;:.; 'v;V -THE OREGON : SUNDAY JOURNAL, ; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, -JANUARY 23, 1910,
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rule, are wasted'paius; because wherever art find j .
man' big' enough'to'eartl'theme'poasesses'aa
... - individualitjr.'supcrrior.'to them, ;
.- ; "Vanyckquit:the'paintefiin.whog studio.
- he-had 'gone -far; torswell theitlrrong of worship
"tiag deToteesvunder.tbefdist'iiishediBubena.';
, , ; ' ,r .'.One' dayJEuben3-abandohed;in.' '"an "artist's -'..v
.'.',.!,' wearine68,tb'e caiiTason.hik V 'easel. The'i etu
w! 1 dentsy gradually; muslered- courage; to enter ths
i V -. ? open studio', jostling 'one'anotber at: last Jn their
eagerness' to secure; stolen glimpses .'oflhe fa
mous painter's -meth'od. Intne 'crush"fVhn Die
i' ; v '-penbcck fell -against - the .pictoteand - smeared a
, section of it." - ' t ' s , 1", ' H '
. . ; ; .. Horror .'Bcjzed i' on ,:his ; companions, a Jhej
i J - knew v no 'what V&mdign r punishment awaited
,k th$m.'' Their,telror:'mde4them' desperately: bold.
V " ' Could notsomo one'amongthem try "to "restore V
the master's work?. Thevi all:, turned Tto vVn "
1 . Dyck. , Her with. 'no 'feat .whatever, .tobk up the -
. yv ' , . Drusnes ana restored tiio jnjurea detaiM.', s r
s ; ' Iubens 'did ,notireturii nntU,the following
' . .. morning. He drew his students "about. him, as
i- r bo often did, to' explain1 tof them technique from
his own manner of work,' 'and hc selected' the
' vv portion Van Dyck had painted os tho one he
was mo&t proud ot. ;
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"" 7"' ; ' IMITATED -HIS1 MASTER Y,7 "
' .It ,was -Jlatens4 who first,-itbe,yondt..ihe (bound :
. arics'of Italy converted his studio-in to a whole
' salo picture-making, place, where', the overwhelm-
- ii'g,. commissions that "poured iu were'not cxe
i-uicu nun .uiuuy, uuii uy . aiaiH,JHB ..wiio sup-
' plemcnted him' at various'stages'in the." picture's
( growth. '.Van Dyclt was s his most brilliant aid,
' and it has always been, accoimtfida.Wiiical task"
; -of the, utmost diffienltyto'disttngui&li-between
the canvases of ; the'1 two' marvelous r Flemish
. ; ; painters during'th'atjioriod. "
; Van..DycV. became" painter,' in thecourt; of
Charles. I" by 'special invitation' of jthat'art and
. 'pleasure loving monarchy'. ; .' ,',''' 1 i
" .' , Host-popular Jamolitt Jus worksJthat have -
-.".'descended to the a(liniratiou;of-po8tority.are the
''-i s . ;i portrait pf : his royal , patron with' horse - and
grtom near by,"and'tfte cb.armu.ig group of -the
'children of; Charles.. Yt the'sarfie vivid- appre
l ; lofirTl n-f rvnaa eKTI W- vno nnli anna VAn
rrr.VM ;'.,;' in tlie 'well-knowu "Young. Man '.VViJh-.'-a Dog,"
' ' . : : ' ' r,;rr ,"7' r-.".i ". belonging to the, religious ckss, .entitled ?
a ' rr w -w HwW. w u -most .1 xuAUSc :. !' lST j '-v -
.canvas
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, uas.dytng- he matiagedjo smtle -. Jk would be. hard' to, finditnany arttsts - -most lavish manner, he died in the early- forties.
r... , , ., ; 1 . ., , svf.ii Vo; j. . . " 1 r . . ifr extravagant.. At least ,oHe great ,
;.rr ya''9C-f:,ff' - : V'f frmal station vithHeadeTr toddy are' rated-
, ; ,V: "h'Pfnskns masters tUuKatuDych masters fa theirUuK-. ,r f: r
;'- ' and niake-one of those. apprp-iVwhohaveso extensw
' "prlate i ante-mortem'- remarks which the :-fecied tfiewiork ;.ofotherlptaiurettt,hnd;p.er'l- .'Jointers, who -boasted-of following his best tradi-
. Japanese have elevated into a cult of ante- ' h'dpsUmpossible to'flnd:any -fine, who'-'so lonsr-Sir Peter Lely and Sir' Geoffrey. Kneller, -'
Jrtpoefty) kJf
Hon-was
arr of ;BriusHlpawters,i
if .he were known as a 'master o
( , i-ys .'inents as thoughThe had been the one artist of all
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e'alto- ' ' J As 'time. has' gone ;by . his position'has left
una iuk'nru lu-jjw.iamt! auu uuemcU'Weil worinyt
of: study as pnYt: of 'the niodern artist's educa-
'tioii. - And thajtperhaps; is the -jiis't position be
longing to vory-mastenin 'the evolution' Of 'an
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