. Art and artists of our time. ner, the YoungLetter-writer, and a dozen others recalling Edouard Frere in their sentiment, but not at allin their execution. Mr. Johnson has also painted several subjects drawn from rural life inhis native Maine and at ISTantucket, where for several years past he has had a summer Sugar Camj)—Boiling-day and The Husking-bee were subjects found in Maine,while The Cranberry-jDickers (see page 245), is a page of life at Nantucket. Eastman Johnson is among the most esteemed of our portrait-painters, although his style is particu- III 264 ART AND ARTISTS OF O
. Art and artists of our time. ner, the YoungLetter-writer, and a dozen others recalling Edouard Frere in their sentiment, but not at allin their execution. Mr. Johnson has also painted several subjects drawn from rural life inhis native Maine and at ISTantucket, where for several years past he has had a summer Sugar Camj)—Boiling-day and The Husking-bee were subjects found in Maine,while The Cranberry-jDickers (see page 245), is a page of life at Nantucket. Eastman Johnson is among the most esteemed of our portrait-painters, although his style is particu- III 264 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. laiiy suited to men; and in tlie list of liis sitters are found many of tlie foremost business-men and politicians in New York. In painting women, Johnson has not been so successful,nor does he often attempt a task to which his style is not suited. Of the two brothers, H. S. Shepaed Mouwt and William S. Mount, both painters andmembers of the Academy, William is the one likeliest to be remembered, though the pictures. NO UNWELCOME GUEST. FROM THE PICTURE BY FRANK D. MILLET, BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSELL Ji; CO. by which he gained the public approbation are few in number and of small size. The twobrothers were the sons of a well-to-do Long Island farmer living at Setauket. Shepard wasborn in 1804 and William in 1806, but they both died in the same year, 1868. Shepard paintedgame and fish-pieces and still-life, with flowers, and occasional portraits. He was made an Aca-demician in 1831, his brother William in 1832, William Mount began with pictures of somepretension—full-length portraits, and religious subjects such as the Daughter of Jairus, but
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