The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-26
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THE AMERICAN ART-UNION
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THE AMERICAN ART-UNION
FOR l849.
OFFICERS FOR ls4s.
| PRosPER M. WErmoRE, President. GEoReE w.
AUSTEN, Treasurer. ANDREW WARSEa, Core
spord'ng Secretary NATHASIEL JARVIS, JR., Ne
coydtng Secretary.
| COMMITTEE OF MAsAeEMENT--G Gorge w. Aus
ten, James II. Van Allen, Henry j. Raymond, Eras-
tus G. Benedict, William b. Deem Prosper M. Wet
more, Charles H. Russell, Nathaniel Jarvis, jr.,
John ?. Rdner ETY. William J HoPPin, Abraham M
Lefferts G. Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner,
Benjamin II. Jarvis, John H. Austen, James w.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck.
Executive COMMUNICATIONS M. Cozzens,
Chairman, Andrew Warner, William j. Hoppin,
Frederick A. Coe, Benjamin H. Jarvis. President
and Treasurer, er Q6iciO.
suPERINTEsDENr-J William Moore
PLAN.
Every subscriber of FIVE DOLLARS is a MEM
Der of the Art Union for the year, and 10 entitled 10
all its privileges
Themoney thus obtained CATER paying necessary
expenses, is applied
ORIGINAL ENGRAVING from an American paint
ing, of which the plate and copyright belong to the
Institution, and are used solely for its benefit OF
this Engraving every member receives q copy for
TO duplicates are at liberty to select from the
cravings of previous years. Whenever the funds
justify it, AN EXTRA ENGRAVING OR WORK
OF ART is also furnished TO every member. Every
member also receives full Annual Report of the
proceedings, &c, of the Institution.
second.SIb ne psrchass Of PAINTINGS and
SCULPTURE, STATUETTES in Bronze and
MEDALS, by native resident artists. These
paintings and sculptures publicly exhibited at
the Gallery of the Art Union till the annual meet
| ing in December, when they are PUBLICLY DIS
TRIBUTED BY LOT among the members, each
member having share for every five dollars paid
by him. Each member is thus certain of receiving
in return the value of the five dollars paid and may
also receive painting other work of art of great
value.
Third.-The Institution keeps an Office and FREE
PICTURE GALLERY, always open, well attended,
and hung with fine paintings, at 497 Broadway
where the members in New York receive their en-
cravings, paintings, &C., and where the business
of the Institution ia transacted.
Fonrth--The BULLETIN of the Art Union, which
has been enlarged to includc in addition to the
usual Catalogue of Pictures and List of Subscribers
particular descriptions of works purchased for dis
trbution, of interest in relation to the Fine
Arts, extracts from the correspondence of the Inst
tuition Wood cut Illustrations of Paintings belong
ing to the Gallery, and generally such matters Of
interest connected with the Art Union may be
desirable to subscribers, will be furnished gratui-
tously to Honorary Secretaries, and to those mem
bers who, after paying their subscriptions, shall
signify their desire to have it forwarded to them by
mail To all others the price will be six cents per
number.
Report of the year lS48.-The Engraving of Q,eea
Mary signing the Death Warrant of LADY, Jnue
Grey" upon steel, and measuring % inches by Is.
inches was finished early in the year, and has been
Prints are being taken from it at the rate Of fifty
per day. and the distribution of them will commence
about the first day of May next.
An effort will be made to deliver them as nearly
ms hla ~. be- nrrJar pft h<~ x~f-
tons. Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remittances may expect to
be first supplied. The Outline Iusstassoms Of I2ip
Fan Wsnkk will be ready for delivery at the same
time with the "Queen Mary
The transactions" viii be published and dis
tributcd at the same time with the engravings
The Engraving for Dte year ls49.-The plate of
Youth" being the second picture Of Mr.. Coles
celebrated series q the voyags LIE" is in pro-
who will undoubtedly make it the best large land
scape engraving ever executed in this country.
small etching of this picture will accompany the
volume Of Transactions" about to be published
The Medal for The gear ls4s-The subject of this
medal is the head of Colonel Trumbull, in continu
alton OF the series of distinguished American artists
commenced by the representations of Allston and
Stuart.
Bronze Statrettes.--A committee was appointed
into the expedency of procuring statuettes in bronze
tor distribution at the next annual meeting. The
London Art Union for several years has expended
most judiciously portion of its funds in encour-
aging this branch Of Art. There has always been
difficulty in this country in obtaining proper
workmen, which is the principal reason why re-
duced copies in bronze have not already been made
OF several exquisite statues, modelled by our own
artists, and which seemed peculiarly adapted 70
this mode of treatment This obstacle has now
been removed and there here ut present several
persons lately arrived from Europe, who are fully
competent TO undertake this kind of work. Indeed,
b.. h..at .E III. -. ILL
by BRowN, has been reproduced in bronze by one
OF these artists in very satisfactory manner.
resolution has accordingly been passed, in accord
ance with the recommendation Of the special COM
mittee of inquiry, that Mr.. BRowN be commissioned
to model a statuette in bronze, twenty inches in
height, illustrative of Indian form and character
and that twenty copies in bronze be cast for distri-
button among the members of the year 1s4s.
Etchsngs IN Outline for the year 1884 set of
Outlines, similar to the illustrations of Rip Van
Wrinkle, will undoubtedly be published for the
members OF the present year. The special commit
tee upon Engravings have the subject under con-
sheraton, but have as yet made report upon il
TO the General Board Due notice shall be given as
soon as that body pass decisive resolution in rela
ton TO il.
The list of Paintings already purchased for dis
tribution, numbering already over one hundred, in
cludes the following, TO which additions are now
being made every week:
The Venetian Bride by Louis Lang; Swiss
Scenery, by ID. Huntington; 'Jephthahs Daugh-
port, r. L. by ID. Huntington; Leisure Hours by
Allen Smith, jr; The Shepherd Boy by Ed. Raabs
"A Peep at the Catskill Mountain House, sSusque-
hanna Scenery from Recollection by T. Doughty
Cattle by y. II. Hinckley; View in Berkshire
Co., Mass. Clearing off after September Storm
by Geo. Inness; View on the French Broad River
byT. A. Richards View in Pittsford, VT, by F. E.
Church; view Of Great Darlington, Berkshire CO.,
Mass.-Mount Washington in the Distance 'by
Evening Sunlight by A. II. wcnzler; Looking
Seward by II. G. Hall; 'Othello relating the
Story OF his Life; Expectation, by G.. A. Baker;
'Gil Bias and - Archbishop by F. w. Edmonds:
Scene ON the Juniata, by II. w. Whtridgc; Group
of Peasant Children by r. Zahner; The Inter
cepted Letter. by J. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
s. Roesen; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland
Me- by Chas. E. Beckett; The Sailor Boy" sPs,
trarch's Laura by s. s. Osgood; Duck Shooters
by w. Ranncy; Landscape Composition by r.
Burtord; Winter on the Passaic;' Early Autumn
Study from Nature by ID. W. G. Boutclle; Mid
dleheid Falls, Ct.,' 'Reoollcctons Of Kauterskill
Glove by r. w Hubbard; Jack the Giant Killer
by Alex. Rutherford; View near Rockland Land
ing, by James H. Cafferty; "Now or Never by
II. n. Matteson 'Above the Clouds at Sunrise by
y. f.. Church. sThe Annie of ord hv