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Italy, The Chosen Land Of Sorrow, Was Sa...
M &< Xhs oTffenxiiS and peptic devotion . Who shall count the flower of ^«^ lS ? eram , ofexiIesi ntf * oftheglbryand tliefeufler & gofW WfrbSurb & i m victims of perfidious thrones , * ott & g in prisons beneath SKeWr Mr . GfcADsrosE Has forgotten Foebio . " God ' s ; jtistice » is misolatee * & tBe mouth of a ehanceHbr bf the Exchequer . Let us not , the fem hppe of freedom . in Europe , whnretre ask the impatient to wait , for . get ebWtdnbur to the niartyra of expectation . We have a sacred debt to pay to the dead . May the Leader never fbrget the obligation . In ttie last week bf last November the Marches * Lttcbezia Gcebbibbi G of W ^ nrox diedin the twentieth year of her age . In thejspring
ovzaga , of the same Ud yeto £ a year of grief and bitterness to thousands ) Emkia BCajok was called away ftpm the side of her noble father , whose exile had been consoled by the tender graces of her patient love . The Marchesa Gvesbxkbi was the sister ^) f Ansexmo Guebbiebi , a member of the FrovierbixaTGbve * flmeni ; of-Milaninia 4 & . Sorrow , at the unhappy fate of her country and at the persecution of her two brothers , broke a young life devoted to that cause which inspired her genius . For whatishe felt she sang
in'words that will Eve in spite of Austnan censors . Shattered by emotions whichwere * indeed , a ' fatal gift , " she had long seemed to find death less difficult than Hfe . The funeral of Ltjcrezia Gtjebbieki was attended by all < Jie patriots of Mantua . The Austrian Governor saw the sacred ^ fiame stiff burning in that dWoted city where Tkzzou was hanged three years ago . The crime of Tazzom was the love of Italy , and the love of Italy brought the genius and the beauty of Lucbezia Gtjbbbieki to an early ffraJe . let us say , in the wordsofa brother : "We knew her not , | ncf beyond our common faith we had no right over her grave . But a ray oftlie democracy had flashed across her . brow . That is enough . Heneef & rth she belonged to us by sympathy . There is mourning in Courts for their dead , let us also mourn-for ours . Queens have at their funerals fiineral orations : let us also compose funeral orations for the daughters of © ur 4 aith . We . shall then perceive bjr the beating of our hearts to whom God sends the better inspirations . **
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Wr t ir 7 r " - ^ TTY R . A . - 2 ** JC ^* Sgf || 5 iafcBB »; . ^ Bi ^ fe . ' Aj 4 » .- ¦ " ^ jf _ " .-AiBiau »« lBr ¦ iGUUsfaziiBt . ¦ -- Bogue . WBAgladlK aceept this , Biography , a & a boiok which offers honest homage ^ to thfti »« niQry of a ' great Pamter andagpod man . Persuaded of the genuine intention with which the work has . beeu undertaken , we wiH abstain altoeeifcer-from entering on the subject of its ^ iterary execution . Our duty Iwar ^ Mh « ifoi » rik will 'have boen-easiiyi > n ^ k is to be hoped , not jrwidaiBg ly ioney TEken lie haye ; c * mgratokt ) ad : hiDa , o » the caore and patience wki « huJ » ftiW # > dl ^ iilajed in collecting ; every available fact , in connexion with h » auiaect ; and . wheijt we h * ye . expressed our thorough appreciation of the just ana candid manner in which his admiration , for Etty , as artist and man , afeows itself from the beginning of the biographical narrative to the end :
Hkvihg said tfefe , we have no more to add m relation to the * book—except to recommend oar leaders to pass over its faults of manner- and execution for tkftisafee o £ ita , ro « tits off matter and . intention ^ , with the same forbearance nkwiU * as reader * ourselves * , we havftendeayoujced to show in the present ¦ xto % i 9 gr Owthasiibject'oi ^ Uy hiiuself , we-must bcg _ permission-to . dwell at greater lengthy because we . believe that subject to be worthy of all attention and honour In these columns . We wit take Mr . Gilcbrist as our guide in * matter * of bIbgrapliJeat'faot , and wil * only dw » w ? oa our own ; recollections a £ « be > patnter , : io passages where his- personal character comes specially and i » OBBa « a ^* ul «> ri » Tiw . . ¦ ' ' , .. . ... . ., the
Xo * k TKas . theQitywhiclvin . t » ft vear 1787 , had the honour of being birthplace of the greatest colourist of modern times . Etty ' s father was a miller and a maker of gingerbread , famous in and out of York for its fine ftovourand magnificent gildthg . The painter was * the < seventh ojbuld of a fami ly if tenj and hi * " first crayon" ( aa > h » himself wcota in after years ) < fc » wMafkB » hwg ' si > wiorth o & wWte oh * lk , '' After receiving a school educa-Uflft . ofthe digStqetkind ^ he v ^ aa apprenticed * at the ; age of eleven and a h ^ j ^ tQ , a , letterpress printer at Hull ; and served his full time patiently and conscientiously . He records , of himself—in an autobiography written for t % e . J ^ ht Jpurnat- ^ -tH & t his resolution to- be « p a 5 n « er- was = * ake » at an early perfeii of bis drudgery * in the printer ^ office . While submitting with tkat . xm 9 < t » nt ' ¦ tw & gentlftJbeJroiiBft of . ohacactesc which . di & tinguishfld turn a . U through ,
lii « 4 to dutM ^ tbfti mm p « w mpmeA . itxn mm hy , others , he contrived to f « fft » f jt , hjft re # pltt * ioa , * y follpwing . the . natural instincts of his genius , at all thjQSQ odd ^ and encU of spare trnae which have proved the first sources of greatness in the instances of so many great men . On the expiration' of his apprenticeship the necessity for h & 'adtntrabte . self-denial ceased ; and he ep >> ke onfronthe subjeet of the oreaft-ambition of his life * . Ifc i » pleasant to Ignoar « hat him aapiratuoMV so nomy »« piwe 8 « e < i far 90 wany baxd , years , were tenderly and fairly deaU ; with when fee , at lost ackaowledged them An uncle , who was a goldlace merchant in London , opened his doors to his
young kinsman , and earned" the lasting honour of shaving been the firat to 8 t * n-t WittJana ^ Etty on hi * caipeer aa a , Painter ; , Ht 0 «« rlknriiaiutiiQa io * Art ware made ata plastor-cost siixop in ghostly Cock-1 « Mq . 1 Hwieh ^ galw 4 sufficient . fUcility in drawling from the Antique to be admitted as a ProbjajtiQnejr , of the , Koyal Academy schools . His next step of importance was to enter the Studio of Sir Tliomaa Lawrence , aiatdl to fiubmit .. his genius , still struggling ineffectually and obscurely to assert itself , tbtihetand ^ g-of fthe-fasblo ^ who batA been raised by team ^ frft ik & imt ! ,. hjr inoJc ^ , h y adnwable personal qualities—by a ^ ytlung aMK « maaNUn ^« afi ^ 4 ing sQUd aad , genuine : gifts a ^ a painter—to all the fM ^ ftMinwr ^ tt ^ iv thfl wor ^ v aucgess of lteynolds himself . Tortunately for hia future career / Etty learnt but little from his master ; but even that
little showed itself , in the faulty p ^ urts . of technical practice as a painter , to the latest day of his life . Iti ^ sadMto ^ fenow that he ever tried , even as a vouth , to learn anvthing from the practice of Lawrence—but it is nothing less than amazing to hear-as we . do hear , from Mr . G & christ- ~ -that in the very last year of nis life , the painter of " Judith" and the " Sirens ? absolutely employed himself in making a " secondcopy" of one of Lawrences pictures ! Nothin * we have-ever known of JEtty places his admirable modesty , his generous tendencv to over-estimate the works of his brother-painters , and his affectionate remembrance of aid rendered or kindness shown to him , m a stronger and more characteristic light , to our perception , than this one little anecdote . , ¦ . . ' „ ,, We must get on as quickly as may be to the few remaining , events- of the nainter ' s life which it will be necessary to notice here . It is naelanoholy to £ now that the kind uncle died before the hard-working nephew had mounted even the first step towards that high place in Art which he was afterwards destined to occupy . Etty ' s faculties , like those of many other men of genius , ripened * slowly . It was fortunate that , his exceHenft uncle I * ft Mm a le ^ a & v ; which i usfr lwlbed him to bide bis ti m e . He failed and
fell often before he gathered strength enough for tha great leap . . bven . the Academy gold medal he tried for in . vain . Year after year his pictures , were reiected at the exhibittons of the Royal Academy and the . British Institution . Still he never faltered , never ; despaired . Bravely , hopefully , patiently , he worked on , with a loving devotion of himself to his art , which no words ean praise too highly . At last , the reward he had wrought for so long ; , came —came late , it is , true , but cawie gloriously as well . Fame was his ^ first thought ; and fame he . won , when , at the age of tuirty-threer . he exhibited at the Royal Academy his celebrated picture of the Coral Finders . In 1820 , the year of its production , this exquisite poem on canvas was bought of the parnter for 30 f . In 184 ^ , it was sold in an auctton-room fbr 37 O _ guineas . The lapse of little more tha * a quarter of a century fcee wrought wnolesome <^ n « es indaed in the puDfic-estimation of work * of modeom : art ! After the production of the Coral Finders , Etty rose to hi » truepfece as one of the ^ eat nainters of the English school . Henceforward , the best
history of his life is contained in his pictures . After gaininghun ^ tame , tuey gained him the academic honours which he prized as highly , ^ ast ot all , lingering lono- after Fame and Honours , came—what was to Etty—Wealth . He lived long enough to see ; and , ash & deserved , to profit by that change for tha better , ih ; the appreciation ; of modern art ^ whwsh . it is the glory , of the merchant-class , in England to , have beencoaainly concerned m bnnging _ aDoiit 1 he lived to win by his own brush 17 , O 0 Q / . accumulated , at the end of his ltf ^ , In . the short period of eight years , after all his finest pictures of earlier days had been sold at prices which seem almost incredibly insufficient at the present time . Living to enjoy this deserved compensation . Me also lived to taste a , greater triumph stilt Worn and broken down by illness , he was yet spared long enough to see the room in the house in the Society of Arts , where ^ in the v ear 1849 . all hia Greatest , works were gathered together for
public exhibition . In this room , day after day , he lingered lovingly among the . children of his fancy—himself , uihis guileless happmess , his . gentle gratitude for the smallest word of praise , spoken by the humblest visitors to the collection- ^ hardly a les * interesting and less ennobling sight tkan the glorious works that huog around , him . To the last , the oldi man lingered near his pictures . When , they were dispersed , and each work had been safely returned , ta its owner , he retired to hia native city , to his second home , never again to leave it . In little more than six weeks after his last return to York , he died of a lung disorder , at the age of sixty-three . No truer man ever lived : ¦ no kinder , purer , braver heart than his ever beat .
His . brother-academicians , hi * friends among famous B * ea ra literaturestudents ^ wfldQl ^ geie ^ vaiitsnr ^ he ^ high , in thi ^ world ' s estimation and the low , all grieved over the loss " of the . genfleV simple ^ his happy privilege to win affection and regard wherever he went . ^ Among his inferiors in art he was alwayi 3 modestly ready to help : among his equals , always honestly ready to praise . If ever it could be said of a man that he had no such thrn ^ as a real enemy in the world s those words might well be spoken of William Efcty > . On his . genius- a & a painter > it is not now necessary fox us to . dwell at any length . He had met with the warm recognition which was his due ,, from all whose opinions were worth having , long before he died . If in the minds of any intelligent persons , of any class , doubts had ever arisen , of late years , aa to the validity of- his claims to fill' a foremost place in the ranks of the
English Schools , those doubts wer © assuredly set at rest when ht » s pictnres were formed tnto one mag « ifix : enti collection by- the Society of Arts . Tho so-oalled " moral , " objectwna to so » e of : hi & workav wie propose to leave entirely unnoticed in these columns . Wo believe that the nasty-ininded people who infesfr the world may be divided into two classes : —First , the frankly nasty , whose admiration of the " nude" in pictures is an openly lascivious admiration ; secondly , the hypocritically nasty ( or worst class of the 1 two )^ whoso horror of this same " nude " is a , secretly-lasciviouft horror . Any attempt , at reftsqning -vwith , either of these two classes we . consider to bo utterly usfiless . If no sensible person ever took any notices of them or their objections , wo are firmly persuaded that they would be more damaged aa a party than by all the moral and logical confutations in the world . A second objection urged against somo of Ktty 8 pictures—the smaller almost
© xolusiv « ly —• we are-willing to treat with greater deference , for it ) is not altogether unfounded . It seems , indeed , utid # niAltI » fcbat this , great master of hm art sutFeired uis awn health ^ au , d pure admiration of th « human form to lead biiu , on too , many occasions ,, into condescending to a , species of painter ' s-work which was unworthy of "his powers . His mere studies , from the living model , in which the p icture was done first , and the subject found out afterwards , are unrivalled specimens of fJeah-painting , and nothing more . In tho case of a second-rnte man , thia would' be muoh to > say ; in the case of the painter off the " Sixena , " it i » sunply a fault ; thft only important fault that can fukly be charged , against him on a general' viaw . of lu ' s works . Stilly when every due allowance ha / been made for thia defect , the great achievements ofEtty rotnahi to spqak for him indisputably before all contemporary rivals in hia own line . Amongr his historical picturea on a large scnlc , Tx > rks like the ' * Judith' * ' —especially thi > notolc first compartment in which thu
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/18/
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