. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . e, for example, in the Society of AmericanArtists Exhibition last month, was high art, yet almost everybody seemed tolike it. Mr. Weirs portrait also contains certain elements of popularity whichcommend it to the common throng. The greater number of visitors to theAcademy, doubtless, are struck by it and pleased with it. We wish that theycould be induced to study it under the direction of a competent would learn excellently well the nature and the value of a really artisticportrait. The earlier work
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . e, for example, in the Society of AmericanArtists Exhibition last month, was high art, yet almost everybody seemed tolike it. Mr. Weirs portrait also contains certain elements of popularity whichcommend it to the common throng. The greater number of visitors to theAcademy, doubtless, are struck by it and pleased with it. We wish that theycould be induced to study it under the direction of a competent would learn excellently well the nature and the value of a really artisticportrait. The earlier works of Mr. Albert F. Bellows were painted in oils; thelater ones almost exclusively in water-colors. His ancestors came to thiscountry from England in 1034. When sixteen years old he was apprenticedto a lithographer in Boston. After a course of instruction in Europe, hepainted The First Pair of Boots, The City Cousins, The Sorrows ofBoyhood, and other geiwe pictures, and in 1861 was elected an 1865 he crossed the Atlantic again, and spent many months in the study. A BY-WAV NEAR TORQUAY, a Painting bv Albert F. Bellows. p. 158. ALBERT F. BELLOWS. I59 of the English water-colorists, making sketches of farmhouses, hamlets, andcountry lanes, which he used in such pictures as A By-way near Torquay, inDevonshire and Devonshire Cottages. He is one of the principal con-tributors to the regular exhibitions of the American Water-Color studio was in Boston, and is now in New York. A recent biographer inAppletons Art Journal writes: Mr. Bellows has been a constant and largeexhibitor in the New York exhibitions, and probably no class of subjects findsso much favor in the eyes of connoisseurs and the public as that presented byhim. To the recent exhibition of the American Society of Painters in Water-Colors he sent several charming pictures, two of the most important of whichare engraved here, both illustrating English rural scenes. To many admirersof
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