The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1899, Page 9

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 ADVERTISEMENTS. | [ | .‘00. 6006EEUECIP096000 Judge Lacombe of the United States Circu't Court Fines Daylight Incan- descent Gas Lamp Co. $500.00 for contempt, in continuing to infringe Welshach Co.'s Patents NOBILITY SEEKS SERVICE AMONG THE VOLUNTEERS A Real Count in the | Forty-Sixth. LEOPOLD THUN OF AUSTRIA| e MADE A FIRST LIEUTENANT BY | b4 3 THE PRESIDENT’'S FAVOR. Judge Lacombe says: ZEEGa | “There has bzen a shifty He Has Reported for Duty With the | cffort at evasion of th Recruits Pending His Assign- ment to His Command in the Islands. R S Court’s orders, but, as the tficers of the company acted, as they say, under advice o counsel, they will not be punished by personal mpris- onment.” antry has just n of having a Count unt—added to its it is Leopold Thun, cavalry, and he st lieutenant in | antry by virtue of an | the President 1 is not in the American ith. He is there to see d at the request of his position of the Count is TO THE PUBLIC: HOW THE TRANSPORTS OF TO-DAY ARE PROVISIONED HEN Uncle Sam had his lit- tie difference with Spain the greatest difficulty was the get- ting of the men to the seat of war. Vessels were procured after some little delay, but the majority of them were not fitted to carry troops ard the result was much inconvenience and considerable bad language from the soldlers. The carrying of fresh meat was almost imp ible and the result was the “embalmed beef” scandal. That state of affairs has now been done away with and the soldier on his voyage to the Philippines fares as well as he did in barracks and gets the same allowanse of fresh meat. Here is the requisition of Chief Steward R. Pfeif- fer for f h provisions for the trans- port Warren, which sails next Thursday for Manila with the Forty-eighth r Iment (colored): 60,000 pounds beef, s mutton, 160 pounds lamb, W0 pounds turkey, % dozen chickens. 40 dozen ducks, 40 dozen quail, 1500 pounds fish, besides 100,000 dozen eggs, a large quantity of milk, fresh butter, vegeta- bles and fruit. All the supplies are put Into thé freczing chambers and frozen solid. tropics the meat has to be removed from required and thawed out In an even *emperature. the cans in solid blocks and thawed out in the kitchen before it can be put into The vegetables come out a little wilted, but as good as the day they ware received on board the ship. The carcasses of beef and mutton are frozen so bard a few hours after they have been put in the chamber that when hard substance they ring like an anvil. ‘Chiet Steward Pfeiffer of the Warren s an old hand at the business and one of the most experienced and best liked men on the coast. vears chef of the State of California, then he was on the Queen, later on the City of Puebla, leaving that vessel to take charge of the Warren. the pitchers. struck with any CHIEF STEWARD PFEIFFER. In the it s The milk has to be cut out of the freezing chamber before He was for seven Avoid Liability of lnfringement ! tache, but he is more military attache by It was the re- . made through secured his done on the th more if he were | d as an officer of one the islands than if he ched to some general's ift for himseif. There ure in the scheme as real necessity for a ive to tie him: of a regiment Take nothing bust the GENUINE—:lwaysinsea'ed boxes braring our registered trademark “Welsbach.” All infringersof our patents will be prosecuted —whether Manufacturers, Dealers or Users. But ot take part hase of the que: ustrian to seek a | his y d the A P00ERDVVICENOBIPDO0I020000800IRTORRRGS 1 reported at He Y Welsbach Light Co. [ the Leading Cities the East, :-house he Jand the place . an Austrian H odging-house i Elcgant f Clay street. He i Tailor-Made for himself in H Riite H , and therefore he | Euits, ) the sailor lodg- ! 515.5¢ 0. The Fall memb b! FORMER SOCIAL LION I JAIL FOR SWINDLING of a Local Society Pet. e ONCE MANAGFD BURLINGAME ———— CAPTAIN F. F. WAINEWRIGHT ARRESTED AT ROSSLAND. ———— Captain F, Fane Wainewright, one time he British army and ex-member rancieco’'s emart set/ls now a er of the ancient fraternity of jail 24 prison at Nelson, B. C. e charge which h en, with , It is hardly prob command ca be or that the tr that date, » out and, the bl gut all from the Forty been ordered to He left last even- | geon George A. 1 to temporary 1 ng nis DR. MEYERE & CO. have twe prase tice and best equipped medical institution Pecific Const. Established 17 M. Marshal, FRIVATE BOOK end cdvice f : 7 by mmall AT Jessars Sonasentis! eneral in chief of 731 Market St., San Francisco. ‘hase horses for TS will take with xth Cavalry s reely and John of the quarter- | L3 ¢vs~> GR. JORDAN'S grear . M0 MUSEUM OF AKATOM MARZETCOT. bet E2272 5.27.00), Anmomical M nees of courts-mar- yproved by the depa sem in o CAPTAIN F. FANE WAINEWRIGHT. money under false pretenses. The rumor I Cheatham, 4 i gy Bl B - found months in the Jail at Nelson was . v e nacy ., Was senten to 8 8 OR. JORDAN—PRIVATE DIS(ASE‘& T Nt passing bogus checks and obtaining atrick, Troop G, ¢ of drunken- f disobeying the order tion free and strictly private by ) o A urers every asew rriaken, ¢ ¢ ssioned to be con- m 4 or for twenty days and to ? pit JORDAN & €O, 105! Markerst.s 5 § Vernte” Higgina, Gompany D, 3 e y, found gullty of ard, of threatening a v disobeying the order ed officer, was sen- confined at hard labor for ths and to forfeit $1) per month same period = t ¢ Healing, Harmless and Efficient. thre for the rank Baker, Company of his arres t first reached this city Batur- day night, and since that time has been made the principal theme of gossip in all the principal clubs of this city, wherein the captain was a welcome guest, is as any other man possessing a correct knowl- edge of the temperature of wines and the emperament of horses, and absolutely no redentials to tell who he Is or where he comes from, The captain first floated into San Fran- cisco in 1895, and at once became the run- i ¢ a oun fity of . ning mate of all the real things of this Pocitively removes e I O SufIer | Sty He had - dslihthully o tatocratie P es and all Skin uard, was senten to be re- glish manner, which, coupled with his TOR THE Fuptions Saall’ 566 S ihe Erade of & private soldier outre style of dress, his perfect knowledge 1 by Promin . forfett §10 per month for five of how and when a dinner should be Cg"thox duces a natural com ;‘"wa, a ‘:holmugh undolr:mrgnnl )r)l u:a | plexion. Jesse Allen, Battery N, Third horse ae he is seéen on the English polo { g > Phroso talkes the Tonnd Fullty ot Sleaniae oh e | grounds and hunting felds. a fund of on: SRS, = OTOR SROh H confined to the limits tertaining stories and reminiscences, in FLESH#Z WHITE | Dlace of powder an which Dukes, Earls and Princes of the for three California. $ hi » | leaves no oily effects. The PHROSO NFG.CO.| v g ] the of- aemeA, on. | ”::I. by all drug the of- ws. Company , found gullty o f neglect of duty clously destroy DR. HALL'S REINVIGORATOR Five bundred reward for any cane We cannot cure. This secret etops all losses In cures ':“"‘-‘}’{“‘ without le of willfuuy er-in rolls honorably dis- United States, ting all pay and allowances and to ce of t chargec £ forf be contined at hard labor | the reviewing authority may designate for one year. The sentence was deemed to be excessive, however, and so much as ex- ceeded a forfeiture of $10 of his pay was Qisapproved. such place as or | ien, $; guar sase Address HALL'S MED TE, 86 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. waie s 2073 Market st 8. Al Ciseases quickly cured. Bend for fres ot OFFICERS HONORED. Reception Tendered the Forty- Ninth by African M. E. Church. The officers and band of the Forty- | ninth Colored Regiment were tendered a | reception by the pastor, Dr. Tilghman Brown, and the congregation of the Zion A. M. E. Church last evening. The ehurch was packed. The officers sat in a Semicircle on the platform at one end of the chapel, with the chairman, J. L. Der- | ek, in evening dress in the center, and announced each speech or band selection. Many speeches werq made. and aroused great enthusiasm. e officers prese: Nere Captain T. Cambell, Captain H. Crumbly, Captain C. Blunt, ant W. H. Butler, Lieutenant X Walls, * First Lieutenant F. Thomas, | Captain W. M. Hawkins, Second Lieuten- | ant B. Perea, Second Lieutenant H. F. Wheaton, First Lieutenant D. J. Gilman. | After the i hes an elaborate supper | was served in the church parlors. me time this week the church will entertain the rank and fije of the Forty-ninth. Contractor Goes Into Bankruptey. NEW YORK, Nov. fl-—m:l‘l.l‘ml:m:. tractor, has filed a petition 3 m:yA Lourbluuol $648,621, of which $606,~ s secured. NEW PUBLICATIONS. ; HAVE YOU READ DAVID 340,000 TO NOV. L . Lieuten- < blood largely figured, stamped him at once as a thoroughbred of the purest breeding and a fit associate for the embryonic NEW ADVERTISEMENT. Thousands of peo- ple’s lives have been saved by the use of Warner's Safe Cure. Thousands of men and women are kept in perfect health to- day by the use of Warner's Safe Cure. So many others have been cured, there certainly is no reason why you should not be bene- fitted by the use of Warner's Safe Cure. occupying commodious apartments | DI were receive resulted In the | mercha gay captain being incarcerated for three | can make good the losses they have sus E: swells who had just succeeded in getting onto the way things shouid be done. He was admitted to all the clubs, taken | everywhere and became, in fact, ar- biter elegantarium of soclal San Fran- cisco. It was learned that he had former. ly been the manager of the St. Louis Country Club, and he was solicited to take charge of Burlingame. He complied, and for a Ume ran the whole ranch. Nothing was done without | seeking his advice; nothing was attempted | Wwithout the light of his counsel. What | Walnewright sald went, and what Walne- | wright forbade was forever scratched off | the club’s books. The captain saw his opportunity and made the most of it. His new friends were worked for whatever they would stand, and whatever went Into the cap- | tain’s’ pockets never again was seen un less in tra counter t bookmaker. 1 But the captain was a good fellow and a thoroughbred, and nobody kicked. | Francisco society wanted real swells, and when it had one it was willing to pay for | the luxury. But In time other contestants for social favor drifted in, and the captain | began to lose ground. It was discovered | that he was spending too much time in ayety and not enough in pursuit of his uties f the San Mateo Coun- try Club g a meeting of the di- rectors was called and the popular cap- taln was let out He at once left the city, and from that time only the vaguest rumors concerning until the news of his resent trouble was flashed over she wires | north. His present victims are of Nelson, B. C., and unless he sit over some bar or across the shadowed the block of some | rom the talned through his dishonesty they will| send him where he will be given a harder ob than teaching the young idea of a| W estern metropolis how to shoot and ride. While Walnewright has done up dozens | of men in this city he seems to have left none but friends behind him. He was a good fellow, and the worst of his short | cominge while here seems to have been sire to row money, which he spend as liberally as it was given | him. The members of Burlingame say | that he was let out of his position there because of incompetency, and that, not- | v anding reports to the contrary, he | never indulged in any crookedness in the handling of the club's funds and accounts, Though Wainewright passed a number of worthless checks, the one on which he was prosecuted was for which he worked on Thomas Lillle of the firm of Lillte Bros. of Nelson, B. C. The brother of the prisoner was present and did everything he could to save him. The Judge, however, sald that an ex- ample had to be made of some one, as the grnvme of passing worthless paper had ecome altogether too common among re- mittance men, and the lesson would do a"gr»m deal of good to the whole frater. nity. The captain therefore has the satisfac- tion of knowing that he is setting an ex- ample even while in durance vile. College Men. The college men will own San Francisco this d you'll find the principal owners at | IMPORTANT WITNESS FOR THE FRENNA CASE Messenger Boy Who Saw the Shoot- ing Has Been Found—Trial Con- tinues This Morning. The trinl of Joseph P. Frenna, who mur- dered James F. Turner in the Crocker bullding a few months ago, was again taken up yesterday morning, but the sit~ ting was of short duration. In the absence of District Attorney Murphy Assistant District Attorney Solomons conducted the prosecution. On the opening of the session J. J. Rauer was called to the stand and identified a deed over which Frenna had quarreled with Turner. After Mr. Rauer had con- cluded Mr. Hosmer, who represents Fren- na, expressed his desire to recall A. B. Paul, who testified for the prosecution, that he might be cross-examined. In or- der to favor the defense the court ordered an adjournment until this morning. Wit- nesses absent yesterday will be ordered to be present this morning, at which time the hearing will be resumed. A dispatch received from San Bernar- dino _last night states that Will- lam P. Walsh, the missing witness in the Frenna murder case, Is at present an inmate of the County Jall In that ecity, having been arrested as a vagrant on the 2st mfit, E On the morning of the shooting in the Crocker bullding young Waish, who w:- a telegraph messenger boy, had occasion | to go to the fourth floor of that building, | and on his way down he saw Frenna | when he pulled his pistol from his pocket | and fired five shots into the Wody of Tur- | ner. Walsh was the onlfiy ev8-witness to | the killing. He left San Francisco on Sep- | tember . Sherift Rouse of San Bernardino learned these facts form an Inmate of the Jail to whom Walsh had made a sort of confession. He at once asked Walsh to make an affidavit to his statement, which he did, and the facts were telegraphed to San Franclsco. ————————— | | | Two Italians Thrown From a Wagon on Montgomery Avenue. A wagon driven by Frank Smatt and Joe Cherly, two Itallans, was struck by a Union-street cable car on Montgomery avenue last evening. Both the occupants were thrown out and the wagon badly demolished. The men drove in front of the car and before it could be stopped considerable damage was done. The men were taken to the Harbor Recelv ital. lOne ,0',,""7"' lu-ldllnhed a severe aceration of the hea the ot 4 few superficial bruises S hna — e UNABLE TO AGREE. Third Bierworth Jury Dismissed After Three Days' Detention. The jury in the case of Albert Bjer- worth, charged with the murder of Arthur Brawn, In a Howard-street lodg- ing-house last November, were again un- able to ‘f“ on a verdict and were djs- missed. They have been locked up since Saturday.and at the time of their ajg- issal stood eleven for conviction and one “Fnis e the third time the Bierw s e e case has had ¢~ be continued owln:flug g Inability to l,;reo as to his e majority in each of the former als stood for conviction. Yesterday’s Insolvent. Thomas J. Toole, Oakland, $2407; no as- | by | tracts were let, and is not | ha 189 CONTRACTS LET BEFORE RECEIPT OF REQUISITION Guard Blouse Awards Discussed. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S VIEWS e A NEW POINT RAISED AS TO THE BOARD. e s While Two Members May Execute a Contract, Unanimity Is Con- sidered More De- sirable. e Attorney General Ford has rendered the opinfon referred to in Sunday’'s Call af to the power of the uniform board of the Natlonal Guard of California to award contracts. The opinion was forwarded to the Adjutant General's office in Sacra- mento last SBaturday afternoon. The conclusions of the Attorney Gen- eral are that the power of the board is set forth in section 2027 of the Political Code, wherein it is provided among other things that ‘‘the service uniform and equipments shall be furnished, as afore- sald, by a board which is hereby provided, to consist of three commissioned officers, to be appointed by the commander-in- chief.” This board is directed “to pur- chase the cloth, arrange for its cutting and also for its making, when required by the commander of any organization, and also to purchase equipments.” The same section further provides that “‘the bills of sald board shall be audited, al- lowed and paid as are other military de- mands."” ‘With reference to the above the fol- lowing questions were submitted to the Attorney General: First—What is the standin board as to bidders whose bids have been accepted for uniforms and which blds were submitted in response to advertisements for and on behalf of the board? Second—Who should sign contracts— the board by its president and its re- corder or the entire board? In response to the first question, the Attorney General holds that the ncc&gt- ance by the board of the bid of a bidder in reoronu to public notice sollcmna such bids and the acceptance of such bi the board and the notification of the bidder of such acceptance, completed and created a contract, and that sald contract was binding upon the board subject to the provisions above referred to with ref- erence to the .-mdnlnfi. allowance nnd;a: ment of the bills therefor by the State Board of Military Auditors. In response to the second question, the Attorney General cited section 15 of the Political Code, which reads as follows: Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers, or other persons, are construed as glving such authority to a majority of them, un- less it {s otherwise expressed in the act giving the authority. After thus quoting from the law, the Attorney General held that in a proper | case all contracts for or on behalf of sald board should be signed by every member of the board, although a majority thereof would be authorized to act. In view of this it is probable that the board, or more properly the majority— Colonel Cutler and Lleutenant Colonel Glesting—wlll nlgn the two contracts for blouses, awarded to the Pettibone Com- any and to Mandel, Pursch & Co., the tter receiving by the vote of these two membe: f the board 38 cents more per blouse than Pettibone & Co., or In all, on amount of the contract, the sum of The law quo ted b eral Is that of 1865, and from its readin it 18 clear that “this board is authorize and directed to purchase the cloth, ar- range for {ts cutting and also for its mak- ing when required by the commander of any organization.” Now a new question ¥ the Attorney Gen- arises, and that ls, Did not the uniform | | board in letti the contracts, not only for the blouses, but for the caps, trousers and overcoats, exceed its authority? For it is a fact that no commundlnf Meer of ‘"f of the organizations, say the Second Brigade, for instance, has made Lnfi re- quisition for uniforms. The First Regi- ment certainly did not, for it was not a part of the National Guard when the con- et, as the muster rolls have not as yet been for- warded to su}wnor headquarters. If any one on behalf of the Fifth Regiment has filed a rwtul!l(lnn. no one in authority knows of it. Consequently the board of ite own volition has let contracts for more than $40,000 without any requisition have ing been made for the same. HAD NO BIRTHDAYS. Raw Recruit Caldeira Does Not Know Whether He Is 17 or 21 Years Old. United States District Judge de Haven yesterday heard the application of Mrs. Louise Caldeira for the release of her son Jose from the Marine Barracks, where he is confined at present. Caldeira was In court and swore that he did not know his age, never having had any birthday celebrations, but he belleved that he was | 21 years old, and had so stated when he enlisted. Mrs. Caldeira swore that Jose was only 17 years old, and that he was born In Centerville, Alameda Cnunlf’. A postponement was had for a week, in order that the records of Jose's baptism might be produced In court. In the mean- time the young recruit will remain in the custody of Admiral Kempfl at Mare Island. THE NEW SOUTH. See Its Vast Extent, Wonderful Prog- ress and Possibilities. The best way to see the new South is to patronize this tri-weekly personally conducted excursion of the Sunset Route and Pledmont Air Line, running from San Francisco to Washington without change of cars. A double berth in new sixteen section, buled, rosewood finished, roller cur- tained, broad double windowed, uphol- stered, steel wheeled, gas lighted Pull- man ordinary sleepers, only $7 to | Washington. Leaves San rancisco Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Los Angeles Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays every week. Ask agent Southern Pacific Company for excursion folder, or write M. Beall, Pacific Coast agent Piedmont Air Line, 621 Market street, San Fran- cisco; or A. M. Barnum, traveling pas- senger agent, Wilcox building, Los An- geles. ROBBED BY BUNKO MEN. Dodge. A. Comiasco, a miner who recently a: rived from the Cape Nome gold field: ran athwart a pair of bunko steerers yes- terday afternoon and last night he was just $240 poorer for his experience. Com- lasco was standing in front of the Man- chester Hotel about 4 o'clock In the after- noon when a stranger accosted him and generously offered to show him the sights ut town. “”rohe stranger conducted .Comiasco to a saloon at 70 Howard street, where he engaged in a dice ggme with his "&-l, who was standing at the bar drinking when the stranger and his “sucker’ en- tered. The bunko man was successful and the unsuspecting miner became In- terested in the game. The bunko man took Comiasco aside and told him to bet on the next I’Ilkxfi- Hel ‘?Id so and bunko steerer’s pal won the money. 'héom”m then realized that he had been robbed and he raised such a disturbance that the bunko men gave him $30 back. They then disappeared before the miner could call a policeman. Comliasco visited Captain Spillane last night and gave him a description of the two men. —————————— For bargains in Thanksgiving turkeys, seo O'Connor Bros., 122-124 Ninth street. . broad vesti- | Contributors to this course: | VI. HANS HOLBEIN. BY ARTHUR LINCOLN FROTHING- HAM JR., PH.D. Durer, Holbein and Rembrandt are the | three greatest representatives of renais- sance art In Germany, and, while Durer's genlus {s more imaginative and Rem- brandt's more commanding and personal, Hoibein excels Durer as a colorist and composer, can be more altruistic chan Rembrandt and occuples a broader posi- tion than either as a link between the art of Italy and the north during the renals- sance. Holbein was the only German painter who absorbed both the early and the golden renalssance of Italy, tempering Dr, John C. Van Dyke, Frothingham Jr., Arthur Hoeber, Frank Fowler and others. | with_occasicnal color notes, aided by h dramatic restlessness of Germany. His renaissance penetrated his native and as the fervor of Protestant reform 1 HANS HOLBEIN. was lending a new though temporary vigor to religious art. Holbein was as great an exponent of the second as of the first of these natlonal movement The imperial city of Augsburg, where Hans Holbein was born in 1497, was the principal center of the early renalssance In Germany. It had long possessed a fa- mous school of painting. Holbein's father, uncle and brothers were all paint- ers, and he grew up in his father's work- shop practicing painting from his ear- liest boyhood. He remained in Augsburg until 1516, and the city still preserves a number of his boyish works, which tes- tify to great precocity. In 1512 he painted some fine panels for the convent of BSt. Catherine; in 1515 the votive picture of triptych of the “Martyrdom of St. Sebas- tian,” where the figure of St. Elizabeth is one of the most beautiful hitherto pro- duced by German art. Numerous sketches for portraits remain at Augsburg show- ing how early the boy tended toward his great specialty and how soon he acquired surety of touch and characterization. In 1516, at the age of 19, he went to Switzerland, settling at Basel as an in- dependent painter. He remained there ten | years, and during this time attalned to | the full maturity of his talents. He then | executed " religious pictures for _the churches—a branch which he afterward | entirely abandoned. The “Virgin and | Child,” at Solothurn, in 1522, with its broad, heavy figures, was followed by that world-renowned picture, e “Ma- | donna of the Burgomaster Meyer Fam- ily,” of which the original is in stadt and the better-known early copy in Dres- den. It is a marvelous example of high finish and splendid coloring and affects one like peals of a grand organ. Holbein treated a poignant theme often attempted by German artists and one in which they loved to revel in theatrical and hideous realism. Holbein succecdea in tempering this with some of the Ita'fan grace and repose. The Catholic churches of Switzerland, so soon to be desecrated, | were decorated at this time with a num- ber of ais religious paintings. He en- | tered also the field of classical allegory In a series of frescoes in the hall of the | Town Couacil, | "still, even from the beginning of h life in Basel, he put the most of his heart into his portraits. Those of Jacob Meler and his wife (1516) are soft and oring, lnnugurmlnf a style that culmin- ates In the superb head of his friend, Bon- ifacius Amerbach, which has more pure beauty than any of the portraits of his later English period. During the last years of his Basel life (1523-26) Holbein devoted himself almost exclusively to drawings for wood cuts, of which over 300 are known, besid some tweanty alphabets. They lllustrated both Old and New Testaments and miscel- laneous writings. The serles of “Dance of Death" carried his reputation everywhere. Holbein may have been re- duced to this work by the slight patron- age given him_by the city, which finally drove him to England. At tie same (Ime he always showed a marked love for the decorative and minor arts, well Llustrat- ed by the collections of his drawings. It i3 evident that Leonardo da vinei and the Milunese school influenced Holbein in Basel; he was even more strougly swayed Dy the great Paduan Mantegna, whose engravings formed his drawing and whose dramatic wer clothed in classic ace and mastery of perspective in architecture appealed to him so for- cibly that entire iureu and groups are lel‘ODl’hlle In Holbein's larger composi- tions, beginning with his passion pic- tures (Basel) of 1519 and ending in his “Triumph of Riches” and “Triumph of Poverty”” in London. The inherent Ger- man reallsm often continued, however, to plerce through in this Basel period In ways often exaggerated, theatrical or re- pulsive. Such were the heads of the mustachioed Adam and an E plain studies from ungraceful models; such was the single figure of the dead Christ, so startingly corpselike in its unsparing real- ism; such were ny tragic and comic detalls in his passion scenes and other series. Holbein showed then a very strong element of comedy and satire, which he vented especially in his smali drawings for {llustrations. It is seldom that so little is known of the private life of an eminent artist. The vague reports circulated long after his death that he was of lax morality and g winebibber are hardly tenable in view of the friendships of such men as the great Erasmus, the pure-minded Amerbach and the moral paladin Sir Thomas More. It is true that his marriage to a widow ap- pears not to have been a success: he dld not take his wife and children to England, and therefore was separated from them for nearly all the latter part of his life. It was the friendship of Erasmus for Holbeln that enabled the painter to go to England In 1526 with rnod hopes of find- ing there the fleld denied him In Basel. Holbein’s known output during the three years (1527-20) of this first English resi- dence was entirely portraits. 'ginning with Sir Thomas More himself, to whom Erasmus had recommended 'him, and prominent men of More's circle, such as Archbishop Warham, Bishop Fisher Sir Henry Guilford, he , as his rep- utation grew. to a wider circle. All his portraits of these years have a force and realism unusually penetratin, ven for Holbein—notwithstanding their eomg;red with his previous work at sel. There is almost no mannerism in his portraits, no obvious Intervention of the artist’s personality, as there Is in such with its grace and beauty the realism and | In his carly series of passion pictures | harmonious, with transparent brown col- | the | career began as the first wave of the | land, | the Schwartz family, and in 1518 the great | his appointment in 1537 as court painter | | | | arousing religigus emotion THE KING OF GERMAN PORTRAIT PAINTERS Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS. Dr. Russell Sturgls, Dr. A. L. other great portraitists as Rembrandt and Van Dyke. While at times Holbein may seem wanting In the imaginative realizing of character, his powers of observation, which served him with such unerring ac- curacy even in the minutest details, r roduce also the whole of the Individual n a way that is perfectly convincing. Th delicate lines of the sketches for his por- traits are always clear and firm and show no retouches; on these quick sketches wonderful memory, he relied almost en- tirely in making the finished portralts, and did not burden his subjects with many sittings. A study of his numerous drnwinrl at Windsor and Basel is in pensable, 4 When Holbein returned to Basel in 15 he found that the most disorderly el ments of the Reformation had triumphed e churches for which he had worked had been sacked and the paintings—his among them—destroyed. The reformers themselves had forbidden religious art. Holbein found na public commissions awaiting him except for some wall paint- jngs In_ the great council hall, where he had already worked in his youth. The scenes of “Re hoboam Threaten the Israel . t “Samuel Condemn- ing Saul for Sparing the Amalekites” and of “Hezeklah Ord. ing the Destruct the Idols” w ts in the hatreds and vio- lence of the time: Still, as grand roic ¢ o m positions, worthy of ranking with the great works of contempy rary Italian fresce ists, they are uniqu in German art. Like all the rest of Hol- bein’s monumental works, they have perished, and only sketches' remain. ‘The Dbitter relig- ious wars of the Swiss states, that made imposs bl Holbein and in te he to live f rest of his lifs for a fe to France and Belgium and a shopt visit to Basel ftself. Holbeln found that Sir Thomas More and his party had fal into disfavor, an the except journeys 1 Jo etoay wify “opw 10 B|q Jo ss0] ayL own compat ondon—the wealthy German merchants of the Steelyard From 1532 to 183 he painted a mumber of portraits of these worthies. Perhaps with a view of catering to their vanity and na- tional love of homely detail. he often in- troduced accessories that mar the sim- plieity of these portraits, though they a done with the care of the best painters still life. The most notable for colc finish and character is the half-figure “Jorg Gysin" in Berlin, which is perh the greatest work of this life, though almost rivaled ] mbassadors” (1533) In the National Gal- ery. Every ?;enr added to the tation.” Perhaps the ard Southwell in 15 ainter's repu- ortrait of Sir Rich- opened the way to This year marks an epoch in his life: he painted in the palace at Whitehall the monumental portrait icture, the full-length figures of Henry VIII and his wife, Jane Seymour; his father. Hen VII,'and his mother Elizabeth. The po { trait of Henry VIII in this plcture was the starting point of most of the King's later portraits. Some Idea of its exec tion can be ?Imd from the contemp rary portrait by him of the King's gold- smith, “Hubert Morett” (Dresden), his greatest existing work for these years. Shortly after the painter was sent by the King to Brussels to make a portrait of the Duchess of Milan, whom he thought of marrying. The existing full length of the Duchess (Norfolk collectiony Is one of the simplest, most direct and sympathetic of all his works Holbein became the portrayer in suc- cession of Henry's various Queens and their children, as well as of the great lords and ladies of the court. The esti- mation in which he was held may be gauged by the anecdote of his throwing a nobleman downstalrs—whereat the King declared that he could any day mako seven earls out of seven peasants, but out of seven earls he could not make one Holbein. The painter must have aiso been court decorator and architectural designer, director of fetes and processions planner of the royal costumes, ornament arms and furniture, and he himself b came a miniaturist. He thus not on assisted materially in the devélopment English industrial and minor arts. but he introduced and popularized in England the art of the pure Itallan renalssance in all its forms, even In architecture and monumental ornament. There was something extremely virile in Holbel talent. He was a painter of men, not as seeén by a poet and ldealize not as transformed by the pajnter's me- dfum, but analyzed by a Reen-grasp- ing intellect. Though he and Durer were the two artists who most assisted by their fllustrative designs in the great attempt of the Protestant reform to make known the Bible to the people throughout Europe, and though their powerful illustrations proved only second to the text {tself in yet Holbein lp?enru not to have allled himself to the out-and-out reformers. but rather to have stood, like his friend Erasmus, on neutral ground. Still he must be regarded, when we reckon up his life work, as a great re- former, if only for the penitential effec of the caustic and terrorizing pictures of his “Dance of Death.' His life closed at the age of 47, during the London plague of 153. FHis Ym-mu' mous reputation was such as to lead to the attribution to him in England of many contemporary portraits. 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