. St. Nicholas [serial] . rs. Now that we are reaching the end of our force that has influenced countless other painters, survey of painting, we may look back and seeBoth owe much to the influence of Velasquez; that the progress has been for the most part aSargent also to that of Franz Hals, while Whis- series of renewals, of men carrying forward and 1094 HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. I095 farther what they had received from others. Florence, combining the charms of sky and hills The most notable example of this in the whole with the wonders of art in the galleries and the story is that of Raphael, w
. St. Nicholas [serial] . rs. Now that we are reaching the end of our force that has influenced countless other painters, survey of painting, we may look back and seeBoth owe much to the influence of Velasquez; that the progress has been for the most part aSargent also to that of Franz Hals, while Whis- series of renewals, of men carrying forward and 1094 HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. I095 farther what they had received from others. Florence, combining the charms of sky and hills The most notable example of this in the whole with the wonders of art in the galleries and the story is that of Raphael, who has been called advantages of intellectual and artistic society. the Prince of Borrowers, and yet his work Accordingly, when Sargent arrived in Paris he is unique. It is not the search after or dis- was not only a skilful draftsman and painter, covery of new ideas that makes an original the result of his study of the Italian masters, man, so much as his ability to reclothe the but also,— which has had perhaps an even. THE MISSES HUNTER. FROM A PORTRAIT BY JOHN S. SARGENT. old with some newness of meaning out of hisown ideas. When Sargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he was much above the average ofpupils in attainment. He had been born inFlorence in 1856, the son of cultivated parents;his father, a Massachusetts gentleman, havingpractised medicine in Philadelphia and home life was filled with refinement, andoutside of it were the beautiful influences of greater influence upon his career,— young as hewas, he already had a refined and cultivatedtaste. This at once stood him in good stead,for his new master, Carolus-Duran, though avery skilful painter and excellent teacher, wasotherwise a man of rather showy and shallowqualities. He, too, had studied in Italy, butlater in Spain, and it was chiefly upon the lessonslearned from Velasquez that he had foundedhis own brilliant method. This method Sar- 1096 HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. [Oct. gent, being a youth of re
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