Show 4 p BEAUTY SHOW FA R RIi Ii WOMEN OF FOUR CENTURIES a nations status may Le lie I THAT pretty accurately gauged by bythe t j the tha relative number of Its beau I women find and their at liS well us 1111 by b the doughty deeds lI of or III It warriors has hilI long been ac nc accented j r m ul a I truism 1110 the f fi ut of each class tho moro more advanced I the tho country that produced them Fuir women bravo men with the j events of ot history engross engrossed j ed cd the Iho attention of af artists from tho earl it limes In which sculpture and aud i Ij Ig ero ra practiced In compari comparison I son oll lIh other countries America In Ini i Hi 1111 hns suffered not from a It dearth I mir women but from a lack lac of f K to 10 portray them painting In oil corM corno Into only during th thIn J In which this country was W II covered It 11 Willi not until well Into th I eighteenth nth century In fact that ou our ourI I country produced of eminence 2 like Copley CoVlo W st Alliton ton Trumbull 1 and the tha threw nil 1111 o ot whom with the exception of ot West con can conveyed J f to canvas the beautiful faces o at t many of their fair contemporaries cont I It ItI I i Is IK to 10 them and particularly to Copley t i Stuart ml Alliton that we wo are uro In Indebted Indebted for tOI these glimpses of ot the th beau beaulien il lien Ie of ot past generations There hUll hao been during the past hun tired l yearn n great Increase In the num numb br b r of ot American who have won fi worldwide recognition while Ru Eu EuI roi c tilt the distinction of ot having I the oldest art schools and the Iho but best ex examples 1 amples of oC the old all masters there CUll can ho he hono heIN IN no two opinions as a to America 1 as nil the country of I themes for tor the artist In the grandeur o oHa of Ha lis scenery Its lis history am and notably In 11 ltd 1111 multitude of ot women omen Since the times of or Michael Da and tho worlds art center cellier lUll r Inn I n till to il Paris and London Home as 1111 Abbey and Ing a preference tar for the tho la t named city ell ellIn In which to 10 work If It not to study stud but butIn butIn In view of ot the preponderance of oC Amor A 1110 1 1 Iran Art and In III recent years ear i the perfection of aC un 1111 atmosphere or urt UIt 1 environment to the creation of aC great works ark the tho opinion Is III growing IA that not nat many years will elapse before the art center will be he transferred to the western hemisphere phere The most went us 1111 well as of or the most Interesting exhibitions In which Americana In I particularly prominent 1 l Is that of ot the Copley Coplo society which Is Isnow now 1101 open In Roston It 11 Is called an exhibition of fair has In 11 u Interest and ond oven I fascination that attach to very er few i art exhibits Considered merely as nil an al ali i att ho the tho fair women 1 at IY assumes Importance as In many the most remarkable hie loan cal col collection calI I lection lee lion to ta which the public has hall had al alj j cm 1 It wight with propriety be he culled a 1 century of at American beauties al nl although i though there are nrc In this collection of at atmore more than Ihan a II hundred of or the fairest of ot j the fair sex ex several types Ipes from abroad I It would be practically Impossible to toj j brIng brine together Urn tha of even iJo l O Oot of ot the typical beauties of four ties as Is III dono hero here without stirring many man delightful memories and ant reviving I Innumerable charming stories but when many of or the tho portraits ore arc ai u In from the Die most famous collections of oC paintings In the States the Interest la Is Immeasurably en enhanced enhance hance Doubtless It would have been ex extremely extremely for tor anybody but the committee of ot the Copley society which has lias a the motive of ot UN work the stir stirring ring ling of or a n general Interest In art to gather such u number of ot valuable pic pictures tures turps many of at them famous ones one I as U aswell well for far their thIr owners are ever chary about letting J them out of or their night and care eare Yet here will be found the work of lit masters old and modern brought braught from New York and Paterson where IH Mr Lamberts col collection lection one tit it he finest In the country front from Philadelphia la and from the gl Institute at from Crom Chicago and Montreal and even iven from London and many of the best beat paintings which belong belon In III New England ate are shown with those from outside places Although the exhibition Is II strong on the side aide of ot the old oM moMen especially e those of Jr th early 1 and ond Flemish It Is U particularly perhaps for Cor the fact that more space pace Is liven given to paint painters ers rs of ot the day than any pre previous I exhibition In Boston Doston has haa afforded I them while the society ha hu be been n BO 10 for tor as Os to secure some same beautiful ex of at the work of or the earlier Amer Icon Ican portrait Including tour four und and six Stuarts The Tho picture to which perhaps the greatest national Interest t attaches Is a portrait of at Mr Mra Peru Morton by Gil bert Stuart the greatest of ot the earlier and perhaps of ot all of ot this pore por trait painters The delineation of at features which Is most malt familiar and most generally accented as n tho great generals accurate likeness la Is most famous work but hi his a por flor trait of or Mm Morton ID hi considered con his hioM luoU beautiful and U III referred to tu In III tilt Ilia artists Life as especially noteworthy U It Is owned oWn d by J B A 11 H Fogg of at A number of ot canvases have somo P po Individual Interest One Oil Is J J portrait of or hl hili wife which wa was u II favorite picture with visitors vl to Urn till art alt exhibit at the Another la Is Ills Ids painting of hili daughter which belongs to tho Carne Institute Another tho work of at Huburt Is III a beautiful for tol which a 1 prominent society woman Is said sahl to 10 have A third Is wrapped In u 1 cloak of ot mystery U Ills Is paid to been heen discovered In hI a 1 neglected 1 it in UL iy the tho who owns It Connol who have seen It promise hut When UH 1111 whole story U Is told It will u II romantic one but none of or Its secrets has hall OK al yet yel been beel divulged There Thero are among the fair women two paintings by Corot who Is best known In this country caun try for hili t I ing Inar Jand cale One of or them with sev lIev several eral tal other line pictures Is I tram from the tho val valuable ValUable collection of at Senator Clark of It Montana Two college are ar arre re Mawr by John B portrait of President M Ca Co Carey Corey rey Thomas and y by Abbott Thayer painting of Mrs Free hum Palmer mer formerly Its II ht with them might bo grouped tho of Mm Julia Howl Which John 1 executed There aro other fair tah women of or today In III Inthe the Iho exhibition ond their portrait port ran though Homo of lIt them art are not no tho work of Dt American are nono tho less notable for tol Mrs Mf Potter Potier Palmer of oC Chi lends the famous Camous painting pain ling which Andrea Horn Zorn made of ut her Miss malo J I of ot the seventeenth cen century century tury a beauty of oC the court of ot Charles 11 II by Peter Lely 1 ly Z 2 A Scotch type by b Henry famous portrait painter of or oA I JOM 3 Mme Yin Van Trompe a seventeenth cen century century tury portrait by Paulus Morel c the tho cele eele celebrated artist of ot Holland 4 century American tram from the painting by John W V Alexander of New Ne York ot or the modern school of ot art orl C G A portrait by Trumbull tho painter of ot General In battle and other hl larlo subjects 6 An example of lit early American par por portraiture a lady ot of the eighteenth century by John Copley Cople De D the has sent lent tram from New Nw York her portrait by and picture pl ture of ot Mrs Mr Thay Thayer Tha er has haa also been beon contributed The Copley a exhibition last Ilist year fair children It was wu called wai wal valued at lit The valuation of ot this Collection even exceeds that amount for tor some ome ot of th finest art treasures In the country now find a place In Copley hall One Olle of oC tho Corots for tor example though but the un unfinished finished of ot a 11 young girls head and Is considered by the I New York solitary Jury which lends It to b be worth that Is s lot upon u I revel 11 in III one of feu litres tures of uC tho early Italian group I It would probably Irolla bly bi b Impossible to net ut I price upon u little painting by Manet Man t the great which belongs to Mr J Montgomery o ot Another especially valuable Is by tho Into IntI Ir and 1111 belongs to 10 Charles 1 lIot Norton of Cambridge Much has been excited by hy Sargents portrait of Clr President Thomas Of I college Sargents I lIun us Ia 1110 living pointer would Insure no doubt but It will nol detracts from by the remarkable almost lt Huper human fidelity with which hu ho has put upon canvas fleeting changes of ot feature which oven scarcely per lieI to most to them theIn This IH III ot tho llory told of or one rent to pRInt thi tho portrait of oC it IL beautiful society wo woman 0 man IIan who read Into Inlo IlOr soul loul no 1111 clarl and put IUt he 10 found there ro upon the with Ihl though un In of or how hili brush re revealed reo perhaps that tho womans hus hilA husband band by h the new of ot his which tho Iho lines of the finished picture to him be became b I came cOlne of ot her whom he Imd noer doubted doubt Ill lie engaged do to 10 Investigate her secret life lito and amI what ho hl learned from them broucht about a 1 Reparation rl U Is js this kind of or skill In probing In III painting people Juit OH nil they 10 which mn mode John B a famous and liaa put him In till the high place he ho Ile the canvases a 1 remarkable collection of ot miniatures Is III to 10 be he found In tho Copley exhibition this year far It has lias Interest In view of or orthe the present revival of or this particular kind of oC portraiture many of ot the pieces are of oC great rarity On some same It would be almost Impossible to set Bet a aprice aprice price others ore are literally priceless for tor they ore aro heirlooms and have lain for many generations In family treasure chests cheat The miniatures of ot fair wo WI women men mn surpass In beauty In value alue even the tho fino collection which was no attractive a I feature of at tho tall fair chil children dren last laRt year ar arThe The fair Calr constitute the tho i sixth loan exhibition in tho Iho Copley so planned 1 already shown Hueh I It Is III the ono entirely up III of ot nt lit women A year ago II If 0 fair children were and before that the II Hall lIall pictures from Chicago The John 8 14 1 hl first really JI 11 I hI collection CI cellon of ot Ihu thu works of ot tho foremen portrait painter v r brought to preceded that while the tho hun dred masterpieces and modern paint painters III Int ers were wera the first two In tho II II The Tho women will be ht on Oil view until the ciul 1111 of or thin Ihl month JOHNSON NI |