Text: N. P. Willis (?), Notice of Charles Lanman, Letters from a Landscape Painter, Evening Mirror (New York), January 11, 1845, vol. 1, no. 82, p. 2, col. 3

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LETTERS FROM A LANDSCAPE PAINTER — A very agreeable, well-written book, by Charles Lanman, whose “Essays for Summer Hours” were so much in demand not long ago. These letters have all the traits of the Essays, with more freedom; as is very proper. Their subjects are such as a poet-painter (by which we do not mean a painter of poets) might be expected to select. “Trouting among the Catskills” we recommend; in the thing itself first, and secondly, in Mr. Lanman's description of the thing. “Our New York Painters” embodies some judicious criticism on Durand, Huntingdon, Edwards, Page, Mount, Doughty, Wier, Inman, Ingham, Chapman, and Harvey — and the paper on Louis Legrand Nobel, does no more than justice to one of the truest poets of the land.