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COPLEY HALL, MARCH FIFTH, TO
MARCH TWENTY-EIGHTH,
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GENERAL COMMITTEE:

MR. HOLKER ABBOTT, Chairman

MR. W. L. PARKER, Treasurer

MRS. W. L. PARKER, Secretary
Mr. THOMAS ALLEN MISS A. C. PUTNAM

MISS CHARLOTTE BOWDITCH MR. EDWARD ROBINSON
MR. J. T. COOLIDGE, JR. MISS A. P. ROGERS

MR. W. F. CORNE MRS. C. S. SARGENT

MR. C. H. DAVIS MRS. J. M. SEARS

MR. G. H. INGRAHAM MISS MARTHA SILSBEE

MR. A. W. LONGFELLOW, JR. MR. J. LINDON SMITH
MR. H. D. MURPHY MR. ROSS TURNER

PROF. C. E. NORTON MR. F. P. VINTON

MR. J. E. PEABODY MR. C. H. WALKER

MR. H. WINTHROP PEIRCE MRS. HENRY WHITMAN

COMMITTEE ON SELECTION OF PICTURES:

MR. J. E. PEABODY MR. EDWARD ROBINSON

MR. THOMAS ALLEN MRS. J. M. SEARS

MR. J. T. COOLIDGE, JR. MISS MARTHA SILSBEE

MISS A. M. CURTIS MR. J. LINDON SMITH

MISS A. C. PUTNAM MRS. HENRY WHITMAN

HANGING COMMITTEE:
MR. J. T. COOLIDGE, JR. MR. J. E. PEABODY

MR. HOLKER ABBOTT MR. H. WINTHROP PEIRCE

MR. THOMAS ALLEN MR. E. H. RICHTER

MR. H. D. MURPHY MR. J. L. SMITH

MR. C. H. WOODBURY

COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS:
MRS. C. S. SARGENT MRS. EDWARD ROBINSON

MISS JULIA BACON MISS A. P. ROGERS

MRS. W. L. PARKER MISS MARTHA SILSBEE

MISS A. C. PUTNAM MISS ALICE STACKPOLE

MRS. HENRY WHITMAN

COMMITTEE ON DECORATION:
MR. HOLKER ABBOTT MR. C. HOWARD WALKER

MR. A. W. LONGFELLOW, JR. MRS. HENRY WHITMAN
MR. J. L. SMITH

COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AFFAIRS:
MR. J. E. PEABODY MR. J. T. COOLIDGE, JR.

MR. W. L. PARKER

COMMITTTEE ON CATALOGUE:
MR. DWIGHT BLANEY MISS FRANCES HAYWARD

MR. G. H. INGRAHAM MR. C. HOWARD WALKER

COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE:
MR. W. F. CORNE

COMMITTEE ON THE PRESS:
MR. EDWARD ROBINSON

£>ne ^unfcteti Masterpiece*
9

BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST. Contemporary
artist of New York. Member of American Society of
.Artists

1 MOTHER AND CHILD. Loaned by J. M.
Sears, Esq.

CAZIN, JEAN CHARLES. Born at Samer in Picardy.
Still living. Pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Won his first
medals in the Salon in 1876-1877, by figure subjects from
sacred and profane history. Then turned his attention to
landscape, and became creator of a new school, combin-
ing free, broad, simple treatment with poetic sentiment.

2 PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER BATHING
IN THE NILE. Loaned by P. C. Brooks,
Esq.

CLOUET, FRAN9OIS, 1517-1573. Was born in France,
of Flemish parents, and succeeded his father in the joint
offices of Court-Painter and Valet-de-Chambre to Fran-
cis I. He retained these appointments under Henry II.,
Francis II., and Charles IX. His paintings bear distinct
traces of a Flemish origin and his style differs widely from
that of the Italian artists whose pictures were then so
much in vogue in France. His work resembles Van Eyck
and Memling in delicacy of form and purity of line, while
it has a distinction and elegance which is perhaps rather
French than Flemish.

3 PORTRAIT. Loaned by John G. Johnson,
Esq., Philadelphia.

4 PORTRAIT OF MARIE D'AUTRICHE.
Loaned by J. M. Sears, Esq. Attributed to
Clouet.

COROT, JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE, 1796-1875.
Son of a small Parisian tradesman, did not begin his
artistic education until he was 22 years of age. He was
first a pupil of Michallon and then of Berlin, and finally
completed his studies in Italy. Beginning first as a figure
painter he soon devoted himself exclusively to landscape,
working in the open air early and late to catch those
effects seen only at sunrise or sunset, in which he delighted.
His originality was great, and he saw and painted
nature in a manner replete with poetry and fancy. An
intimate of Diaz, Rousseau, Troyon, Daubigny, Mieris,
he was much admired and loved by all his fellow artists.

5 LANDSCAPE. Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw,
Esq.

6 NYMPHS AND FAUNS. Loaned by W.
A. Slater, Esq., Norwich, Connecticut.

7 PARIS, SEEN FROM SAINT CLOUD.
Loaned by Mrs. Samuel D. Warren.

8 THE LAKE. Loaned by Mrs. F. L. Ames.

9 NOON; VILLE D'AVRAY. Loaned by
Dr. H. C. Angell.

10 ITALIAN LANDSCAPE. Loaned by Dr.
H. C. Angell.

11 DIANA. Loaned by Mrs. F. L. Ames.

CRIVELLI, CARLO, 1435-1498. A Venetian by birth
who painted almost exclusively religious subjects. His
pictures were usually done for the churches and religious
nouses of the northern Italian towns and are now much
scattered. Perhaps his most famous works may be seen
in the National Gallery at London, but many are found
in the continental museums. He painted with great feel-
ing and naivete, and always in tempora.

12 MOTHER AND CHILD. Loaned by
Quincy A. Shaw, Esq.

CONSTABLE, JOHN, 1776-1837. Was the son of a
miller in Suffolk, England, and was one of the greatest
as he was one of the first of the English realistic land-
scape painters. He had but little artistic instruction, but
all his life spent much time in the fields studying and
painting directly from nature. Some of his pictures having
been exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824 were much ad-
mired by the French artists and his methods were copied
by them. He may be truly said to have been the precursor
if not the founder of the modern French landscape school

13 HAMPSTEAD HEATH. Loaned by John
G. Johnson, Esq., Philadelphia.

COURBET, GUSTAVE, 1819-1877. Pupil of Ingres.
His early works were ill received and very unfavorably
criticised, which seems to have embittered him against
his brother artists. For a long time he refused to exhibit
in the annual salons but held several exhibitions of his
own works alone. His pictures eventually made their
mark, being splendid in colour and rich in tone. Though
not a great draughtsman his figure subjects were very
strong and original, but his landscapes, particularly those
in which he introduced animals, gave him his g;reat repu-
tation. " La Curee," in this Exhibition, is considered one
of his finest works, and is superb in colour and handling*

14 LA CUR&E. Loaned by Henry Sayles, Esq.

15 LANDSCAPE. Loaned by George Dexter,
Esq.

16 MARINE. Loaned by F. R. Sears, Jr., Esq.

CUYP, AELBERT. Born in Dosdrecht, 1605, died 1691.
Little is known of his life except that he was a pupil of
his father who was a portrait painter, and that he him-
self was a brewer as well as an artist. He was noted
particularly for his wonderful painting of light. Havard
says of him that "no one with the exception of Claude
Lorraine has ever been better able to render the burning
heat of midday, or the warm and vibrating rays of the

setting sun." He was versatile in his subjects, painting'
portraits, of which some of the best are in the Dulwich
Gallery, marine subjects, Dutch landscapes with cattle,
and groups of people.

17 LANDSCAPE WITH BULL. Loaned by
William Macbeth, Esq., New York.

DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANCOIS, 1817-1878.
One of the most distinguished landscape painters and
etchers ; was a pupil of Delacroix. He worked faithfully
from nature and painted many river scenes from his boat
studio in which he lived for weeks at a time. His land-
scapes are characterized by great dignity of composition
and beauty of colour and line. The examples of his brush
which are in this Exhibition are finely characteristic of
his genius and are among his most famous pictures.

18 DUCK POND. Loaned by Dr. H. C. Angell.

19 ON THE OISE. Loaned by Dr. H. C.
Angell.

20 LANDSCAPE; Group of Oaks. Loaned by
Barthold Schlesinger, Esq.

21 THE FORGE. Loaned by F. Bartlett, Esq.

DEWING, T. W. Born in Boston. Pupil of Lefebre,
and Boulanger, in Paris. He is a National Academician,
and a member of the Society of American Artists. Mr.
Dewing has won distinction in decorative art, in por-
traiture, and in ideal compositions. His work is marked
by admirable draughtsmanship, delicate coloration and a
refined imagination.

22 LADY IN BLUE. Loaned by Charles L.
Freer, Esq., Detroit, Michigan.

DIAZ, NARCISSE VIRGIL, 1809-1876. French painter
born of Spanish parents at Bordeaux. His figure and
genre pictures, though often charming in colour, would
never have gained him the position he holds in the artistic
world had it not been for his landscapes. He was partic-
ularly fond of woodland subjects, and painted much in the
forest of Fontainebleau. His wood interiors are very
charming and characteristic, and his pictures are to be
seen in the museums of France, England and America.
He was an intimate friend of Corot, Rousseau, and be-
longed to what is now called the Barbizon School of
artists.

23 FOREST INTERIOR. Loaned by Mrs.
F. L. Ames.

24 DESCENT OF THE BOHEMIANS.
Loaned by Mrs. Samuel D. Warren.

25 SUNSET. Loaned by Mrs. D. P. Kimball.

DUPRE, JULES, 1811-1889. Was born at Nantes,
France. He was a noted French landscape painter. He
was originally a porcelain painter, in his father's manu-
factory. He was the long-time friend and companion of
Rousseau ; and though a strong painter in landscape and
marine, was not his equal. He was a good but not great
colourist, and was of the group of Fontainebleau artists
of 1830, called the Romantic or Natural School. He died
at Lisle Adam, in 1889.

26 AUTUMN EVENING. Loaned by Mrs.
F. L. Ames.

27 OAK IN THE LANDES. Loaned by J. C.
Bancroft, Esq.

28 LANDSCAPE. Loaned by Mrs. Samuel D.
Warren.

29 THE OLD OAK. Loaned by Blakeslee
Galleries, New York.

I

DELACROIX, FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE.
Bom at Charenton, Saint Maurice, near Paris, 1799,
died at Paris, 1863. Pupil of Guerm. Exhibited in Salon,
1822. Legion of Honour. 1831. Officer, 1846. Commander,
1855. Member of Institute, 1857. He was the son of
Charles Delacroix who held many important positions
under the Directoire and the Empire. At his father s
death he was taken by his mother to' Pars, at rune years
of age, and put at school. His childhood wa.s marked by
many severe accidents, one of which, the burning of his
cradle, left him scarred :or life. At eighteen he entered
the atelier of Guerin, who mining him ill-adapted to
systematic study, left hum much to himself, i he first
picture he exhibited in the Academy was the '' Barque du
Dante," accepted and hung in 1822. It mace a good im-
pression on connoisseurs. The Salon of 1827 brought a
tempest of discussion about his work, and Delacroix be-
came the head of the Romantic as cppcsed tc the classic
school. His creation as chevalier of* the Legion of Hon-
our in 1 83 1. was followed by his appointment as attache
to a small legation ui Morocco, whence comes much cf
the gorgeous colouring 1:. his late: works. He succeeded
Delaroche as member of the Academv. ui 1857.

SEIZURE BY PIRATES. Loaned by
Messrs. Durand Ruel & Co., New York.

FORTUNY, MARIANO, 1838-1874. Spanish amist
bom at Reuss near Barcelona. He studied at tie Barce-
lona Academy where he gamed tlieprix de Rome, He
worked successively at Rouen. Paris. Morocco, Granada,
and Rome, where he died. I he subjects of his paintings
were usually drawn from Moorish and Siarusli lire, aid
have a strcig gypsy-like charm, He was fend :.' paint-
ing gorgeous stnffs and oriental access
Fortuny's works are owned ui r- ranee and --
there are s:me hie examples in this country. . ne paint-
ing in this Exhibition is a fine specimen of his strong

IN A MOORISH PALACE, Loaned by
George J. Gould, i^sq.

FULLER, GEORGE. Born in Deerfield, 1822, died,
1884. Painted in Albany, Boston, and New York, and
became an associate member of the National Academy,
in 1853. Returning from Europe in i860 he spent most of
the rest of his life in Deerfield, constantly studviug the
mystery of atmosphere and the harmonies of colour that
largely characterize his work, both in landscape and
figure painting.

32 WINIFRED DYSART. Loaned by J. M.
Sears, Esq.

FROMENTIN, EUGENE. Was born at La Rochelle,
1820 and died 1876. Officer of Legion of Honour. Studied
landscape painting under, Cabat. Travelled in the East
in 1842-46. Visited Algiers and made many sketches, and
his work almost without exception is devoted to oriental
subjects. He was hardly less distinguished as a writer
than as a painter. He published accounts of his travels
in the "Pays," and was a frequent contributor to the
Gazette des Beaux Arts. The result of his sauntering in
Holland and Belgium he has embodied in "Les Maitres
d' Autrefois" one of the most delightful and valuable of all
critical essays on the art of the Low Countries.

33 ENCAMPMENT OF ARABS IN AN
OASIS. Loaned by George J. Gould, Esq.

GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS, 1727-1788. Was one
of the most celebrated of the English portrait painters
of the eighteenth century, and he was also an admirable
and original landscape artist. He was one of the found-
ers of the Royal Academy, and was from 1774 until his
death, the favourite portrait painter of London society. His
pictures are beautiful in colour, and his technique is very
firm and free.

34 PORTRAIT; Mrs. Robinson, nefc Fortes-
cue. Loaned by R. Hall McCormick, Esq.,
Chicago, Illinois.

35 PORTRAIT OF A GIRL. Loaned by
Mrs. D. P. Kimball.

36 PORTRAIT; Lady Mulgrave. Loaned by
George J. Gould, Esq., New York.

37 PORTRAIT; Lord Mulgrave. Loaned by
Mrs. Samuel D. Warren.

38 PORTRAIT; The Artist's Daughter.
Loaned by E. D. Jordan, Esq.

HALS, FRANZ, i584?-i666. He was one of the most
remarkable painters of portraits with which history ac-
quaints us. In drawing and modelling he was usually
good, in colouring he was excellent though in his late
work sombre. In brush handling he was one of the great
masters. His best work was in portraiture, and the most
important of this is to be seen at Haarlem where he died.

39 WOMAN'S HEAD. Loaned by Quincy A.
Shaw, Esq.

HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS. Born in Brattleboro,
Vt., 1S24, and died at Isles of Shoals, 1879. His father
was a noted judge, his mother a woman of rare mental
power and force of character. Young Hunt entered Har-
vard College at the age of sixteen, but on account of ill
health he left his class before it was graduated. At the
age of twenty-two he went to Diisseldorf to study
sculpture at the academy, but after a stay of only nine
months went to Paris where he studied painting under
Couture, and painted some of the most wonderful studies
ever produced by any pupil of this master. He did not
remain long with Couture however, but left him to study
with Jean Frangois Millet t, then almost unknown even
to his own countrymen. In 185.5 ^e returned to America
and married. He painted many portraits of noted people,
among them, Chief Justice Shaw, Governor Andrew,
Charles Sumner and James Freeman Clarke. His last.

and most important work was the decorations of the
Assembly Hall at the State Capitol at Albany, which
unfortunately for the reputation of the painter, has per-
ished.

40 LA MARGUERITE. Loaned by Mrs. Alice
N. Lincoln.

41 THE BATHERS. Loaned by Mrs. W. M.
Hunt.

HENNER, JEAN JACQUES. Born at Bernwiller, Al-
sace, March 5th, 1829. A genre painter, pupil of Drolling
and Picot. He gained the grand prix de Rome in 1858,
and a first class medal in 1878. He was made mentor of the
Institute in 1889. His work shows that he is fond of form
and yet a brushman with an idyllic feeling for light and
colour in dark surroundings.

42 GIRL READING. Loaned by F. R. Sears,
Jr., Esq.

HOOCH, PIETER DE, i532?-i68i. Was born at Rot-
terdam about 1632. He was a pupil of Nicolas Berghem,
and was a painter of purely pictorial effects. He was one
of the early masters of full sunlight, painting it falling
across a court-yard or streaming through a window with
marvellous truth and poetry. Little is known about his
life. He seems not to have achieved much fame until late
years, and then rather in England than in his own country.
He died in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1681.

43 DUTCH INTERIOR. Loaned by Mrs.
Samuel D. Warren.

JANNSENS, CORNELIS, called Janson VanKenlen.
Born at Amsterdam 1590, died 1665.

44 PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. Loaned by
R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chicago, Illinois.

JONGKIND. Born in Holland, but educated in Paris
where he lived and worked for the greater part of his
life. He had a great influence upon many of the living
French landscape painters, and though never a popular
painter was always much admired by connoisseurs and
artists. He worked much in water colours as well as in
oils.

45 MOONLIGHT, ROTTERDAM. Loaned
by Dr. H. C. Angell.

KNELLER, SIR GODFREY. Born in Lubeck, 1648,
died 1726. Pupil of Rembrandt and Ferdinand Bol. First
painted historical subjects, but later became eminent as
a portrait painter. Went to London in 1674, and on Sir
Peter Lelly's death was made, in 1680, Court- Painter, to
Charles II. Was invited to Paris by Louis XV., in 1684,
and painted portraits of the Royal Family. Retained his
office of Court- Painter under James 1 1., and after the Rev-
olution was knighted by William III., in 1692.

46 A LADY OF QUALITY. Loaned by R.
Hall McCormick, Esq,, Chicago, Illinois.

LAFARGE, JOHN. Born in New York, 1835, still liv-
ing. Member of Society of American Artists. Pupil of
Hunt. Went to Europe to study, in 1856. Figure, flower
and landscape painter, using both oil and water colour.
He has been also a decorater, samples of his church
decoration and stained glass being well known in New
York and Boston. He has great imagination and sug-
gestiveness, and superb colour. Many of his subjects are
taken from fable and story. He has painted the country
about Newport very frequently, and of late years has
exhibited principally work done in the Island of Samoa.

47 VENUS ANADYOMENE. Loaned by E.
R. Hooper, Esq.

48 LANDSCAPE. Loaned by Mrs. T. K.
Lothrop.

LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS, P. R. A., 1769-1830.
Distinguished English portrait painter, was after the
death of Sir Joshua Reynolds appointed painter to His
Majesty George III. He also succeeded Sir Joshua as
the fashionable painter of London society. He had many
important royal orders for Windsor Castle, where hang
now his portraits of the allied sovereigns, their min-
isters and generals, in the Waterloo Gallery. When
visiting Rome in 1818 he painted the pope, Pius VII., and
many cardinals. His female portraits and portrait groups
of mothers and children, were amongst his finest works,
and no more beautiful or spirited representations of Eng-
lish women and children have ever been painted.

49 MISS BARRON. Loaned by R. Hall
McCormick, Esq., Chicago, Illinois.

50 LADY LYNDHURST. Loaned by S. P.
Avery, Jr., Esq.

51 LORD LYNDHURST. Loaned by S. P.
Avery, Jr., Esq., New York.

L'HERMITTE, LEON AUGUSTIN. Born, 1844.
Medal third class, 1874. Medal second class, 1880. Le-
gion of Honour, 1885. Pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
He was the son of a village schoolmaster, and grew up
in close sympathy with the life of his native village. Sent
to Paris to study, he painted the simple country life
which he had known. In Paris he worked under the same
master as Cazin, a man who, developing the individuality
of each, made more celebrated pupils than pictures.
L'hermitte is allied with Bastien Lepage in the breadth
and feeling of his realistic treatment. His first successes
were in charcoal, and now besides painting lar^e can-
vasses he is an aquarellist and an etcher. One of his most
important pictures was bought for the Luxembourg, and
another, " The Vintage," is owned by the Metropolitan
Museum in New York.

52 WASHING THE SHEEP. Loaned by
Boussod, Valadon & Co., New York.

LELY, SIR PETER, 1618-1680. Whose original name
was Van der Faes was born in Westphalia. He studied
his art at Haarlem, and soon after Van Dyck's death he
went to England. He painted the portraits of Charles L
and many of his court, and during the Commonwealth
those of Cromwell and his family. After the Restoration
he was appointed Court-Painter by Charles II., who also
made him a baronet The number of his portraits in pri-
vate hands is remarkable. There are also a great num-
ber in the various royal palaces of England.

53 DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH. Loaned
by R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chicago, Illi-
nois.

54 LADY FALCON BERG, Daughter of
Oliver Cromwell. Loaned by Mrs. Charles
H. Colburn.

55 LOUISE DE QUEROUAILLE, DUCH-
ESS OF PORTSMOUTH. Loaned by 1
Blakeslee Galleries, New York.

MANET, EDOUARD. Bom in Paris, 1833, died 1883.
Pupil of Couture. Medal, 1881. Legion of Honour, 1882.
Precursor of the impressionists. His pictures are a direct
protest against the Romantic and Academic schools.
For years his work was refused at the Salons. He ex-
hibited, first at the Salon of refused pictures, and finally
in 1867 made an exhibition of his work alone, and ex-
cited immediate attention and discussion. Zoia has pub-
lished an elaborate biography, study, and critique of
Manet, praising him much. Mr. Jarves in his 4 'Art
Thoughts'" speaks of him as the " painter-in-chief of ugli-
ness, which in sincere self-delusion he exalts into a wor-
ship," and as "one of the eccentricities of modern art;"
while another critic calls him a "strong master of a noble
style." He is an etcher as well as a painter, and has
made plates from Titian, Tintoretto, and Velasquez.

56 AUX TUILERIES. Loaned by Messrs.
Durand Ruel & Co., New York.

MICHEL, GEORGES, 1763-1843. Was a pioneer in
French landscape painting and one whose fame is almost
wholly posthumous. His pictures, until long after his
death, were in the hands of his brother painters, and in
the shops of the small art dealers in Paris, where they
were often sold for a few francs as late as 1878. Since
that time, however, collectors have prized them at their
real worth and his fine works are now rarely seen out-
side private collections.

57 THE COMING STORM. Loaned by F. R.
Sears, Jr., Esq.

MONET, CLAUDE. He is the leader of the Impression-
ist School of painting, which aims to gain the effects of
light and air, doing away with the dark brown or black
shadow,using pure prismatic colours on the principle that
colour is light in a decomposed form, and that its proper
juxtaposition on canvas will recompose into pure light
again.

58 VALLEY OF THE CREUSE. Loaned
by Miss Bradley.

59 POPPY FIELDS. Loaned by Mrs. D. P.
Kimball.

MONTICELLI, ADOLPHE, 1824-1886. Was born at
Marseilles, and was educated as a musician, and only
studied painting as an amateur. He went to Paris and
painted under the influence of Diaz and Ziem. From
various experiments he developed his idea of colour as
the prime factor in art, sacrificing detail to masses, and
relymg on the strong keynotes and well-balanced har-
monies of his chromatic scale for his method of expres-
sion. His work deteriorated towards the end of his life.

60 STUDY IN COLOUR. Loaned by Dr.
H. C. Angell.

61 DON QUIXOTE VISITS THE DUCH-
ESS. Loaned by Barthold Schlesinger, Esq.

MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS, 1814-1875. Was bom
at Gruchy, France. He was a celebrated painter, noted
for his simple and pathetic representations of peasant
life. He worked with his father as a farm labourer, in his
youth ; bnt in 1832, having shown ability in drawing, he
was placed at Cherbourg with Mouchel, who secured for
him an annuity to enable him to proceed with his studies.
He went to Paris in 1837, and studied with Paul Dela-
roche; and in 1840 his first work, a portrait, was ac-
cepted at the Salon. He struggled to maintain himself
for years, and in 1848 fought at the barricades in Paris.
The next year he settled at Barbizon, where he remained
the rest of his life.

62 THE WATERING PLACE. Loaned by
Quincy A. Shaw, Esq.

63 THE SOWER. Loaned by Quincy A.
Shaw, Esq.

64 GOOSE GIRL. Loaned by Mrs. F. L.
Ames.

OPIE, JOHN. Born in county of Cornwall, 1761, died
in London, 1807. He was the son of a carpenter, and
became one of the best painters of his time, and his abil-
ities in portraiture are admirably illustrated not only in
the present example but in that lent by Mr. McCormick
to last year's loan collection of portraits, which will be
remembered as one of the principal treasures of the ex-
hibition. Besides portraits he painted genre scenes, and
also historical and religious subjects, his style being
marked by its richness of colour, and beauty of finish.

65 LADY HAMILTON AND CHILD.
Loaned by R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chi-
cago, Illinois.

POURBUS, FRANZ, (the younger) 1570-1622. Was
born in Antwerp, and studied under his father. He was
court-painter to Henry IV., of France, and painted many
portraits of the monarch and his queen. He painted sev-
eral historic pictures and a few religious ones.

66 PORTRAIT; Eleonore de Medicis, Duch-
ess of Mantua. Loaned by J. M. Sears, Esq,

RAEBURN, SIR HENRY, 1756-1823. Was born at
Stockbridge near Edinburgh, and was apprenticed to a
goldsmith in Edinburgh. He first tried miniature paint-
ing, at which he was most successful, and then portrait
painting. After a two years visit to London and Italy,
he settled in Edinburgh and became a very popular por-
trait painter. In 1822 he was knighted by George IV.,
and the next year was appointed His Majesty's painter
for Scotland.

67 PORTRAIT; Mrs. MacNeill ne^ Cameron.
Loaned by R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chi-
cogo, Illinois.

RIBOT, AUGUSTIN THEODULE. Born in 1823, at
St. Nicholas d' Abbey in Normandy, died 1895. Showed
early in childhood great talent for drawing. As he was
about to take his examinations for entrance into the
School of Arts and Crafts, his father died, leaving the
family dependent upon young Ribot. He had already mar-
ried, and went to Paris where he worked on all sorts of
things during the day to provide for his family, and at
night painted and drew by lamplight. Later he entered
the studio of Glaize, on the architectural parts of whose
pictures he worked. From this time he has constantly
sent pictures to the Salon. His work has been likened to
that of Ribera and Velasquez in Spain and Rembrandt
and Franz Hals in Holland.

68 THE FLUTE PLAYER. Loaned by F. R.
Sears, Jr., Esq.

ROMNEY, GEORGE. Born at Dalton, 1734, died at
Kendal, 1802. George Romney was one of the most prom-
inent members of the famous English school of painters
of the last century, and a formidable rival of Reynolds
in the popularity of his contemporaries, although pos-
terity has accorded him a secondary place in compar-
ison with Sir Joshua. He was the son of a Lancashire
farmer, and attained some reputation as a painter in Lon-
don before he was thirty. In 1764 he withdrew to the
continent, where he passed several years in Paris and
in Italy. Upon his return he became one of the most
fashionable portrait painters of his time, and retained his
popularity until he finally retired to Kendal, in West-
moreland. The present Exhibition gives excellent oppor-
tunities of comparing his qualities as an artist with those
of Sir Joshua.

69 PORTRAIT OF MR. HAMMOND.
Loaned by Messrs. Durand Ruel & Co.,
New York.

70 MRS. BILLINGTON AS S. CECILIA.
Loaned by Mrs. D. P. Kimball.

71 JAMES FENTON, HIGH SHERIFF OF
LANCASHIRE. Loaned by Mrs. D. P.
Kimball.

RUBENS, PETER PAUL. Born at Siegen, in Nassau,
1577, died in 1640. Rubens was the son of an Antwerp
physician. His artistic education was begun in Antwerp,
but in 1600 he went to Italy where he passed a number
of years, during which his reputation grew rapidly, so
that upon his return, in 1608, he was already renowned
throughout Europe. The next eighteen years he passed
mainly at home, producing some of his most remarkable
works, among them the " Descent from the Cross, "
usually regarded as his masterpiece. During this time
he built his famous studio, which was most luxuriously
filled with works of art of all kinds, and executed many
important commissions, among them the decorations for

the Luxembourg Palace, ordered by Marie de Medici.
In 1627, after the death of his wife, he began his travels
again, and was called to Spain by Philip IV. the follow-
ing year. Thence he went to England in 1629, as am-
bassador to Charles I., and returned to Antwerp, cov-
ered with honours, in 1630. Here he married a second
time. In spite of his extensive travels, and the diplo-
matic negotiations with which he was entrusted by dif-
ferent monarchs, his industry as a painter was phenom-
enal. Over thirteen hundred pictures have been attributed
to him upon good authority, though it is not to be sup-
posed that the work in all of these was entirely by his
own hand.

72 FAMILY PORTRAIT. Loaned by Miss
Bartol.

REMBRANDT, VAN RYN, 1607-1669. Hisfatherwas
a miller living in Leyden, who apprenticed his son at the
age of twelve to a second rate painter. Rembrandt never
left Holland, and many of his pictures were painted from
his family and friends. One strong characteristic, was his
concentration of light on the head in a picture. After seven
years, work in Leyden he went to Amsterdam where he
married Saskia Van Ullenberg who proved a constant
inspiration to her husband. Besides painting many por-
traits of her, she frequently appears in his pictures. He
left behind him a large number of paintings, many por-
traits, more than forty of them being of himself, and a
quantity of etchings. Among his most famous works are
the "Lesson in Anatomy," "The Night Watch," and
the "Descent from the Cross."

73 PORTRAIT. Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw,
Esq.

74 PORTRAIT. Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw,
Esq.

RAFAELLI, JEAN FRANCOIS. Born in Paris, 1850.
Still living. Studied in Paris and has always resided
there. Became well known first, as an etcher and illustra-
tor, and later as a lithographer of his own works. Later
adopted pastel and oil, and became prominent in the so-
called independent movement in art. Chose to depict the
life of the Boulevard, and especially of the Bourgeoisie.
Visited the United States in 1896. Has written essays on
the Philosophy of Art and kindred subjects.

75 NOTRE DAME. Loaned by Dr. H. C
Angell.

REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA, P. R. A., 1723-1792. Born
at Plympton, Devonshire, was the most distinguished
English portrait painter of the eighteenth century. At
the age of seventeen he went to study in London, where
after three years' work he incurred the jealous enmity of
his master Hudson. He next passed three years in Rome,
copying and studying the old masters. In 1768 he became
the first president of the Royal Academy. He was always
overrun with orders, and had as much work as he could
take. In the height of his success he is said to have

Cainted portraits in four hours, leaving draperies and
ackgrounds to his pupils. His portraits charm by their
colour and composition, and are much sought after by
collectors. The examples of Reynolds in this Exhibition
are particularly characteristic and fine, the portrait of
Mrs. Baldwin being one of his great works.

76 ELISABETH, LADY TURNER OF
CLINTS, YORKS. Loaned by R. Hall
McCormick, Esq., Chicago, Illinois.

77 MRS. BALDWIN. Loaned by R. Hall
McCormick, Esq., Chicago, Illinois.

78 LADY WAYNE. Loaned by Blakeslee
Galleries, New York.

79 LADY LENNOX. Loaned by H. S. Howe,
Esq.

ROCHE. Modern Scottish artist ; has worked in Paris.
He belongs to what is known as the Glasgow school.
Strong in colour and drawing, reminds one of Consta-
able and the English landscape painters of the early
part of the nineteenth century.

80 SQUALL ON THE CLYDE. Loaned by
J. C. Bancroft, Esq.

ROUSSEAU, PIERRE ETIENNE THEODORE,
1812-1867. First exhibited at Salon, 1826. Medals, 1834,
1849, 1855. Legion of Honour, 1852. Grand Medal of
Honour, 1867. He was born in France, and was the inti-
mate of Millet, Corot, Dupre, and Daubigny ; and with
them founded the modern French school of landscape
painting. He worked with the delicacy of a miniaturist,
with great fidelity to detail, at the same time preserving
the breadth and strength of his pictures. After exhibiting
several pictures in the Salon, his works were rejected
for thirteen years, during which time he went to Bar-
bizon, where he lived till his death.

81 LANDSCAPE. Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw,
Esq.

82 PLAIN OF BERRI. Loaned by Mrs.
Samuel D. Warren.

RUYSDAEL, JACOB, 1625-1681. Was born at Haar-
lem, and showed his love of his native country by the many
pictures he painted of the level scenery of Holland.
These pictures are almost melancholy in their conception.
But his excellent drawing, his perfect management of
chiaro-scuro, his powerful, warm colour, and his admirable
execution, combine to proclaim one of the greatest land-
scape painters of the world. In some of his dark pictures
he introduced gleams of sunshine which are extremely
picturesque in effect. He left a few spirited etchings exe-
cuted in a slight but effective manner.

83 MARINE. Loaned by John G. Johnson,
Esq., Philadelphia.

SARGENT JOHN SINGER, 1856. He was born at
Florence, Italy. He is a noted American portrait and
genre painter; a pupil of Carolus Duran. In 18^8 he re-
ceived an honourable mention at the Salon, and in 1881 a
medal of the second class. At the International Exhibi-
tion of 1889 he obtained a medal of honour, and was
awarded the Temple medal of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, in 1894. He is perhaps the most consider-
able portrait painter now living; a man of unbounded
resources technically, and fine natural abilities. He is a
draughtsman, colourist, and brushman.

84 PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. Loaned by J,
M. Sears, Esq.

TROYON, CONSTANT, 1810-1865. He was born at
Sevres, France. He was a prominent painter of animals.
His work shows the same sentiment of light and colour
as the Fontainebleau landscapists, and with it there is
much keen insight into animal life. As a technician he
was rather hard at first, and he never was a correct
draughtsman, but he had a way of giving the character
of the objects he portrayed, which is the very essence of
truth. He did many landscapes with and without cattle.

85 LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE. Loaned
by Louis Cabot, Esq.

86 AUTUMN MORNING. Loaned by J. M.
Sears, Esq.

TRYON. Living American landscape painter. Member
of the Society of American Artists. His works have great
charm of colour and sentiment. The " Autumn Moon" in
this exhibition, is a good example of his exquisite feeling
for nature and is a picture which has had great success
in many exhibitions.

87 RISING MOON— AUTUMN. Loaned by
Charles L. Freer, Esq., Detroit, Michigan.

THAYER, ABBOTT HENDERSON, 1849. Born at
Boston. An artist of considerable merit, a man of ear-
nestness, sincerity, and imagination. He was a student at
the Ecole des Beaux Arts, under Lehmann and Gerome,
from 1875 to 1870.

88 PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. Loaned by J,
M. Sears, Esq.

89 MADONNA ENTHRONED. Loaned by
J. M. Sears, Esq.

TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM. Born
in London 1775, died i85i.Son of a hairdresser. Studied
at Royal Academy Schools, 1789 ; became Royal Acad-
emician 1802. One of the most famous of all colourists.

90 VIEW FROM THE CHATEAU GAIL-
LARD, taken for the " Rivers of France."
Loaned by Mrs. Henry L. Higginson.

UNKNOWN.

91 PORTRAIT OF A VENETIAN LADY.
Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw, Esq.

92 PORTRAIT. Loaned by Quincy A. Shaw,
Esq.

VAN MARCKE, EMILE, 1827-1891. Was born in Sev-
res, and for several years of his early life worked in the
china manufactory as designer. He studied by himself
in all his spare time, to be an animal painter. He was
aided in his studies by being able occasionally to work
out of doors with Troyon whom he greatly admired. As
he became more famous he was able to buy animals and
keep them on his farm to serve as models for his pictures.

93 SNAKE IN THE GRASS. Loaned by
Mrs. F. L. Ames.

VAN DER NEER, AERT, 1603-1677. Was born in
Amsterdam, where he passed the greater part of his life,
the incidents of which are but little known. He excelled
in moonlight views, generally of towns and groups of
cottages, or fishermen's huts on the borders of canals, or
rivers, with boats and figures. His best pictures have a
transparency of colour, and a lightness of hand, and gen-
eral freshness and sincerity which entitle them to rank
high in the Dutch school of the seventeenth century.

94 LANDSCAPE BY MOONLIGHT. Loaned
by John G. Johnson, Esq., Phildelphia.

VAN DYCK, SIR ANTONY, 1599-1641. Was born at
Antwerp. Began to study art at the age of ten, and at
fifteen entered the studio of Rubens. Having travelled
in Europe, he spent five years at Antwerp where he
painted many altar pieces. His " Crucifixion," " Raising
of the Cross," and the " Marriage of St. Catherine,
were painted at this time. The remainder of his life was
spent in England, where he painted many portraits of
the Royal Family. The hands in his portraits were usu-
ally painted from those of models.

95 PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTA MARIA,
wife of Charles I. and daughter of H^nry IV.,
of France. Loaned by Messrs. Durand Ruel
& Co., New York.

96 PORTRAIT OF PETER SIEMENS.
Loaned by Francis Bartlett, Esq.

VAN DER HELST, BARTHOLOMEW,i6i2?-i675.
He was born in the Netherlands. He was a realistic pre-
cise painter, with much excellence of modelling in head
and hands, and with fine carriage and dignity in the fig-
ure. He died in Amsterdam.

97 THE BURGOMASTER'S WIFE. Loaned
by Denman Ross, Esq.

VAN DER MEER OF DELFT, January 1632-1675. He
was born at Delft. He was one of the most charming of
all the genre painters, and was allied to De Hooch in his
pictorial point of view and interior subjects. Unfortu-
nately there is little left to us of this master, but the few
extant examples serve to show him a painter of rare
qualities in light, in colour, and in atmosphere. He was
a remarkable man for his handling of blues, reds, and
yellows ; and in the tonic relations of a picture he was a
master, second to no one. Fabritius is supposed to have
influenced him.

98 THE MUSICIANS. Loaned by Mrs, John
L. Gardner.

WHISTLER, JAMES McNEIL. Living American
artist, studied in Paris, lived long in London where in
addition to many portraits he painted and etched much
along the Thames. Now lives in Paris. His work with
the brush as well as with the etching needle, is marked
by great refinement and delicacy of line, and his colour
is subdued, but rich and distinguished.

99 THE BALCONY; Variations in Blue and
Green. Loaned by Charles L. Freer, Esq.,
Detroit, Michigan.

100 THE MUSIC ROOM. Loaned by F. J.
Hecker, Esq., Detroit, Michigan.

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