthis splendid composition, and those who examined the paintingfound it equally attractive for its sweetness and tenderness of tone,its beautiful and well contrasted coloring, and the dignified bearingand well differentiated characterization of the individual figures. Alarge proportion of these are studies from authentic portraits. Tospecify the individuals portrayed would be to catalogue all theworthies, heroes, statesmen and distinguished women of the Revolu-tionary period. It was not assumed by the painter that these couldhave all been actually present at one time at any one of the recep-tions given by Martha Washington, but these receptions did un-doubtedly include at some time or other all the people title of the Republican Court which is sometimes given to thispicture by biographers of Huntington may be open to criticismfrom the point of view that republics are not supposed to have 58 0) TJ -* o. courts, but this title still indicates the general subject matter of thepicture as not representing any individual historic event. It willbe observed that almost all of the foreground figures in full vieware ladies, and it is this arrangement which has enabled the artistto develop the color scheme of the painting in such varied andbeautiful wa}s; as their dresses are naturally far more effective fordecorative purposes than the more sober costumes of the these is the notable, but not very prominent figure of theDuke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria. This is the figure onGeneral Washingtons left hand. Daniel Huntington was born in 1816 and died in 1906. Hestudied under Morse and Inman, and spent two years in Florenceand Rome, beginning in 1839. From 1851 to 1858 he was in Eng-land. Otherwise, his life was spent in New York where he became theleading portrait painter of his generation. His high character^intelligence, social talents and long life gav
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