. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . lity. It was generally thought that he paintedladies best. He was constantly cracking jokes and saying witticisms whichmade them laugh; and, consequently, you will rarely see a serious portraitof a lady by Inman. His portraits of old men, determined, solemn old men,who could not be moved by his drollery, were really his best—e. g., the Bishop Moore, of Virginia, in full Episcopal robes, expresses the dignity andgrace of an old gentleman, and is replete with spirit and power. It nowhangs in the vestry-room of Trini
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . lity. It was generally thought that he paintedladies best. He was constantly cracking jokes and saying witticisms whichmade them laugh; and, consequently, you will rarely see a serious portraitof a lady by Inman. His portraits of old men, determined, solemn old men,who could not be moved by his drollery, were really his best—e. g., the Bishop Moore, of Virginia, in full Episcopal robes, expresses the dignity andgrace of an old gentleman, and is replete with spirit and power. It nowhangs in the vestry-room of Trinity Chapel, in Twenty-sixth Street, NewYork. Bishop Whites venerable head is well worth looking at. Inmanmade several copies of this picture, and one of the best of them is owned byMrs. Rogers, of Twentieth Street, a sister of Dr. Muhlenberg. The portraitof Mr. Rawle, of Philadelphia, is a masterpiece: the pallid warmth and trans-lucency of a studious old mans face are admirably rendered. A head of Chal-mers in the Lenox Library—Mr. Lenox is an admirer of Dr. Chalmers—is. 1CHABOD CRANE AND KATR1NA. From a Painting by Daniel Huntington. p. 107. DANIEL IIUNTINQTON. 107 also an important work. It was painted when Inman was in Great , Wordsworth, and other celebrities, sat for him at about the sametime. His self-confidence and push were largely developed, and in himwere very pleasant. Before going to England he tried to get orders for por-traits of distinguished men in that country. A good story is told in this con-nection. A New-Yorker, to whom Inman had applied for an order, at lengthgave him one for a portrait of a certain nobleman, Lord Codrington by received the commission gladly, but, of course, made no memorandumof the name. The Lord-Chancellor of England at that time was named Cod-dington (or something else very much like Codrington), and in the presenceof the lord-chancellor appeared Inman, with a request to be allowed to paint a portrait of
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