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48       LIVING AMERICAN ARTISTS.

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DANIEL HUNTINGTON.

strength, secured by his late work upon it. Another important picture which, in its turn, takes possession of his easel at this writing, is an order from Mrs. Saltus of Brooklyn—a composition of several figures, representing an incident in the life of Charles V.

Mr. Huntington is tall, fair, and of regular features; looking younger than he is, despite his studious life. He has an easy, graceful present, and a manner winning as a woman's. Did he need a motto for his crest, we would suggest "suaviter in modo," but not "fortiter in re," at least not in the broad application of the phrase. For he impresses us as one whose nature shrinks from controversy; a main to mould the manners of his time where the stuff is plastic, but not to hew them into shape with rough words and ways.

But fifty-five years old, with twenty years we trust, of work before him, it may be that the most brilliant pages of his artist-life have yet to come. But should he lay his easel by