. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. KMHKRS n\ FAS IM.\N JOHNSON Norwegian Peasant Architecture painter, as it did so many others. Couture wasone of the great technical painters of the nineteenthcentury, and in a way a forerunner of Manet, andhis influence was far felt. Knaus painting in theLuxembourg shows this influence most strongly,and in America two of our most individual painters,William Moiris Hunt and Wyatt Eaton, weredirect followers of the Couture style as far asbrushwork is concerned. Also Eastman Johnsonfell under the same spell, but not immediate
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. KMHKRS n\ FAS IM.\N JOHNSON Norwegian Peasant Architecture painter, as it did so many others. Couture wasone of the great technical painters of the nineteenthcentury, and in a way a forerunner of Manet, andhis influence was far felt. Knaus painting in theLuxembourg shows this influence most strongly,and in America two of our most individual painters,William Moiris Hunt and Wyatt Eaton, weredirect followers of the Couture style as far asbrushwork is concerned. Also Eastman Johnsonfell under the same spell, but not immediately, andrather through reminiscence of what he had seenduring his Parisian stay ten or twelve years Mount Vernon series, his Indian pictures,his genre paintings, like The Old Kentucky Homeand his early war pictures, are painted in a stylethat reflects the study of the old masters, particularlyin the sketches that are thin in the shadows butsolid and even quite bold in the remainder of. the picture. His finished canvases, however, showthe characteristics of the period ; though their colouris soft and harmonious, and of a wider range thanthe greyness of the Diisseldorf palette, the textureis rather smooth. It was not before the seventiesthat his style in the Nantucket series, his charmingchildren pictures, and his ambitious Milton and hisDaughters, gained in breadth; he was always anexcellent draughtsman and an interesting colourist,but now also his touch became brisker, more granu-lar and vigorous. After that he steadily advanced,and in the eighties and early nineties he technicallykept pace with the younger men, who on their returnfrom Paris and Munich had founded the Society ofAmerican Artists. The most noteworthy picturesof this period are his Girl with Sleigh (1879), CornHuskers (exhibited in Paris 1878—79), and hisPortrait of Mrs. Eastman Johnson (1888). Theyare painted in a firm broad manner. Hisformer passion for accessories and inci-dental subordinate parts
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