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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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randts j)erformance was less than his promise. Hedazzled expectation, in his Eastern views, by startling effects of light, by brilliantly coloredarchitecture and varied costumes; but all was superficial; there was no unfolding, so to speak,no afterglow, such as draws us again and again to the pictures of the old Yenetians or to thoseof Turner, Isabey, Diaz, or Monticelli in our own day. He did not confine himself to Easternalthough his popularity was largely due to them, his Oriental landscapes, but ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 279 English and Frencli subjects, cities, and sea-ports, Hastings and HeHgoland, Rouen, andLyons and Rio Janeiro and Teneriffe—in short his pictures are a painted itinerary of a largeportion of the planet, and serve a useful purpose as such. The difficulty with them is, thattheir aim is too plainly picturesqueness rather than accuracy, and as Hildebrandts imagina-tive power, his creative faculty was not great, he satisfied neither the poets nor the scientific
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SUEZ.FROM THE PICTURE BY EDUARD HILOEBRANDT. people. For all that, it is hardly fair to him to copy his work in black and white as we havedone in our Suez, since its poverty of motive, and the thinness of the treatment arebrought out in too strong relief divested of the brilliant, and theatric coloring of the original.One of Hildebrandts best pictures, Moonrise in Madeira is in the Corcoran Gallery. Itwas a commission given the artist by Baron Humboldt, Avho wished to present it to Mr.Corcoran. The talent of Hildebrandt would have found a proper field in scene-painting for 28o ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. tlie theatre, or in a panorama, the only ways left lis in which large bodies of people can bereached by pictorial art, and either of them offering a worthy career, if artists could be madeto believe that it is ever worth while to paint for the people! Alexander Calajie, born at Vevey in 1810, is much better known by his lithographsand etchings than by his paintings; and indeed his pa

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