Identifier: americanpainters00sher (find matches)
Title: American painters of yesterday and today
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild
Subjects: Painting, American Painters, American
Publisher: New York, Priv. print.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f the canvas. The face of that one of the Queensattendants facing the spectator and standing at thecentre of those behind her, except for a certain soft-ness and sweetness, somehow reminds one of thegreat Spaniard, Goya. The composition has anundeniable heroic quality and the lighting is notablyeffective. It would be an almost wholly satisfactoryrendering of the subject did not the impressivenessof the moment suffer somewhat of an eclipse throughthe simpering fatuity of the various females. It iscurious, by the way, that West, having introducedthe style of painting personages of his own andimmediately preceding ages in their proper costumeshould have persisted in the use of the costume ofhis own day in picturing scenes from antiquity.The women in this canvas and in the Hackley ArtGallery picture are dressed in the mode of eighteenth-century England and thereby quite effectually pre-vent their perfectly realizing the effects intended.That they are not impressive in any such sense as 68
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