Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ople, fishermen more availableas models, or old salts with more marvel-ous stories of wreck and rescue, more fog-horn keepers and light-house men, or men ofmore isolated lives and rugged is not more unique or Brittanymore poetic. Here are rural nooks for thelandscape-painter delightfully English in sen-timent. Here are beach and sea panoramas,stormy cloud-battles, or shimmering calm forthe marine-painter. Here are associations room. After the fair white canvas was spreadupon her floor, she painted a bor
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ople, fishermen more availableas models, or old salts with more marvel-ous stories of wreck and rescue, more fog-horn keepers and light-house men, or men ofmore isolated lives and rugged is not more unique or Brittanymore poetic. Here are rural nooks for thelandscape-painter delightfully English in sen-timent. Here are beach and sea panoramas,stormy cloud-battles, or shimmering calm forthe marine-painter. Here are associations room. After the fair white canvas was spreadupon her floor, she painted a border of rosesupon it, with sprays of roses in the carpet was the pride and astonishmentof her husbands parish. People came to thefront door to gaze, but refused to desecrate itssurface with their feet. Of the artists who now keep up the prestigewhich Mrs. Beecher conferred upon Easthamp-ton, Mr. C. Y. Turner is perhaps the mostprominent figure-painter. His large picture atthe Water-Color Exhibition of 1883, On theBeach at Easthampton, gives the society. INTERIOR OF THOMAS MORAN S STUDIO, EASTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND. and legends, old manuscripts and romancesfor the antiquary, with Chippendale side-boards, blue china, and colonial spinning-wheels for the collector. Here are costumesof the last century and fascinating faces for thefigure-painter; and here are salt sea-breezesand sunshine for all. Nor is the artistic im-pulse a new mania for Easthampton. Shecan lay claim to being the first in this coun-try to apply original decorative art to houseinteriors. The story has been told before,but will bear retelling, how in 1799 youngMrs. Lyman Beecher spun a ball of cottonand had it woven into a carpet for her best phase; but Mr. Turner finds another fieldhere, and one in which we like him is a son of the peaceful city whose streets still reecho the names of the trees of theforest. The simplicity and gentleness, the purity andsweet primness of the Friends touch hishea
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