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Updated: June 13, 2025
It entered the big gateway, crossed a green garden and was ushered into the presence of the Baroness von Herkomer. She stood beneath the picture, her eyebrows bent, her lips drawn, and her hands resting on the stout cane. "Will you come with me?" he asked deferentially. "Where to?" He hesitated. "You will see. I cannot tell you now. But I need you with the picture." He motioned toward it.
Herkomer afterwards imitated the hut for painting from nature in Wales, and he introduced a clever improvement by erecting his hut on a circular platform with a ring-rail, so that it could be turned at will to any point of the compass. Young's tent was, in fact, also a kind of hut with a square tent for a roof.
You could hardly compare Alma Tadema, for instance, with Sir John Millais, or Sir Frederic Leighton with Hubert Herkomer, or any of them with some of your own painters. Each has his specialty, and each stands at the head of it." "Then there is no one man in England like Old Man Rubens, or Van Dyke, or those other fellows, I forget their names, who are head and shoulders above everybody else?
Tate to withdraw his offer to build a gallery and furnish it with pictures by Messrs. Herkomer, Fildes, Leader, Long, are not forgotten.
Herkomer, whom we have recently had with us in Boston, and one or two others. In the evening we had music; the professor playing on the piano, his two daughters, Mrs. Conybeare and her unmarried sister, singing, and a young lady playing the violin.
It was the English nobles that patronized Reynolds and Gainsborough; the darlings of our middle class are Herkomer and Collier. There have been poets, it is true, who have been born of the people and loved of them; and I do not despise poetry of that kind. But it is not the great thing. The great thing is Sophocles and Virgil, a fine culture wedded to a rich nature.
"I have the honor to pay my respects to the Baroness von Herkomer," said the young man, with deep politeness. The baroness assented gruffly. She seated herself on a large divan, facing the picture, and motioned with her knotted hand to the seat beside her. The young man accepted it deferentially. His eyes were on a bowed head, framed in shadows and leaves across the room.
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