Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . atic profession was well representedin Mr. Jeffersons collection. In the receptionroom hung a portrait of Macready in the char-acter of William Tell, by Henry Inman. Onaccount of its dramatic pose, this painting hadbeen named Tragedy. The head, with hairdisarranged, and flashing eyes, is slightly turnedto the right. The neck is bare. A white tunicshows above a garment of darker colour andover the left shoulder is thrown a heavy furrobe. A portrait of Calve as Carmen hung in themain hall. This painting was by a youngAmerican artist in whom Mr. Jeffer
Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . atic profession was well representedin Mr. Jeffersons collection. In the receptionroom hung a portrait of Macready in the char-acter of William Tell, by Henry Inman. Onaccount of its dramatic pose, this painting hadbeen named Tragedy. The head, with hairdisarranged, and flashing eyes, is slightly turnedto the right. The neck is bare. A white tunicshows above a garment of darker colour andover the left shoulder is thrown a heavy furrobe. A portrait of Calve as Carmen hung in themain hall. This painting was by a youngAmerican artist in whom Mr. Jefferson hadtaken a great interest, even suggesting that hetake the name of Eugene, which name issigned to the picture of Calve. The great primadonna was pleased to sit for her portrait on ac-count of her friendship for Mr. Jefferson. Shestands with her head thrown back over hershoulder, one hand upon her hip, the otherraised to her neck. Deep red roses cluster lowin her falling hair, and the soft fringes of herSpanish costume are most FAC-SIMILE OF WRITING UPON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOKPRESENTED TO MR. JEFFERSON BY JOSEF ISRAELS JOSEPH JEFFERSON 47 rAmong the portraits which Mr. Jeffersonprized was one of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,by Gainsborough, painted about the time hewrote The Rivals. When Mr. Jefferson re-vived Sheridans comedy, he took the liberty ofbringing the text up to date and writing a newtag (the lines ending the play), as some ofthe characters, as well as the lines of the comedy,were much out of date. Sheridan wrote the playwhen he was but twenty years of age. enjoyment of the wit and brilliancyof the dialogue was greatest in the lines spokenby David in the letter scene, where he saysto Bob Acres, If you dont want to disgraceyour ancestors, you had better keep out of theircompany as long as you can. A painting of Kemble, by Harlow, showedthe youthful actor seated at a table in an attitudeof repose; the book in front of him suggests thathe has be
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