. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . et three inches in height, nobly proportioned, andhis portrait in the city library will indicate how it was that he, withhis air of Natures nobleman, won so well in life. Mr. Harding had a pupil in William S. Elwell, whose careeras artist was cut short in his prime by paralysis though he con-tinued to paint throughout his life, producing beautiful miniaturelandscapes. He learned in the school wherein the painter madehis own palette, and used a score or two of colors, mixing them ashe chose, and there was a fashion of delicacy and refin
. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . et three inches in height, nobly proportioned, andhis portrait in the city library will indicate how it was that he, withhis air of Natures nobleman, won so well in life. Mr. Harding had a pupil in William S. Elwell, whose careeras artist was cut short in his prime by paralysis though he con-tinued to paint throughout his life, producing beautiful miniaturelandscapes. He learned in the school wherein the painter madehis own palette, and used a score or two of colors, mixing them ashe chose, and there was a fashion of delicacy and refinement whichcritics of the Hudson River School have characterized as feeble-ness. Yet if one of these critics should look upon Asher Durandsgreat mountain view in the Metropolitan Museum, or Frederick Cotopaxi in the Lenox library galleries, he would behard put to it to tell where the work could be improved. This isonly to say that Mr. Elwell painted beauty in the way in which hecould with his limited opportunities behold it, and was to his last. CHESTER HARDING From the Portrait painted by himself
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