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in inverse proportion to their size, little need be said. The former artist enjoys a great newspaper reputation in Belgium, nnd, like all painters who advertise their productions in the same manner that the tradesman puffs his own wares, M. Slingeneyer has a certain mercenary success and a fame among a certain class. There is hardly a redeeming quality ln all his pictures shown. Willems, too, falls far short of his reputed strength, as he was seen in the Belgian department. His finish is extreme and porcelain-like, his contours are hard and inflexible, and his groups of lay figures are drawn without an idea of expression and without an idea to express ; besides, no great charm of color adorns his pictures.
Less distinctively Belgian, and combining much of the French aptness for picture-making and freedom of execution, with a fine sense of color belonging to him as a birthright, Alfred Stevens may be classed among the painters of the salon order, but frequently rising to a higher and more serious effort. A large number of pictures shown comprised every variety of subject, and proved the exceptional versatility of fte author. These were several interiors, beautifully painted, a few trivial costume pictures, a number of charming ensembles and simple but excellent studies. A young girl in blue, holding a dove, called Spring, is as full of poetry as ihe lines of Tennyson it recalls, and is distinguished by ‘Appropriate richness and simplicity of tone with a perfect harmony of ensemble. The costume pictures of M. Stevens aie painted with much seriousness and facility of execution, showing more than ordinary artistic feeling. The collection ^' as a unique and remarkable exhibition of the productions °f one artist. There is a long list of figure pictures which it ^°uld occupy too much space to particularize, and among
cm are many choice works. On the whole there was a Ratifying absence of conventionalism and marked individu- a % among them.
lathe ranks of the landscape painters is found an equal .
v ersity of manner and of individual strength. Lamorinicre,
.' 0 ex posed several of his pictures, is. one of the most strik- ln giy original landscapists. By sentiment realistic, he finds 11101 e f° admire and study in a simple corner of Flemish land- Sca pe than in the most varied accidental combinations of
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