Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER A PAINTERS conscience rr WAS said of strung the famous portrait painter who died home aline ago that tie rever could escape fruin fils this was not a handicap alien he had for a sitter some Amerl cun or beruty nho stand the realistic that marks till red chalk drawings it itji a neatter when IL was busy with some one male or female who hoped that the artist would not be too truthful lor there are many alit do not think as oilier Q did on the subject ft hen the great lord protector was for his portrait tip gelil me as 1 am if vo ie lie out a single wart t wont pay you a penny 1 all notable painters have not bein bothered by strung s loe of truth a fact which nicol t be proved by u portrait to and indeed to purple all over he world it Is only nee shar to compare the statue of alie I 1 ather of caun try ty aland in the in va a re allia of was in balgar square 1 a few ye irs hgo gilbert stuart s or of Washl riton to sec eliat his head ot the first Irest deni Is a one indeed the portraits ot the gren man by other artists hive nut the of feature that we tuie come to associate with him nobody imagines for a moment that the most modest of men as far as he was toni wished to be shown to remote vw othir than he ivas can be no doubt noveler squirt want ed to give an idea of his true dignity and character even if hi and to BH fidelity to veracity la do ing so in this be succeeded ainee hen everybody has been canvases an vases represented the real man even if they varied from the in certain details that Is why portrait was selected for our bills and postage stamps so it might be bald that gilbert stuart was not false to his n any real sense of thi word for he produced the spirit of bis im mortal sitter for future ages als case was very different from that of many other painters who set a fashion from time to time thus all the ladles painted by abi work Is in many american collections tend to look alike they have the same areg the same features the sann expression express lon perhaps the psychologists that after the farst picture by had proved a success the women of fashion of the time tended to look like it as it not aalde in the nineties thai ti arles atina galligon the hank and white artist biad created a new ye of girl h karta began to repeat aba malel to ferine will laugh at this as an ab like james ahlet ipas remark that the fos of lon lin did not exist until he began to paint tv evi orated chrle worth |