Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 6

6 EARLY AMERICAN ART ON' EXHIBIT Portraits, Miniatures and Silver on View at Na- tional Museum. BY IFILA MECHLIN One of the most notable exhibitions ever held in Washington is that of early Ameriean portraits, miniatures and silver opened with a private vic ption last eve ning in the Museum, Tenth he aus es of v of Art. This ex- be on view to the january 3, in 1:30 to 4:30 1:30 to 430, portruits, an equal wrought and Nations the hibdtion. public f clusive and on w Sundays week dave from than 1 ies and es of silver inters man tary d N treasurer, Fred elet Gerry Me- Powell can Philiips, Mrs D Corcoran Com- tss Leila Porter R. Mrs. Wil W. M. Grin- 0, Migs Sarnh R. and Mrs. David A. Reed. Committee on mimatures, Miss Helen Amory Ernst, chairman; Mrs. Willlam F. Wharton, Mre. John Hill M . Mr=. J. Madison Taylor, . Mrs. Wil Alian Giffen, Hoes. Mrs. Orme Wil nittee on silver, Maj. chairman French, “hn Henry <, Luke Vin- Rreckinridge Miles White, jr. m Penn ( Mr: Lynch Luqu Henry L son, jr. Gist Bl Mrs. J cent ngs From Homes. the most part on homes and restdents of this \ Gallerv, the Art, the United various depart- rent have also and :xcep- come b have been Waned city. The Corcor tional Gellery States Capitol ments of tt Zenerously rom out tionally and made an by lection painters. wil « 1530, So complete is represer tion that not more than five the known early American painters are not represented. Fur more, in every instance the painters are represented in s colle their best, the pictures shoy been chosen by an expert of the Metropolitan Museum, ork, who generc acted as advisor to the subcommittee on por traits| Practically the whole story of early American portraiture is set forth in this exhibition. There are no less than nine paintings by John ton Copley, born in Bo: i 1737, whose works are now highiy esteemed for their that their ownership is sidered com- monly among New England families a badge of aristocr ive of these portraits have been lent by D. Copley Amory of Boston, who is now residing in Washing! d de scendant of the pa four others have been lent by are portraits of and Codr Iy we H. B. 3 nted before Cople: this country In 17 settled in 1 there he rematned until his death in 1813 Met West In London When Copley reached London he found established there an American painter from Philadelphia, Benjamin West, who, tradition has it, learned from the Indians how to mix colo and had attained considerable suc cess in painting before seeking knowl edge and patronage abroad 1 1863, prising as it may seem. this un stored early American artist _not only won the patronage of the King of England, George 111, but was one of the founders of the Roval Acade nd its nd president n this exhibition are three 1 by this remarkable early painter., who not only wo abroad but helped innumer early Amerfcan painters me road. as teacher, friend The West paintings are he,” lent by the Cor- coran Gallery of Art; a self-portrait— d a very fine one—belonging to the tional Gallery, and a portratt of Mrs. Monroe lent b Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes. was Glibert Stuart, who after years of successtul study and work in Lon- don and in Dublin returned to the United States to paint Washinzton portrait. Of all the early American portrait nters Gilbert Stuar doubtedly stands first, and on portraits of Washington was sold in Now Y¢ ago for than $7. re 14 portraits by Gllbert Stuart in this collection; three are members of the Shippen family—Chief Justice Shippen, omas Lee Shippen and Dr. Willlam Shippen, jr.; another is a portrait of John Randoiph when but a lad. Still others are of George A. Otis and Archbishop Carroll Assoclated with the name of Stuart invariably is that of Charles Willson Peale, born in Queen Anne County, Md., in 1741, whose brother, sons and daughters all attained distinction as portrait painters. There are seven paintings by the elder Peale in this exhibition, among which is a portrait of his brother, James Peale, who is well represented in the miniature sec tion, and a portrait of Mrs. James Peale, both lent by Herbert Pratt. Mr. Pratt has also lent a portrait of Washington by Peale, which some de- clare to be even a more satisfactory likeness of our first President than the works of Gilbert Stuart. Peale Portraits. Among the Rembrandt Peale por- traits are likenesses of Mrs. John Brice and children, loaned by Arthur T. Brice; of Andrew Jackson, from the Nattonal Gallery collection, and a por- trait of Willlam Pinkney, loaned by Mrs. McCoy Jones. John Trumbuil, bered, attained th the Revolutionary W.af and was a member of Washington's staff. It was he who painted several of the pic tures in the rotunda of the Capitol and who was president, in 1825, of an American Academy of Art in New York. His portrait of Mrs. William Pinkney has becn loaned by Mrs. Mc- Coy Jones. Henry Cabot Lodge has loaned Trumbull's portrait of Alexan- der Hamilton and Mrs. O. H. Ernst his portrait of Nathaniel Tracy. Tt was Trumbull's testiness which led to the establishment of the Na- tional Academy of the Arts of Design, of which Samuel F. B. Morse was Jirst presideng, Morse is best known it will be remem- rgrT- +* colonel ih Included | = i One of West's most talented pupils Upper: Group of early American sil- ver. Lower, left: Mrs. Peabody, miniature by J. C. Copley, lent by Joseph Stew- art. Lower, right: Portrait of Stephen Van Rensselaer, painter unknown, lent by James Carroll Frazer. as the inventor of the telegraph, but his portrait of M ha King, loan ed by Mrs. Nichola Luquer, in this exhibition, testifies admirably to his | great gift as an artist | John Neagle of Philadelphia, an in- teresting personality, who is said to have painted the best portrait of Gil bert Stuart from life, and of whose | work a comprehensive exhibition was lately heid at the Pennsylvania Acad emy of the Fine Arts, is twice repre- sented In this collection—once by a chaming portralt of little Miss Kate THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER G, siven oo | R R R R R N B N R BN S R N B E N S two features that mean everything in selecting UBJECTS AT PORTRAIT, MINIATURE AND 1925—PART 1. 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Dunlop. and again by a vigorous portrait of Col. Richard M. Johnson, loaned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Harding Portraits. There is a_certain kinship betwecn the work of Neagle and Chester Hard ing, the latter a rough backwoodsman who took to painting as a trade developed into one of the Lest of early American artists. It is inte ing to compare his portrait of John Randolph, lent by the Corcoran Gal {lery of Art, painted in later life, with | that of the' boy John Randolph paint led by Stuart, and to the honor of Harding be it said that his work well stands the test. There are five excel lent Harding portraits in this exhibi tion. Other painters represented i John Hesselius, earliest of all; Sharp Matthew Pratt, Joseph Badger, Ralph Earl, John Wollaston, among the later painte Dunlap, Jarvis, Jouett, Waldo and Wertmuller. “Miniature in portraitur | Rosenthal. the puinter of Philadelphia | hus said. “is at once the most difficul{ and beautiful of the arts, and few are | endowed with the unusual talent nec. | essary 1o create on ivory the ess t a fine miniature.” Yet th | some fairy gift talent, many ained distinction this field fn America in the early d { Possibly the demand called forth the | jtalent. Pride of family created a de e for portraiture e only of securing a portrait was to have it | awn or painted. Probably never be. -omprehensive a collection ican miniatures been got s that now on view in the | National Gallery of Art This collection has come not only | {from local homes and collectors, but from owners in Boston, New York, ! Philadelphta and Baltimore. Fifty | three miniature painters are repre- | | sented therein. Malbone, of all the | American miniature painters sur-| sed by none, is represented by no ! than 14 examples. In the portrait | section there is a portrait of Malbone by himself. Other Miniatures. Next to Malbone in distinction stood, | perhaps, James Peale, of whose work | there are 25 examples. Raphael Peale | is represented once; Rembrandt Peale eight times. There are seven minia- | tures by Sully. There is one quaint {and interesting miniature in wax of Gen. Abercrombie, loaned by his granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas Hamil- {ton Wilson, which is the work of | Patience Wright, who was born in Bordentown, N. J., in 1725, and Is set ;IIOWII in the History of American one of the earliest, if not | . to model in this country. | atures by John Trumbull and one by Benjamin West a portrait of himself, the last loane. by Mrs. John Hill Morgan of New York. There are two interesting miniatures by St. Memin. There are three Gilbert Stuart miniatures which are great rarieties. There are several by Malbone’s colleague, Charles Fraser, whose works, in quality and number, some say, reached his own. There are no less than 11 miniatures by Robert Field and four by Dunlap, to say nothing of six by Copley—one, by the way, a portrait of Mrs. Paul Revere, wife of the patriot, and one of Alex ander Hamilton in boyhood. It fs a remarkable showing. In his preface to the catalogue of the Clearwater collection of silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, R. T. H. Halsey : “Our knowledge of the beauty nd the f ination or colonial silver is but a recent one. Scarce two decades ago the fact that our country in the early days nurtured a remarkable set of workers in the precious metals was practically un- known.” A book on “Paul Revere and His Engraving,” by Willian Lor- ing Andrews, turned attention in this direction. ‘The possibility of other gifted siiversmiths gradually dawned upon the consclousness of collectors. | In 1906 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts assembled and set forth a mag- nificent exhibition of colonial sflver— a collection, however, which in size and in diversity of pieces, scarcely excelled the present showing at the National Gallery of Art. TIn 1911 = showing of early American church silver was held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and these exhibitions and their catalogues have done much to create a widespread interest in the work of these early craftsmen and to establish a high value for the silver which they wrought. Rare Silver Contributed. To this exhibition in the National Gallery of Art the leading collectors of American silver in this country have contributed most generously Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer of Boston, for 1de in | Albert | i 1 |1s inordinately fond of candy of any |€nt knows that as long as a | shape. JUST AVERAGE BOY” IS TYPE FOUND AT ITS BEST IN “Y” HERE oisy and Wild, Never Still Unless Asleep, But Re- sponds Quickly to Training in Gymnasium and Swimming Pool, Secretary Fuller Says. If the bovs | ¥ C. tions and angles, a you “aver: membership of about 700 the boys' department of the| A. was cut into cross-sec- | anal from various | it be chosen | 3 who would! the following qualifications rding to Earl B. Fuller, secretary boys artment is ars old, weighs aroun dej about 59 90 pounds, | size and contents, has neve been known to remain quietly in one| position for more than 3 minutes e sleept can run seconds and make a running track in th vards—in about the gym to the loves to n and canj make 50 feet with the Australian crawl, prefers boys' serials of ad- venture to the classics and devours| volumes of the former on rainy days, | prefers base ball and basket ball over all other games in the gym- sfum and talks at the top of his voice when excited gnd is a pretty v inimal generally, but responds | re: to training » are 80 or 70 boys under game room instance, has loaned her entire collec tion of between 40 and 50 pieces, rep resenting the work of Paul Revere. Hollis French of Boston, whose col lection has been on view for some time at the Cleveland Museurn of Art, has loaned an equal number of pleces by various distinguished makers. | From New York have come the col- lections of Luke Vincent Lockwood and Francis P. Garvan, both justly famous. From Baltimore has come a magnificent group, chiefly of the work of Southern silversmiths, loaned by Mrs. Miles White, jr.; and from Washington are groups from the col- lections of Maj. Gist Blair, Mrs. Joh Henry Gibbons, and Mr. and Mr: Breckinridge Long The specimens shown finest quality. There tanka cups, cans, tasters, spoon: ladles, porringers and other objects, ach showing beautiful design and fine workmanship. The makers worked in New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis 'nd Washington. Among the famous names are those of John Burt, John Coney, Cary Dunn, the Edward: George Hanners, , a4 great grand- son of Anne Hutchinson; Jacob and Nathaniel Hurd, William Moulton, Peter Quintard, Joseph and Nathaniel Richardson, Nicholas Roosevelt, Peter Van Dyke, greatest of New York sil versmiths: Chalmers of Annapolis vehme of Baltimore, and Barry of timore, who engraved the plates the first money used in the col- onies; to name only a few An elaborate fllustrated catalogue of the exhibition has heen issued, con- taining brief articles on early Ameri- can portrait painters, on miniature painting, and on early American sil- versmiths, contributed by expert: biographical data on the painters, de. scriptions of the silver, and a list of the sllversmiths represented, with their dates and the places in which they worked. Lecture on Stuart. are of the are tea sets, Under the auspices of the Washing- ton Society of the Fine Arts an fllus- trated lecture on “Gilbert Stuart and His Contemporaries” will be given in the auditorium of the Central High School Wednesday evening by Her bert Richard Cro: During the period of the exhibition members of the committee will at times be in atiendance, and it is hoped that arrangements will be made those desiring to identify s in the way of early American silver will be given expert assistance. Such an exhibition as this goes far not only toward increasing the general appreciation of tbe works of our early American artists and craftsmen, but also toward evidencing to the good taste and the culture of these early years of age in the boys' department now, and about 100 over 16, but the average age is 131, Fuller, and the v. boys' department E rainy afternoon finds it difficult to hear himself think, for each of the bovs downstairs in the game room, upstairs in the gym or the pool, is keeping up a continuous chatter. But it is healthy chatter, and every par- oy s e, he Is out of mischief. Joks, and use them from the boys’ library at the rate of about 400 a month. The preference is for stories which go under such entranec- ng titles as “John Smith and His Airplane ““John Smith on the Ranch, ‘John Smith, out Leader,” ete., although some take home Cooper, Dickens, Scott and even Shakespeare The yverage hoy who comes to the Y. M. C. A. for the first time is not afraid the water and learns to swim in six lessons. But before he is a qualified swimmer, he must do the ustralian crawl for 50 feet, and that's no easy task. Other standards are set for him, and all gymnasium ind swimming pool recreation is un. der expert supervision. The boys are divided into groups, which at stated r entering of the "Y" making a nof Boys love | times during the week are put through ular physical training courses. In addition, many of them belong to the Bible classes conducted in the boys' department, where they are trained in religious leadership. JAIL DEATH PROBED BY COUNTY BOARD Report as to Whether Cold in Prison Caused Pneumonia Expected Tuesday. Special Dispateh to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 5. —A report is expected next Tuesday n investigation by the Prince s surrounding the death of e Roberts of Hyattsville in the Bladensburg jail a week ago. The inquify was asked by the County Improvement and Protective Association, which adopted a resolu- tion at its meeting last Monday night stating that word had been received that Roberts was arrested November 22 and placed in jail, that the jail was without heat whlie the weather was bitterly cold and damp and that he contracted pneumonia, from which he died November 28, leaving a widow and two children without support. Members of the American Legion are expected to attend the session of the county commissioners Tuesday in connection with the case, Roberts having been an ex-service man. HELD IN PLANE THEFT. Second Man Must Stand Trial for Taking Aircraft. MIAMI, Fla., December 5 (#).—Ed- mund Emerson, who has been in Miami for several weeks, is sched- uled to stand trial with George Dauf- kirch in New York an January 6 for the alleged theft of three Wright air- plane machines from Mitchel Field, Long Island, on October 24. 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