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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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oductions. To the anmial exbibitions of theArtists Fund Society, of which be was elected the president in 1875, Mr.Hicks has contributed a number of striking genre and figure pieces ; for exam-ple, A Pennsylvania Kitchen, The Vacant Chair, The Garden-Gate, Autumn Leaves, Brittany Flower-Gb-1, Reading George Eliot, TheMorning Prayer, and No Place like Home, which is engraved to accompanythis sketch, and tells a clear and pleasing story. In his pleasant studio in AstorPlace, New York, which be has occupied for more than twenty years, is a life-size portrait of Edwin Booth as Iago, full of deviltry, fire, and force. Mr.Hicks strives to reproduce the character of a sitter in its highest and truestcondition, to become in sympathy with the best phase of the sitter, and totranscribe it. He has an especially profound respect for three pictures, name-ly, Raphaels Portrait of Julius II., Raphaels Portrait of Csesar Borgia,and Titians Portrait of a Gentleman, in the Pitti Palace ; and in them he
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PORTRAIT OF GENERAL MEADE.From a Painting by Thomas Hicks. p. S8. MAURITZ FREDERICK EENDRICK DE HAAS. 39 finds the embodiment and the vindication of the true principles and methodsof portraiture. The railroad disaster at Norwalk, Connecticut, in May, 181very nearly proved fatal to him. He and his friend were two out of tour per-sons saved from a car containing forty passengers. The portrait of General Meade is undoubtedly the finest piece of charac-terization that the artist ever set his name against; rich and solid in color andin sentiment, and managed so as to make an impressive war-picture. Thecommander of the Army of the Potomac is standing on the crest of a hill, onthe slope of which his soldiers have spread their tents, while far behind themin the sunshine stretches the gleaming plain. His left hand rests upon thehilt of his sword, his right hand grasps his belt, and his right forearm presseshis hat to his side. His coat is partly unbuttoned, and near the opening thusmade hang h

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