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missed and none could have been more universally regretted.

Thursday Dec. 19." 1872 31 Kensetts funeral is over. The annexed per the Tribune is substantially correct. Gifford and I went up through the snow and arrived just as they were carrying the body from his studio to the Academy. Mrs Kellogg his sister sent down for Gertrude to come up and go to the church with the friends but the carriage did not come in time and so she walked to the church through a violent snow storm. It was raining when we left the Academy for the church but not violently and altogether it was a very gloomy day. But Kensett in his coffin looked almost like Kensett asleep even to the color in his face which was preserved so remarkably as to be the subject of remark by every one. Bakers portrait painted for Mr. Olyphant draped in black hung at 

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AN ARTIST'S FUNERAL.
CLOSING TRIBUTES TO JOHN F. KENSETT.
 
The funeral of the late John F. Kensett, the well-known landscape painter, took place yesterday from the Presbyterian Church at Fifth-ave. and Nineteenth-st. In the morning the remains were taken to the library of the Academy of Design, where all the leading artists of the city paid the last tribute of respect to his memory. The body was inclosed in a rosewood casket, tastefully mounted with silver. The plate bore the inscription; "John F. Kensett. Born March 22, 1816. Died December 14, 1872." At the head of the coffin hung a half length portrait of the artist, painted by George F. Baker, an intimate friend. The floral offerings were such as would have gratified the artistic taste of him to whom they were devoted. An elaborately wrought cross and anchor was presented by Mr. Louis Lang; a heart-shaped design of immortelles and tuberoses was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Butler; a medallion, composed of sprigs of myrtle intertwining rose buds, camelias, and tearoses, was presented by a friend on behalf of George F. Baker, who is now in Europe. Over the casket rosebuds and sprigs of myrtle were spread.

A few minutes before 1 the friends of the dead artist gathered around the coffin, and a short burial service was read by the Rev. Dr. J. B. Flagg. Prayer was then offered, and the body was taken from the room. The procession set out for the church, led by carriages containing the Council of the National Academy of Design, the Board of Control of the Artists' Fund Society, the pall-bearers, and representatives of the Union League Club, the Century Club, and other organizations. The following acted as pall-bearers:

Daniel Huntington, Worthington Whittredge, John W. Casilear, Sanford R. Gifford, Thomas Hicks, Richard W. Hubbard, Vincent Colyer, Jervis McEntee, Henry K. Brown, John M. Falconer, Robert Hoe, sr., George Talbot Olyphant.

Among the artists present were: J. H. Dolph, Walter Satterlee, S. J. Guy, J. Q. A. Ward, D. M. Carter, J. E. Freeman, R. M. Pratt, W. H. Beard, J. G. Brown, M. F. H. De Haas, W. H. Powell, Jerome Thompson, Winslow Homer, J. O. Eaton, J. D. Barrow, E. W. Perry, O. J. Lay, James Bogle, L. E. Wilmarth, Charles Parsons, C. F. Blauvelt, Jesse Talbot, Thomas Le Clear, Prof. John F. Wier. C. F. G. thompson, H. W. Robbins, William Morgan, G. H. McCord, J. F. Cropsey, Carl Muller, E. D. E. Greene, Wm. Page, President of the National Academy; T. Addison Richards, John Williamson, Charles Calverley, John W. Ehninger, Wm. Oliver Stone, Alfred Jones, John Pope, Julian Scott, John La Farge, H. A. Loup, David Johnson, Joseph Fagnani, R. Swayne Gifford, John M. Falconer, John H. Hows, Carl Brandt, A. F. Tate, Eastman Johnson, James H. Beard, A. H. Ritchie, Gilbert Burling, Pierrepont Bartow, J. C. Wiggins, Frost Johnson, and A. H. Baldwin. The mother and sister of Mr. Kensett were also present.

The procession was met at the church door by the Rev. Drs. Hall and Ormiston, who conducted it through the center aisle. A quartet, consisting of Messrs. Bush, Rockwood, Beckett and Aiken, sang a selection from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, from the Masonic burial service. Mr. Brise presided at the organ. Dr. John Hall then read passages from the Old and New Testaments, after which he said, in part:

May God bless to us the reading of His word. There are many places in which it is difficult for us to obtain correct views of our being. In the hurry and bustle of every-day life and business, there are certain things which we revere and respect in others; but there are some places where we obtain correct views of the purposes of our being. In the sick-room and beside the dead body of our friends there are no disguises. These views are not always mournful; it would be sad if they were. This body must be dissolved, but the spirit that animated it will be an inmate of glory.

These thoughts best respond to our sympathies when we are gathered, as to-day, around a fallen laborer. As in nature there is nothing which has no beauty to the keen eye and the cultivated taste, so there is no event in life which has not its appropriate lesson to him who will heed it. The unselfishness of character, the gentleness, the purity of life, which in your dead brother, gave him your love and affection are themes you love to dwell upon to-day. The memory of these in the hearts of the living is the best memorial you can rear to your departed brother. Let me ask you to make it your daily business to raise this monument during the rest of your lives. The artist carries scenes of beauty in his mind for weeks and months sometimes before he has an opportunity to place it upon canvass, and even then the creation falls far below the ideal; but the results of our labor are better and higher, the nobler and purer the ideal toward which we strive. Let us keep alive for those who come after us the memories of our departed friends which they would have been most anxious to perpetuate. There is everywhere a tendency to sloth and indolence. There was no yielding to this in the high and noble life which he has closed, who combined so much that was practical with so much that was beautiful. He best serves his kind who most serves his Creator.

Dr. Ormiston then read, "Nearer my God to Thee," which he said was a special favorite of Mr. Kensett. It was sung by the whole congregation. Dr. Ormiston then led in prayer, after which an opportunity was afforded the friends of looking upon the remains. The body was taken to the Marble Cemetery, where it will remain in a receiving vault until it can be taken to Greenwood. [[/Newspaper clipping]]