The Dickinson Portraits by Otis. A. Bullard

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Notes I 3 3 One is, of course1 an1azed at the

audaciousness of these p~agiaris~ns and yeti at the san1c rjn1ci f-a.scinated by the ingeniousness ,vjrh ,vhich they ,vere perpetrated. Only a dcxtrOl1sly eclec-tjc could ha ,"'c espied usable scenes in so many sources so e~si]y-and fitted them into a dissjn1il-ar narrati,Te so smoothly~ The plagjarizcr's tech-nique ranged from reproducing ,v ho 1 e pages vcrhati m (the o pcra scene) i to adapting ha If sen tcnccs and ph ras ('S of the source for his o,vn narrative pur-poses (the ta pest.ry-room and coroner ·scene.s)1 to seizing on hints from the orjginal and re,vorklng the1n into an entirely ne,v ,vhole (the picnic ~cene). In every case he ha,s condensed 1 omit-ted) telescoped i or ad a ptc d. I suspect that he j5 guilty of many more p1agi-aris1ns thnn those Jisted. I-I ood, as ,ve have seen, suggests echoes fronl I-lor-acc S1njth, G. P. R+ Jan1est i\1rs Sam-u el Carter I-I an, and Bu hve r-L ytton, but these references, Jackjng more spe-cific hintsi I have not sought.

The last word on the Lennox affair - and ,ve shall probably ncvc r kn o,v ,v h ethc r Lord \Villi am ,vas the origi-n a tor or the victim of the plot- ,vas said by ])ilkei ,vho ,vrote in his revie,v of fbe Tuft-Hunter:

This is an a n1 using book - g very amusing Look. ,,.re are nut, ,\!e ho~ gt ven to ~tra ·vagant l 'J. u d rr tlon, but there arc ~ccncs in 'The Tuft Huntcr 1 quite cq ua l to \'Va ltcr Scott; oth crs again of \Viti humourt and pathos "'hich If ood himself h~s never surpassed. It fa a work of jnfin ite variety; and quite original -in its w=:i:y. Every scene recalls and rivais so1nc scene in anotlJ er talc; and th c re :a re felA~ nove]s, good 1 b:adi or indifferent, published wit hj n the last nventy years., of '\vhich the -...v rite r does not a cca~i y · r-cn11nd U5i and ,vith ,vhich he does not cha] lenge n comp:-. rison. In .short, 110th in g great or sma] l see ms tu h rr 1..-e escaped his ob ser·va tio n. 2 9

ALVlN \VHfl'LEY

The Dickinson Portraits by Otis A. Bullard

IN the Emily Dickinson Room ~t the Houghton Library are no,v hangjng a group of portraits

painted by Otis A~ Il u 1 lard in Amherst jo 1840 (Plates I and 11)~1 Recently

l Ed 7.V,-rtd DJ d:in.ton 1 a al on C:,1 n \':8.S, 18 X 14 1nr Signed and dated on the Lack, ~o. A Bullard / Pinx / 18401.

Af rs Edu·arJ Dickbuon 1 oil on can,~a~, 28 X 2.4 1n.

En;il:,, AuitlnJ and Lairinia Dickinso1Jt oil on C[ln vas, l 8 x: 2.4 in.

AU th C"ee p ktures, from th cir sty ]e and the condition of th~ paint~ ~ppcar to have been done by th c sn1nc ha.ntl si:t apprc1x i-m~tel y the S=.l me d ll te.

The portraits came to l-1:Jrv~rd jn l950

restored and \Ve 11 l i gh tcd1 the portraits . give vivid confirmation to the tradi- · tion th at En1i 1 y' s f u.thcr l Eihva rd Dick-inson,. ,va s a hands omc and forceful · man,. ,vhile her mother was rather pale·

as a part of the Emily Dickirnmn coHection presented l1y Gilhert H~ i\1onniguej ~or t 1in ha ppr memory' of hl~ '\V jf e A my Angell ColliE,r A·lonl-a.goe, An 11ccnunt of the Emily D j C kim:on R {) [)ffi ~rpe a re<l jn the Autumn . 19 s I i.'iSU ['! of the D Ll1.'LKTI N l at r~ 386.

In the preparation of the present note I have h1d the benefit of the know]edge -and vigil a [lCC of j\1 r Jay Le.yd a.1 ,v ho has pro-v idc d inf ormatlon at Ya..ria us points~ 1:1.s ,veH as pertincn t !mggcsti on and cou m;'el,

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a.nd unassuming~ Bct\vcen the por-traits of the parents ha n &TS '1. group portrait of the three chil<lreni En1i!y1-:1gcd nine, ,vith her older brother Au st• n~ and little sister . Lavinia., al i three 1 ooking out of the canvas ,v.it h forge dark eyes and earnestly set lips.

In I 840 the Ed,vard Dickinson fa111-ily moved to P1ea5:ant Street from tl1e Main Street house \vhcre they had been Jiving \\•ith l\1r Dickjnson's father and to ,v h ich they ,vcre to return in the fifties. It is quite likely that the porcra its ,vere p1 ann cd to deco ra tc the ,va 1 ls of their n e\v home. j The picn1res are soundly painted~ ,vkh good denl of charm in the palette, ,vhich sho\v.s the chestnut of EmHyls hair to ha vc b ccn ;tn in hcri ta nee f ron1 her fat her. Lavinia ,vcars gray si l kt ,vhi]e En1ily's dress is bottle green1 and she holds in her hand a pink moss rose~ ,v hi ch is 1n atchcd a.ga 1 ns t a. flo\11cr illustration jn her open book. The d,v8rfing of the children's bodies n1ay have been a pdn1itive quality in the 9rtist1s style 1 but it is not ,vithout cff ecti ven ess in em p hasiz in g their seri o u si \vi de. eyed el pressions.

The painter of the portraits~ identi-fied by his _signature on the back of one of the canvases. ,vas almost t1n-kn o,vn ,v hen the portraits came to the Ii o ugh ton Library. A senrc h through the stand a rd sources of inf orn1a ti on on nineteen th-ce nta [),.. Arncric:1 n painters prod 11 ccd little beyond the fa ct that Otis Ar Bullard had exhibited n fe,v portraits . and genre paintings at the ann ua 1 ex hi bi ti ons of the Nation a] Acade1ny of Design in Nev .. · ·York be-t\vcen t842. and 1R53"!' ~nd at the Amer-ican Art Union in 1847-48. Each

Th~ pajntin~ rcm~ined in the l\1 ain Sncct hou sc unti 1 th e-i r r~cent rerno,;:a l to Cambridge.

y car ex ccpt one, his add res~ p1 aced hi 111

h1 Nc,v York City.~ In 1841 his ad..: dre.ss ,vas gjvcn 95 I-Io,vard, Steuben County, Ne,v Yorki and the tit]e of one of his entries 1 Sccue in a Barn in Genesee Cottntyl st1ggcsted the pos-sibility of a "~estern N e,v \r ork state origin. Rather unexpectedlyi a letter to the To\vn Clerk of Ho\V8rd al ulti-n1 a tc] y prod uccd such fund of in tcr-es tj ng inf orn1 a tion about the ca rcer of a hitherto o bscurc An1 eric:a. n paint er that it seems ,vorth recording the find-ings in some derail.

Otis A 1 len Il u l l nrd ,t•!I horn in Ho\vard 2.; February 1816i son of Abel Bullard, ,vl10 had conic fro1n l\1::1ssachusctts to settle in Steuben County as a farmer. He ,vas a ppren-ticc d at fourteen to Augustus A. Olm-steadt a sign and ,v~gon pa.inter. The . a rri v·a 1 j n to,vn of :3. n iti ncrant portrait p-a in tcr inspired the boy to f o How this profession, and at nventy-one he left hon1e ,vith only n fc\V doHars in_ his pocket to seek instruct ion in the n rt~ After attempting ,vi thou t .su cccss to

Natfowd Acadc,ny of De-!ign F.xh:bi-tion R~cord 1826-1860~ i::d. B:ntlcn Cowdrey {New York 1 1943); and! for the ut1pub1Eshed A rt Uni on ,--ef ere il cc, dire ct comnm nk:nion from l\1 j ss Cowdrc y, Cura.tor of the Smith Co] !ege 1\-i u;e:!um of Art.

• l\ 'lrs Ernest f n klln, De pnty Town Ocrk cf H O\\.T:a.rd, found the gr~ ve mar lers in the lo cal cemetery for Otis A. Bu 1 lard 1816---r85;, and for his '\.vife, Angeline A. BL1ll:ud1 18l4-18p. 3:S ,n.::H a._'lj'. for a ::;on, George \V ., horrt 1 811 • She. a]so found the ~ddress of a grandd1ughter, Angeline Blll-hrcl Chapman. lir"ing at present in Pl1ila-del phh 1 \ 11ho in turn ,vas ab le to supply the g rcater pn rt of ot1 r presc nt knowfo dgc of Bullard, the painter+ Of pardcufar Yah1e has been l\1rs Ch3prn;1.n1s copyt \"cry kindly m3:de nvnil:llile in phntostat. of Brief Skett:h of O+ A, B1:1Jfo-rd, Togetlter witb Reconnnendf?-t ions tmd O pini 01H of t be Press in I~ e gaul to Hir Ptmormua of "f'ilcw York City~ puh1ishcd by Bu ltard 1s .igentt Al 1.Jen N onon 1 in 1 13 5 1 (probablr jn Ne,,..~ York City} ..

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Notes 1 35 establish himself jn Ne,v York City, he arrived in Hartford~ ,vhere he hr1d frjends, and ,vhere he secured instruc~ don for about a year ,vith Phi]ip He \Vins~ a ] o cal portraitist~ Accord~ ing to the a.ccount, ':if tcr leaving 1\·ir. Hev,:jnsi he ,,fcnt into the country frorn Hartfordi and painted portraits, and rc.11ized money enongh to pay the debts he ·had contracted 4 , ~' Ii The i tin eran t artist ,vas started on his cn-ree r, and Amherst may have been one of his first stops., ~incc the Djckinson portraits date f ron1 this period., 1840. 0

By l 841 he ha.d returned to I·Io,vard, for early in that year he married An-geline O]mstcad, the daughter of his former employert and took his bride to Nunda, Ne\v Yorki a nco.rhy to,vni ,vh ence she \V rote her grand parcn ts: £Busi n ts.~ a pp cars flatter j ng and the prospect is good for staying aH sum-n1cr, you kn o,v grand pn t hn t o pposi-tio n is the life of business. . .. There is_ another portrait painter in the ,TH-lagei antl there is considcrab]e strife and I think it will be an advantage to both. . . .' 7

r:. Brief Sketcb 1 p. 6. . 1 An ad vcrtisc ment of io. A. Bu 11 ard,

Portrait P~inter,' .stating ·th~t 1J\1l". Bulhrd v.·il 1 rern,in in Am heflit a few '\.Yee ks1 and ,.vii l be happy to att~nd to 911 -prof cssiona l servjces reqmrie,r !i!!ppe!::1red jn the An1herst G az:cn t e and F mnil-y AfirceU.rmy for 7 Ji' c bru-:ary 1840 1 together "\V hh :a laudl to11:--news item. A lcttt:!r of i\·1 rs D c bora h Haskins to her da.ughtor I I\1 rs I·I :1 nm1.h Tc rry, Am hcrst1 [ 8 March 18401 be~ rs w 1 tness to the e~tent of these sc.r1li ccs: 'There is a young artist in the village ::1; 1\-1.r -Ballnrd ral.:mg likenesses Mr and h.'lr.s Bohwood .ue partly ti ken J\1 s.dam Pan; on s is be i [lg sketched this f oreno Ort A nurnber of the St11 dents h11.ve 11 nen taken h1r Edw~rd Dicenson ::-nd their Children are ta ken]" he is succe.ssf ull in getting the cxpre.s-si on of the court tc nanc~' (Bolt\vood Pap ~rs, Button Historical ColJ ccdon, Detroit Public Library; q noted with the perrnissi un of the officers of the Lihrs.ry) . ·

7 Lener j n the pos.scss ton o £ h1 rs Chap m:i n.

Bullard ,vas evjdently a1nbitious to ren1 rn to N e,v York Ci ry and n1ake -a ~uccess there. Also, fo1lo,ving the in-troducdon of the daguerreotype proc-ess in I R3 9i portrait paiaters began almost imniedin.tcly to feel the . com-pctitton of the new· photographic like-nesses. In :.=i.ny case, by 1843 Ilullardl's career as an itinerant portrait painter came to an end~ and he ,v.as settled in Ne\v York, atten1pdng genre and his-torical paintings "'jth the 'morar im-port ,vhicll ,vas nn incrcnsing1y popu-lar factor in American painting. Titles recorded include G ene-rtrl W .ayne Re-fusing the Last Blanket, l~l at ban H tJ!e Just before Execution, Judith i'll the Tent of Holofemes, John rvc Got the Rooster~ ~nd S,nn Slick. A critic ,vrjt-ing for the Literary TVorld jn l 847 <lisp a raged Bull a rd 's a ttcn1 pts :at gen re 1

saying of his picrnre Tradfr1g Horses: 'A palpable and absurd jmitation of i\1ount [WiHiam S. 1\1:ount's pppular painting Bargaining for a Horse1 now O\Vne<l by the Nc\v-\' ork I-:listorical Society]. ,v c notice this gross at-tempt to rob i\1:ount of his identity, because w·c have observed that aU this artist'_s at te 1n pts at composition have been · ev j den tl y b or rov1ed from the same source. . He [Bullard] is still an 1mitn tor nnd end tlc d only to the crcd it that copyists genera 11 y receive.' 5

But _·by 1847 Bullard needed to pay 1 it t le a tt cntion to con temporary com-ments on his small gen re -picture~ for he had found a patron to fi nanc c him jn hi., huge project of painting a pano-rnma of Nc,v York C1ty.

As early as 1788, a Brjrish artjsr. Robert n~ rke r i had ~xecu ted a pano-ramic v ie,v of Ed in burgh, which ,v:is

Q uoled in na rtl l!tt Co,.vd n:::y and H l"-

man n ,:v~ Vi7illia1ns1 Jr, JVilliam Sidney Afount 1&07-1S6S (Ne,,_. York! 1944), p. 1 ?.•

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Harvard Library Bt{lletin jrutalled on the ,vaUs of a circular building. ,v here the spec ta tor stood in the center and s lo,v 1 y turned around on his heels so that his eyes could take in the ,vhole immense scene. From then on, circular buildings ,vi ll 1 pan o-ranii c scenes became popular both in Europe and America.. in the mid-n i net ccn th ce nrnry y· an kc e j ngcn ui t)· in vented a moving pan ontnl ar fhi~ consisted of -a huge strip of canvas ,vound on a. cylinder, ,vhich slo,vly pa~ised before the eyes of the spectator before it was rc\\'"OU nd on a second cy 1 in der. This type of panorama ,,~as ta ken from to,vn to to, vn and sh o"~ n in local halls 'Nith an adn1is.sion cllargc - the forerunner of the modern 1no-ti on pie h1 re. Re ccn t1 y n l\ 1 ississ i ppj panorama of this type ,vas rev j v ed and made the central attraction of an ex-hibition at the City Art 1\1uscum in St Lou is. The great ac hie\~e 1nen t of Otis .Bullard's Jifc \Vas the pninting of such a panorama of Ne,v \rork City4 From J 84 6 to r 8 50 he ,vor ked on this vast canvas, ,vith several assistants) and then took it on a tour of Nc,v \Tork State~ sh o,ving it in a 11 the 1 argcr to\vns. He ,vas financed by an Eng-lish man~ George Doc l, ,v ho put up the necessary . $ r 5 ,coo for its con1 pl c-ti on.

The success of his project can · be ;udgcd by the foHo,ving quotati9ns! the first f ron1 tl 1e Orleans-Deu1 ocrat 1

of· Albio~ Ne\v York, the second f rcim the N iagr, ra C 01,,i er~

BULLARD"'S PANORAl\.1A. This m:;i gni fi cent Painting I us be en on cxhibi-tj on jn Al hi on for SCl'cral days past; and ,.ve can truly say that too much hss not been said of its superior attractions. 1 n our opinion it excelst for taste and fi nc rtistic de] i nea ti on and finish 1 ~ny paint-

ing of the kind we ha, 1 c ever seen~

clearly manifesting to the. beholder the resu]t of great ingenuity and Jabor. It is pain tcd up on 1 8,uoo feet of canvas, and j~ over 3}000 feet in Jeng.th; its .. \Ye 1 ~arn. occupied four year~ and one month, The exhibition at \vhich ,ve v/crc prc..c;-cnt, oct.:u pied about nvo hours, and \\'e think ,ve c1n consciE::ntiously say th-at rare1y., if e\Ter,. to us llid two hours pass n1orc in1p-crccptib]y. so intensely \Vas our a tton tion riveted to the varying t r j ch 9: nd ~plendid ,·iews i.vhich in too rapid suc-cession passed before our eyes.

The .first. a Bi rd 1s- eye Perspccti ve of Ne\v York,. presented a general vie\v, as gazing do,vn from a lofty e mi nencci of the '~mpire City," "\Vitb all jts streets spread out before you - the Lluej rip-Piing ,vg tcrs of ti le ri vcrs and bay j n th c distance~ And the neighboring cities be-yond - the isfo: nd s,. forts, .ste~ mb oats,, barques, barges, -and .S'l i l-craf t that dot th osc ,vatcrs'" surf ace. Then come the v ie\vs of pj.er.s, ferry de.po rs,. with the promiscuous 1 rra y of man and ,vom ~n-ki rid l'"esse] s in port~ lading-· and unlad-io g. Nc.xt \Ve havcf in bold relief, a vfo,v· of llroad\vay! and -all the streets ~s they lead fro n1 1t - the stately palace~ put., lie cdi fi cc s1 n1erca rtd le estab] ishme ats, hote1 si w·h:h signs exact to the originals - bat-tery, p,rks, fountains- men, wom~n, child rcn, equipages, &c., a Ii f ai t hf ul trans-cripts of the Empire City, its p opu lati on and strangers, as they a ppcarcd at the tj m c the Painting ,vas con1 p-leted~ in the autu1nn of 1850 .•••

... Every object of intere!:i-1: in the tcr ri tory em braced is gi \' en to the ] if e, from Union P~rk and Castle G~rden, to the co] or of the ,vindo·w~ curtains, or the iutcrcsting countenances at the wjndo\Vt :n ppa ren t1 y gratifying an a tnfa hie cud-osi ty. D htjngu ished and '-\"cH-known persons may frequently h c rccogni led in the streets-; he is jnd ccd a card 1:::ss ob-sen.~c r th~t docs not re:.1dily distinguiih Horace Greeley from N. P. Willis .. + +

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Notes 1 37 BuHard died in Ne\v York City 13

October 18 5 3, too soon after the co1n-pJetion of his panorama for him to take it out \Vest as he had planned~ In .the hundred jntcrvcning years it has dis-appearedi and js probably no Jonger in existence. Appropriately enough'.! the latest norjce of it that hgs co1nc to U ght retu ms us to Amherst. A huge threc-colun1n advertisement ln the H a,npshire and Franklin Gazette for 10 September 1858 sho,vs that Bu]-la rd 's de a th had not halted its pe re-grj nations. Indeed, a biograph i ca 1 sketch of Bullard jn the san1e jssue blandly refers to the arti.~t as still l ilr-ing~ Hc:nvever1 Albert Nortoni for-•~1erly ·agent for Bu11ard, no\v- appears as the I gen tlemnnl y, en te rp rising and honest proprietor,' both in the adver-tisement and in an accompanying ne,vs note ..

Many of the nine hundred portraits which Builard is said to have painted must have survived to this day .. \'ct thus far~ the Dickinson portraits,. five portraits of the . B ol twood fa n1i l y of Amhc~ and two historical paintings recently traced in the Nev, York art

market 9 are his only id en ti fi ed ,vor ks+ Judging from the Dickinson po rtrai tsi his style is more indjvidual, and his ,vork more skillfuli than that of the av cragc ninctccnt h~ ccn tu I)" itinerant attist. With these portraits as samples, others scattered throughout Ne,v En.g-land 9nd Nc,v York State should now be attributable to his hand.

No reference 11 as been found in Emily Dickjnson"s ,vritings either to th c family portraits thcms ch·cs or to the circu msmn c es of th dr painting. Ho\t-'ever! among· her origjna] n1anu-scrjpts no\::, a~ Harvard one maj .,.read the follo,v1ng:

Portraj ts arc to daily faces As n n e,Teni n g ,vest To a .fine,. pc dan tic sunshjne In a satin vest. i o

BARBARA N. PARKEn

ti T be Arrest of N atbm Hale ( Plaza Ari Ga11erfos~ Inc., auction I February 1945) and Tbt Dougbter'.s App~al (collect!on Jacob Reder; photograph j n Fri ck Art Ref ere nee Library) .

.1~ Ind u ded in The Poems of E1nil y Diok-inron,. ed. A 1arth a D. Bfonch i ~n d Al rrcd L. H-a.nip~a n (Roston, , 93 5) 1 p+ 2 81 and prin tc d her~· wkh the permission of the pub]jshcr:s1

Li td C-i Brown, and Company~

Van· Gogh in Paris

T hcre iJ but one Paris . . . O F the many_tragedies jn Vin-cent van Gogh's life! one of the greatest ,vas the shortness

of tin1c. Fate ga v c him only ten years in which to paint, from _the first cl u rnsy experjmen ts to the u 1 ti mate achicvcn1cnts of color and form. Of these yea rs! there were 1 ess than t\vo iri Parjs 1 so v j ta.l to him acs t hctic:11 l y and emotionally, and then· only t'\vo

more for an the great pain tings of Ar1 cs ao d Al Jvers,. f ron1 the pale pink peach-trees j n- bloom to the a p oca-1 yp tic cro,v.s jn the storm! as through hard ,vork, starvation1 and despair he· passed in to folly and death.

The years in Par js ,.vcrc d etcnninn-tj ,re. When Vincent arrived in Fe h~ ruary 1 8 8 6 ( cha ra cteri sti cal I y ,vithout ,va rnj n g to his brother Theo) he had been painting for six years 1nostly

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