His spaniels and other frisky poppets would please Apollo far better than most of the marble nymphs and muses of the present day.
Our Crawford has just finished a bust of Mrs.Crawford, which is extremely beautiful, full of grace and innocent sweetness.

All its accessaries are charming,--the wreaths, the arrangement of drapery, the stuff of which the robe is made.

I hope it will be much seen on its arrival in New York.

He has also an Herodias in the clay, which is individual in expression, and the figure of distinguished elegance.
I liked the designs of Crawford better than those of Gibson, who is estimated as highest in the profession now.
Among the studios of the European painters I have visited only that of Overbeck.

It is well known in the United States what his pictures are.
I have much to say at a more favorable time of what they represented to me.