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Only a Suggestion.

It will be bad enough for the Prussian Cavalrymen to water their horses in the Seine, but if they go to driving their stakes in the Bois de Boulogne, won’t the Parisians think it looks a little like running things into the ground?

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Our Masters of art.

Mr. Punchinello:  The knights of the pencil and easel, having returned from their usual visits to their summer haunts, and having exchanged the blue skies and grassy vales of Nature for the smoky ceilings and dirty floors of Art, (I believe that is the proper way to commence this kind of an article,) your correspondent has visited a number of them, and has obtained authentic accounts of their present occupations, and has also been permitted to make slight sketches of some of their principal works.

Bierstadt, as usual, is painting Yos.  Having entirely exhausted the Yo Semite, he is now at work on a grand picture of a Southdown Ewe, and will soon commence a view of his studio,—­at sunrise.  He well deserves his title of the Yeoman of Art.

James Hamilton, of Philadelphia, is painting a sunset.  It may not be generally known, but it is a fact, that he paints the sun every time it sets.  The following sketch will give a good idea of his next great picture.  The nails are inserted in the sun to keep it from going down any further, and spoiling the scene.

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William T. Richards, of the same city, is hard at work on a picture which is intended to represent, to the life, water in motion; a specialty which he has lately adopted.  It is entitled “A Scene on the Barbary Coast; Water in Motion, Steamer in the Distance.”  The subjoined sketch represents the general plan of the picture.

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Still another Philadelphia artist, Mr. Rothermel, is very busy at a great work.  He is putting the finishing-touches to his vast painting of the Battle of Gettysburg.  On this enormous canvas may be seen correct likenesses of all the principal generals, colonels, captains, majors, first and second lieutenants, sergeant-majors, sergeants, corporals and high privates who were engaged in that battle; and by the consummate skill of the artist, each one of them, to the great gratification of himself and his family, is placed prominently in the foreground.  Such distinguished success should meet appropriate reward, and it is now rumored that the artist will soon be commissioned by Congress to paint for the Rotunda of the Capitol a grand picture of our late civil war, with all the incidents of that struggle, upon one canvas.

Of the artists who affect the “shaded wood,” we learn that Mr. Hennessy, now absent in Europe, is drawing another “Booth.”  Whether this is intended particularly for “Every Saturday,” I cannot say, but I suppose it will answer for any other week-day.  At any rate, here is his last “Booth.”