[This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlap's History of the Arts of Design,--a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist.] "But this painter!" cried Walter Ludlow, with animation. "He not only excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other learning and science. He talks Hebrew with Dr. Mather, and gives lectures in anatomy to Dr. Boylston. In a word, he will meet the best instructed man among us, on his own ground. Moreover, he is a polished gentleman,--a citizen of the world,--yes, a true cosmopolite; for he will speak like a native of each clime and country on the globe, e…
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