Identifier: artinamericacri00benj (find matches)
Title: Art in America; a critical and historical sketch
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914
Subjects: Art, American Art
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FANNY KIMBLE. (THOMAS SULLY.) Mnun will be longest and best remembered by his vivid and characteristic paint-ing of Patrick Lyon, the blacksmith, at his forge. This picture now hangsin the elegant gallery of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, whereseveral of the masterpieces of our early painters may be seen hangingin company with it, among them Wests Christ Rejected, YanderlynsAriadne, and Allstons Dead Man Restored to Life. Born the year of the Declaration of Independence, John Yanderlyn.like most of the leading artists of this period of whom we are writing.lived to old age. His days were filled with hardships and vicissitudes: 30 ART IN AMERICA. and, unless he has since become aware of the fame lie left behind, he wasone of many to whom life has been a very questionable boon. Vanderlyn was a farmers boy on the Hudson River. It was one ofthose curious incidents by which Destiny sometimes makes us think there
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ARIADXE. (JOHN YAXDERLYN.) may be, after all, something more than blind action in her ways, thatAaron Burr, passing by his fathers house, saw some rude sketches of therustic lad with that keen eye of his. Burr discerned in them signs ofpromise, and invited him to come to Xew York. When Vanderlyn ar-rived Burr treated him kindly. Eventually the painter made a portraitof Theodosia, the beautiful and ill-fated daughter of his benefactor; andwhen Burr was under a cloud and found himself destitute in Europe, itwas Vanderlyn who received and gave him shelter. Much of the art-life of this painter was passed at Rome and in Paris.His varied fortunes, and the constant adversity that baffled him at everystep, obliged him to resort to many a pitiful shift to keep soul and bodytogether. It is owing to this cause that he so rarely found opportunity todo justice to the undoubted ability he possessed. EARLY AMERICAN ART. 31 But Yanderlyn left at least two important creations, marked by gen-nine artis

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