. Landscape and figure painters of America. chman. This does not imply that New-mans painting is anything other than individualand delightful in its own way, which it certainlyis, but in a measure it helps to indicate what ten-dencies determined the development of his art,what his ideals really were and how nearly heeventually succeeded in realizing them in hiscanvases. At the outbreak of the Civil War Newman wasemployed by the Confederate Government as adraughtsman and in 1864 he saw some active serviceas a member of the 16th Virginia Infantry. Howtrue it is that he is exclusively an idealist
. Landscape and figure painters of America. chman. This does not imply that New-mans painting is anything other than individualand delightful in its own way, which it certainlyis, but in a measure it helps to indicate what ten-dencies determined the development of his art,what his ideals really were and how nearly heeventually succeeded in realizing them in hiscanvases. At the outbreak of the Civil War Newman wasemployed by the Confederate Government as adraughtsman and in 1864 he saw some active serviceas a member of the 16th Virginia Infantry. Howtrue it is that he is exclusively an idealist and apainter of ideas, interested only in some personaland rare interpretation of religion, history or life,or some original creation of his own imagination,may be gathered from the fact that there is norecord in his art of his ever having been to Parisnor yet of his ever having been a soldier. For years after the surrender of Lee left him freeto return again to his easel he worked in a com-parative obscurity that we must presume was any-. Robert Loftin Newman : The Wandering MindCollection of the late Sir William Van Home, Montreal thing but unsatisfactory to one of his naturally re-tiring dispositions, especially as his pictures werehighly esteemed by a few men and women of culti-vation and taste who quietly collected them duringall this time. The interest and encouragement ofsuch purchasers as came to take away his canvases,fellow craftsmen like Wyatt Eaton and WilliamM. Chase, literary celebrities like Richard WatsonGilder, and connoisseurs like Sir William VanHome and Thomas B. Clarke must have meant in-finitely more to him than the popular approval ofa general public that was satisfied with the land-scape of the Hudson River School and the figurepaintings of J. G. Brown. Not until 1894, when he was sixty-seven yearsold, was any public, exhibition of Newmans workever held. At that time a collection of upward ofa hundred of his paintings, mostly loaned for theoccasion, was
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