. Review of reviews and world's work . thatforms the predominating note in the latterpicture cannot be denied. The influence of the English school isstrong in Dorothy and her Sister, by Wil-liam Merritt Chase, the head of the child ofperfect grace and of dignified conception, asis the Portrait of Roosevelt by CeciliaBeaux. Too slight perhaps, but exquisite, asmall picture of a child by Louis Betts, dig-nified and simple in treatment a portrait ofGrover Cleveland by Wilton , because more alive and filled withmeaning, a Portrait of Mademoiselle Ger-ville-Reache as Carmen, by Irv
. Review of reviews and world's work . thatforms the predominating note in the latterpicture cannot be denied. The influence of the English school isstrong in Dorothy and her Sister, by Wil-liam Merritt Chase, the head of the child ofperfect grace and of dignified conception, asis the Portrait of Roosevelt by CeciliaBeaux. Too slight perhaps, but exquisite, asmall picture of a child by Louis Betts, dig-nified and simple in treatment a portrait ofGrover Cleveland by Wilton , because more alive and filled withmeaning, a Portrait of Mademoiselle Ger-ville-Reache as Carmen, by Irving In landscape Signor Benedetti remarks thefidelity of the Americans to the Scotch loveof clouded skies, far-off horizons, mists, veiledsunsets, and gray atmospheric effects, as inan autumn scene by Lathrop and in the Glory of Autumn, by William S. Thames—from London by Rangerrecalls Turner with its rich fantastic coloring,and another landscape of his—an autumnalvision too—is full of style. Daniel Garber. Copyright by J. E Purely. Boston JOHN S. SARGENT (The American portrait painter whose work has been highly praised in Italy) TN glancing over Signor Benedettis descrip-*? tion in the Nuova Antologia of the paint-ings now at Rome, we see again the familiardelight of oblique sun rays dying red thegolden grain of an Emile Claus harvest, therigid violent-toned silhouettes of a Hodlerfresco, the vital joyous animality in foliageof vivid greens of Anders Zorn, and the end-less solitude of pine forests amid tracklesssnow and miracles of iridescent frost—thewinter faery of Fjaestad. But it is an unexpected boon to see ourAmerican painters weighed in the same bal-ance and receiving unstinted praise. SignorBenedetti remarks on the solidity and eleva-tion of aim which characterize our exhibitas a whole, and commends emphatically thetendency to uphold the tradition of the Eng-lish and Scotch schools, in spite of thattemptation to follow ultra-modern technic
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