. Art and artists of our time. rtistshead, and they are as free of logical responsi-bility and as wanting in head or tail as any thatbother onr wits in Alices Wonderland. Indeed,Mr. Church and Mr. Carroll would make a first-rate team, and we wonder they have never beenhitched to one another by some enterprising publisher. Mr. Church is a clever draughtsman,with a not too formal pencil, and he enjoys using a palette set with pale and delicate pictures are often pleasant to look at, even if one does not care to spend time in interpreting their meaning. (See page 285.) It is a long leap
. Art and artists of our time. rtistshead, and they are as free of logical responsi-bility and as wanting in head or tail as any thatbother onr wits in Alices Wonderland. Indeed,Mr. Church and Mr. Carroll would make a first-rate team, and we wonder they have never beenhitched to one another by some enterprising publisher. Mr. Church is a clever draughtsman,with a not too formal pencil, and he enjoys using a palette set with pale and delicate pictures are often pleasant to look at, even if one does not care to spend time in interpreting their meaning. (See page 285.) It is a long leap from the older portrait-painters, with their formal devotion to the oneduty of getting a likeness, to the younger brood of to-day, who think, or seem to think, thatthe first thing they have to look after is the making of a striking picture. As for the like-ness, it shall be as God pleases. After Stuarts day came John Wesley Jarvis, Chester Harding, Henry Inman, Francis Alexander, and those two Dromios of portrait-painting, III. HENRY INMAN. 288 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Samuel Waldo and William Jewitt, partners in many and many a portrait preserving thelikenesses of grandfathers and grandmothers in the homes and hearts of their descendants,where a Waldo and Jewitt, if not as artistic a seal of respectable ancestry as a Copley, aMalbone, or a Stuart, is at least a good material guarantee. Could the portraits of the six menwe have mentioned be collected, the Americans of to-day would look upon the faces of almostall the men and Avomen distinguished in the society of America fifty or sixty years ago; butit is not pleasant to reflect to how different a bod}^ of spectators such a collection wouldappeal; how little is known of the men and women of the old stock in this day, when anAmerican, born of American parents and grandparents, is lost in the mob of foreign-borncitizens. To-day, the art of portrait-painting has changed its character—let us trust for the timebeing only. Peop
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