Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 13 Close upon the Peales in point of time, but far above either of them in the merit of his work, we find Gilbert Charles Stuart. He was a native of Rhode Island having been born there in 1756. In his younger years Stuart received and accepted an in¬ vitation from a Scotch artist to accompany the latter to Scotland and put himself under his instruction there. Soon after landing, however, the teacher died and Stuart re¬ turned home to finish his education. At the early age of eighteen, he went back to Edinburgh and soon after, we find him very favorably spoken of in London where many persons of social and political dis¬ tinction vied with one another to sit for the rapidly rising and much loved American. As in the case of the Peales so with Stuart it is the portraits which he made of YVashington that are mainly responsible for his fame. The finest of these is that now on exhibition in the Boston Atheneum. The leader of early American artists is generally conceded to be John Singleton Copley, who was born in Boston in 1737. From the very beginning his portraits stand out among all others for their coloring effects and in delineation of character and solidity of execution he is considered by many to be the superior of Stuart. In 1776 he transferred the scene of his work to England and remained in London until his death in 1815. He was received with open arms by the English on his arrival in that country and to the last maintained the favor and esteem with which he was wel comed. Though the best of his paint¬ ings are in England, yet there is no col¬ lection of purely American works which can be said to surpass Copley ' s earlier paintings which he completed in thii coun¬ try before leaving for England. Present descendants of the Old New England families treasure many of Copley’s portraits of local and historical characters. Often quoted but of far less importance than Stuart and Copley are the names of Benjamin West, Washington Allston, and Jonathan Trumbull. The last named de¬ serves mention as the leading painter of revolutionary history. His best work adorns the wall of the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. About the period of the Civil War, our American painters begin to show a disin¬ clination to adhere to the standards set by the pioneers and landscape work instead of portrait painting develops considerable ac¬ tivity. As is to be expected the first offer¬ ings are to be cherished more for their originality than for their artistic quality. The coloring was hectic and the execution stiff and mechanical. But a more delicate concept and greater ease of movement be¬ comes more apparent as the school pro¬ gressed. Among the recent developments in Ameri¬ can art. we find the name.s of Whistler and Sargent. The reputations of these men are rapidly becoming international and their works adorn many of the public buildings of our larger cities in the United States. This paper has of course been necessarily brief and we have only mentioned those American artists who in some way have added to the claims for distinction in chosen fields which True Americans are making every day in the various intellectual pur¬ suits. „ Lillian Nugent, ' 21. (El )t Journal -printing Corporation publishers of tbe ®Hmbsor Hocks Journal D. F. LEACH Coal and Wood printers Jfor people of Discernment Main Street, WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN.

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