Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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e elder brother, equally honorable and equally a friend of his fellowman, was not, unfortunately, of so equable a temper, but more nervous and some-what moody, was not always understood at his real personal worth; no one know-ing him, however, could fail to appreciate his just impartiality towards otherartists, or the fearless integrity with which, regardless of self-interest, he stood forthe rights of man. In his art his works show him to be pre-eminent, particularly in sculpture, hislandscape studies and his painting of the human head in his happiest experiments(for experiment he often did), and in his drawing and painting of the humanfigure, he is beyond and above criticism. A consummate anatomist, an acute ob-server, there is nothing to be found in his works that has been carelessly con-sidered. His portrait of his brother Godfrey impresses me, as I remember it, asthe grandest work of art I ever saw ; and his sculptures, particularly the head of The Dexter Mausoleum, Spring Grove.
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This drawing was made about 1856 of one of Longworths vineyards on the Ohio hills,four miles above the city. The cultivation of the grape for wine has ceased, being foundby change of climate unprofitable, 133 HAMILTON COUNTY. 135 McLean and also that of Dr. Mussey, have not been surpassed, if they have beenequalled, in the last two thousand years. His painting led all that the later pil-grims to Munich have essayed, and his sculpture may stand, unbelittled, by theside of that of the Greeks in their best period. There were several artists, now dead, who came upon the Cincinnati stage laterthan the Frankensteins. Thomas Buchanan Read, more celebrated as a poet thanas a painter, exhibited, according to John Frankenstein, extraordinary genius inthe commencement of his artistic career (about 1840), and attained very consider-able power, considering that his direct preparatory studies were curtailed by hismore intimate and assiduous attention to his poetic muse. He wrote the war-ballad, She

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