Identifier: stnicholasserial322dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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er portrait to his rival,Gainsborough. Sarah Siddons was then in hertwenty-ninth year, in the prime of her beauty,and in the first flush of that popularity which looked when Fanny Burney met her, in 1782,while paying an afternoon call at a friendshouse. Mrs. Siddons had just become famous.Miss Burney makes this entry in her diary: We found Mrs. Siddons, the actress, there.She is a woman of excellent character, very was to make her the queen of the English stage calm, modest, quiet, and unaffected. She has a for thirty years. fine countenance, and her eyes look both intelli- We can compare two aspects of her person- gent and soft.ality in these pictures. Sir Joshuas exhibits her In this picture, her hair is frizzled and pow- in an attitude of rapt contemplation, as if gaz- dered after the fashion of the time, and sur- 684 HOW TO STUDY PICTURES. (June, mounted by a large, black-feathered hat; shewears a blue-and-gray-striped silk dress, with abuff shawl hanging from her arm, and holds a
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MKS. SIDDONS AS THE TRAGIC MUSE, BY REYNOLDS. (PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, LONDON.) brown muff. The curtain at her back is red.On this arrangement of colors hangs a story. Sir Joshua, in the eighth of the discourseswhich, as president of the Royal Academy, hedelivered to the students in 1778, laid downthe principle that the chief masses of light in apicture should always be of warm, mellow color, and that the blue, gray, or green colors shouldbe kept almost entirely out of these masses and be used only to support and set off these warmcolors; and for this pur-pose a small proportionof cold colors will besufficient. Let this con-duct be reversed, headded, let the light becold and the surround-ing colors warm, as weoften see in the work ofthe Roman and Floren-tine painters, and it willbe out of the power ofart, even in the handsof Rubens or Titian, tomake a picture splendidand harmonious. It is said that Gains-borough took up thechallenge and producedthe Mrs. Siddons por-trait; though othe

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