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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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remembered that the artist,who was bright and full of spirit, got out a little saucer of cigars, and someapples ; and that he took the trouble to go down-stairs and draw some ciderfor his guests. Allstons conversation was full of anecdotes of himself, of thepainter Leslie, of old times in England, and of Coleridge, whom he greatlyadmired and loved. At half-past twelve oclock in the morning his visitorsarose to depart. I thought, said Mr. Huntington, that I had staid longenough. But Allston insisted that it was early yet—only the edge of theevening; and, going up to the lady, he laid his hand upon her arm and withgreat earnestness besought her not to go. Half an hour later, when we re-newed our attempt to get away, he remarked that it was a pity we had toleave so soon. He never went to bed himself before two oclock in thei iiorniug. The painter Cole, whom Mr. Huntington knew well, was a sensitive, deli-cately-constituted man, gentle, affectionate, and cheerful, and funny and frolic-
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aK0 0 & 0 W B DANIEL HUNTINGTON. 105 some as a child. He caught the spirit of our wild American landscape withwonderful power, especially in the smaller pictures painted in his middleperiod. Later in life, having become morbidly excited by the moral ideaswhich he attempted to depict upon his canvas, he produced so rapidly andwith such fire that much of the artistic excellence of his earlier and smallerworks was lost. His best works are in the rooms of the New York HistoricalSociety—small reproductions of autumn American scenery, brilliant still, andfull of ti-uth and spirit. His finest works will live—there is no doubt aboutit; he fills a niche no one else ever did fill, or ever can, for the time has goneby. His Storm in a Forest, in Mr. R. M. Olyphants late collection, is full of blow and fury, and is very characteristic. The last of the series inthe Historical Societys rooms—a scene of utter desolation, crumbling ruinscovered with ivy in the foreground, a storks nest, and

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