. What pictures to see in America. guarantee that it was amost valuable example of Titians art, for ofmodern artists probably no one was more fa-miliar with the great Italian than Lenbach,the famous German portrait painter of Mu-nich (see page 91). Lenbach, when a youngman, was specially noted for his knowledge ofthe art of the old masters and for his superbcopies of their works, particularly of this por-trait of Philip the Second, of which he madeseveral copies. We regret exceedingly that nophotograph was available for an illustration,so we must forego a reproduction of this valu-able portrai
. What pictures to see in America. guarantee that it was amost valuable example of Titians art, for ofmodern artists probably no one was more fa-miliar with the great Italian than Lenbach,the famous German portrait painter of Mu-nich (see page 91). Lenbach, when a youngman, was specially noted for his knowledge ofthe art of the old masters and for his superbcopies of their works, particularly of this por-trait of Philip the Second, of which he madeseveral copies. We regret exceedingly that nophotograph was available for an illustration,so we must forego a reproduction of this valu-able portrait. Quite naturally we turn next to the worksof a native of Cincinnati, Robert FrederickBlum (1857-1903). After his death in 1903,his sister Mrs. Haller assisted in collecting alarge number of his paintings and studies forthe museum. The addition of these represen-tative works by Blum was an acquisition ofimmense value to the students and lovers ofart. Mr. Blum was less than twenty when hesettled in New York City, and almost imme-. 3S o oo 03?J C •^ a V 05 05 o CINCINNATI 299 diately success came to him. He was a man ofkeen perceptive powers, alive to the merits ofothers, ready to be influenced, but never domi-nated by the genius of other artists. He mademany journeys to Europe and one to results of these visits are seen in the sub-jects of his paintings, but not unduly in hismanner of work. One of the most attractive of his pictures isthe Venetian Lace Makers (Fig. 199). Sotrue to life is this group of young women gos-siping over their pillows, as their deft fingersmanipulate the thread and pins, that wescarcely believe it is only a picture before many times have we stood in the door-way of some lace room back of San Marco,Venice, and watched just such a scene as the sun stealing in through the cracks inthe Venetian blind and boldly pouring throughthe open door and window. And how it bringsout the eagerness of the faces and plays withthe hair and spa
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