Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — History of a Picture. [ARTICLE]

History of a Picture.

Two of the most celebrated artists the world has ever known dwelt in the same city. One delighted la delineating beauty in all its graces of tint, form and motion. Bls portraits were instinct with the charm of physical vigor. The graceful, half-voluptu-ous outline of form and feature harmonized with delicately blended tints.’ On his canvas, the homellest'fices had an almost Irresistible charm. The other found pleasure only in depicting weird and gloomy subjects. Above all, did he excel in painting the portraits of the dying. The agonising deaththroe, the ghastly face and‘form, We resll depleted with marvelous fidelity. Thera existed between these artiste the most intense dislike. At length this dislike <N*lmina,ted. The beauty-loving artist had been engaged in painting the portrait of a beautiful woman. Connoisseurs pronounced it. the most wonderful piece of art that hktl Aver been produced. His brother artist was jealous of his fame and sought revenge. By bribing the keeper of the studio he gained access to the picture each night. At lint he was content to only deaden the brilliancy of the complexion and eyes, efface , the bloom from cheek and lip and paint a shadow on either cheek. .Later, his strokes grew bolder and freer, and one morning the artist awoke to find the entire outline ot the' portrait changed. He couldscarcely recognise in the emaciated form and haggard countenance the glowing conception fee had embodied. The pallid face and expressionless eyes he had attributed to a lack of .genuineness in his materials; but when the outlines were changed he suspected the catoie ahd indignantly dismissedtfeekMpfr.- M*ak toe.ievengeful artist marred by a few rapid strokes of his skillful brush was. only restored by years of patient industry. Beader, need we name the artists—Health, who pafnttr the flowers and “gras*? carpet" no teas th»U the human form divine—disease, the dreaded artist who revels among the autos both of nature and humanity, and Carelessness, the keeper to whom Health often intrusts his portraits. And is it not the beauty of woman, the most admired of all the works which adorn the studio of Health, that Disease oftenest seeks to marl The slightest stroke of his brush upon the delicate Argan iakill and patience? to must be prompt. Carelessness must bexliamissed- Let .suffering women, heed the warning ere Disease has tnarfod thfeir chief by thousands of these sufferers, and Jthey are unanimous in their praise of its excellence'. If VoU would be transformed jromthe pallid, ---i 8 ~,,, j,,, _— mat- value. .Probably no investment of 25-cents in medicine will be found to yield such grateful relief from pain and suffering as these plasters. Make a trial of them.