. Art and artists of our time. lto them; and that if they must, for any reason, engage in it, the art-side is to them the solecompensation for the distastefulness of the work. In fact, there is no one of these youngermen—we speak under correction—who would care to be known as a portrait-painter have all of them done as excellent work in other fields—in landscape, in genre, in still-life, in the ideal. Mr. John S. Sargent is one of the group who is perhaps best known by hisportraits, but he has done much interesting work in other directions, and not a few of hisportraits will be value
. Art and artists of our time. lto them; and that if they must, for any reason, engage in it, the art-side is to them the solecompensation for the distastefulness of the work. In fact, there is no one of these youngermen—we speak under correction—who would care to be known as a portrait-painter have all of them done as excellent work in other fields—in landscape, in genre, in still-life, in the ideal. Mr. John S. Sargent is one of the group who is perhaps best known by hisportraits, but he has done much interesting work in other directions, and not a few of hisportraits will be valued as painting long after the names of their originals shall have beenforgotten. He is one of the most uncertain and disappointing of the younger men whoseunquestioned talent has given them a commanding place in the public appreciation. What-ever he exhibits becomes at once a centre of interest, and is discussed with energy, often withheat, alike by artists and laymen: the former, in most cases, carried away by enthusiasm. o ? < < 5 DO C3 Q Lil enI t- < ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 289 for the dash, the spontaneity, the sparkling life of the painters handling; the latter amused,vexed, indignant, at the ugliness, the awkwardness, the fantastic defiance of convention,shown by the treatment of the subject. Whatever may be the final verdict on Mr. Sargentsmerit as an artist, the possession of certain high qualities will never be denied him. He is
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