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by Kunath, a strongly individualized effort, and after the best style 

 oi" portrait painting. Seven by Yirgil Williams in his special line- 

 Roman views — and ranking as the best examples of the style of this 

 cultured artist and authority in art matters, whose name is sufficient 

 indorsement for any canvas bearing it. Two marine views by Denny, 

 the well known marine artist, whose school is known as the American. 

 The artist, James Hamilton, was the only one who painted in this 

 style beside Denny. Eleven pictures, landscapes, portraits, figures, 

 etc., by Thomas Hill, the most versatile artist in America, but whose 

 best efforts are found in California scenery, in reproducing which he 

 has never been surpassed. Three marine views by W. A. Coulter, 

 after the Dutch school, whose painters excel in marine painting. A 

 portrait by the late Col. Phineas Stanton, a good specimen of the old 

 style of piire portrait coloring. Two figure paintings by Bouvy^ 

 whose vein is the humorous and who paints in the style of the 

 Flemish school; very fresh and effective these in their strong colors. 

 Twilight view by Yelland, a finished picture, which denotes atten- 

 tion to details and a higher order of poetic feeling. Figure painting 

 by R. J. Bush — a fair specimen of his style. A landscape by Rix, 

 who paints after the style of the French school — all for effect and 

 nothing for hnish^a style, by the way, growing in popularity daily, 

 much to the chagrin of artists who believe in finish. Four pictures 

 by Perry, who is unexcelled as a painter of American home interior 

 scenes of fifty and a hundred years ago, and in which he hxes 

 history in colors. Two portraits also by him. Three Arctic views by 

 Bradford, wdio stands at the head of this school in the world. He 

 has painted iiothing better therein than these three. Two landscapes 

 by M. Straus, rather florid and of unfinislied character, the tropical 

 swamp view being the best. Six still-life pictures by Brookes, who 

 as a painter of fruit and fish has no equal. Rolfe is admitted to be 

 the leading English painter of hsh, but Brookes' pictures are also 

 admitted to cast his in the shadow. Wlien Brookes throws into his 

 pictures scenery and landscape, he fails utterly, but in his specialty 

 he is simply unrivaled. Three views by Hahn, who is particularly 

 good in animals, and whose " Cloud's Rest," Yosemite, is a remark- 

 ably strong picture, the sense of elevation being produced with 

 great art. Collection by Norton Bush, the well known and successful 

 artist in the tropical. He exhibited twenty-one pictures, the largest 

 exhibition he ever made. Some of the pictures mark a new depart- 

 ure, he having entered upon views in California, notably two views 

 on the San Joaquin in Spring-time, and an evening view upon the 

 Sacramento. Mr. Bush is the foremost of our artists in tropic 

 scenery, and in the rich blaze of his southern skies, the warmth and 

 depth of his southern seas, and the hazy distance of his southern 

 landscapes, he has no equal. In the new line he has adopted he 

 shows hnished pictures with great care in coloring and faithfulness 

 in details. Fifteen specimens of portraits on glass by Mrs. _M. L. 

 Crawford ; good examples of that style of work. Also portraits on 

 glass by George Hansbrough, Laura Barber, and Mrs. M.^ T. Brewer,, 

 showing degrees of skill and making fair exhibits of tiie transfer 

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" Roman Chariot Race," and "Bull Fight," copies by Albert Jenks 

 — large canvases and very strong in color, though faulty in the figures 

 presented. Twenty-one portraits in oil, by Pebbles & Baldwin, that of 

 Albert Gallatin being best in tone and truest in drawing, while in that 



