The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-20

PROSPECTUS
THE AMERICAN ART-UNION
FOR l649
OFFICERS FOR ls4s.
FOR l649.

OFFICERS FOR lS49.
PRosPER M. WETMoRE, President. GEoRaE w.
AUSTEN, Treasurer. ANDREW WARNER, Core
spending Secretary. NATHANIEL JARVIS, JR, Re
cording Secretary.
COMMITTEES OF Gorge w. Aus
ten, James H. Van Allen, Henry J. Raymond, Eras-
tus G. Benedict, William b. Deem, Prosper NJ Wet
more, Charles II. Russell, Nathaniel Jarvis, jr,
John 3 R M.st. William p J HoPpin Abraham IN M
Lefferts G. Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner,
Benjamin II. Jarvis, John H.. Austen, James w.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck
EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE.-Abraham M. Cozzens,
Chairman, Andrew Warner, William J. Hoppn,
Frederick A, Coe, Benjamin II. Jarvis. President
and Treasurer, er qDicio.
SUPERINTENDENT. William Moore.
PLAN
Every subscriber of FIVE DOLLARS is men,
Der of the Art Union for the year, and is entitled to
all its privileges.
The money thus obtained CATER paying necessary
First-To tie production Of large and costly
ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGf roman American paint
ing, of which the plate and copyright belong TO the
Institution, and are used solely for its benefit Or
every five dollars paid by him. Members entitled
to duplicates at liberty to select from the en-
cravings of previous years. Whenever the funds
Justify it, AN EXTRA ENGRAVING OR WORK
OF ART is also furnished TO every members Every
member also receives full Annual Report of the
proceedings, Sc, of the Institution.
Second.-I6 The purchase 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
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 is transacted
Fourth.-The BULLETIN of the Art Union, which
has now been enlarged to include in addition to the
usual Catalogue of Pictures and List OF Subscribers,
particular descriptions of works purchased for dis
tribution news of interest in relation to the Fine
Arts, extracts from the correspondence OF the lnsti
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 gratul
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.
Distribution of the Engravngs, and The annual
Report of the year IS4S.-The Engraving of 4" Queen
Mary signing the Death Warrant Of Lady Jane
Grey upon steel, and measuring % inches by l53
inches, finished early in the year, and has been
in the hands of the printer since its completion
Prints 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 nearly
as possible in the order of the receipt of subscrp
tons Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remttances may expect to
be first supplied. The Outline Illustrations Of RIP
Pan Winkle will be ready for delivery at the same
time with the ssQueen Mary"
The ssTransactions'' will be published and dis
tributed at the same time with the engravings.
The Engraving for the year ls4s.-The plate of
I" Youth" being the second picture of Mr. Coles
celebrated series of the Voyage Of Life" is in pro-
gress under the skilful burin of Mr.. James Smile,
who will undoubtedly make it the best large land
scape engraving ever executed in this country. A
small etching Of this picture will accompany the
volume of Transactions" about to be published.
The Medal for the year ls49.--The subject Of this
medal is the head of Colonel Trumbull, in continu-
alton of the series of American artists,
commenced by the representations of Allston and
Stuart.
Bronze Statuettes-A committee was appointed
some time since by the General Board TO inquire
into the expedency ofprocuring In bronze
for distribution at the next annual meeting. The
London Art Union for several years has expended
most judiciously portion of It's 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-
OuCed copies IN bronze nave not Hldue
of several exquisite statues, modelled by our own
artists and which seemed peculiarly adapted to
this mode of treatment. This obstacle has now
been removed, and there here at present several
persons lately arrived from Europe, who are fully
competent TO undertake this kind of work. Indeed,
the small bust of an Indian, beautifully modelled
by BRowS, 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. BRowS 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 l649.
Efchings in Outline for The year lS49.-A 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-
sderation, but have as yet made no report upon 1t
TO the General Board Due notice shall be given as
soon as that body pass decisive resolution IN rela
ton 10 it.
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; 'Jephthah's Daugh-
ter by w. C. Sanders; Coast Scene, near New
port, r. L., by ID. Huntington; Leisure Hours by
Allen Smith, IT,; The Shepherd Boy, by Ed. Raab;
"A Peep at the Catskill Mountain House, 'Susque-
hanna Scenery from Recollection by +. Doughty
Cattle, by r. II. Hinckley; View in Berkshire
Co., Mass. Clearing OIL alter September STORM
by Geo. Inncss; View on the French Broad River
by IT. A. Richards; View in Pittsford VT, by +. f.
Church; View of Great Darlington, Berkshire Co.,
Mass.-Mount Washington in the Distance-by
Evening Sunlight by A. II. Wenzler; Looking
Seward by II. G.. Hall; 'Othello relating the
Story of his LIFE Expectation, by g. A. Baker;
Gil Bias and the Archbishop by +. w. Edmonds;
Scene ON the Juniata,' by Il. w. Whtridge; Group
Of Peasant Children by r.. Zahner; The Inter
cepted Letter. by J. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
=. Roescn; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland,
Me- by Chas f. Beckett; The Sailor Boy" pc
trarch's Laura, by s. s. Osgood; Duck Shooters
by w. Ranney; Landscape Composition by I.
Burford; Winter ON the Passaic;' Early Autumn
Study from Nature, by d. w G. Boutcllc; Mid
dlefied Falls, Ct' 'Rccollections of Kauterskill
Glove by n. w Hubbard; Jack the Giant Killer
by Alex Rutherford; View Rockland Land
ing by James II. Cafferty; CHOW Never by
r. II. Mattcson; Above the Clouds at Sunrise by
+. +. Church; The Apple of Discord, by II. p.
Cray; The Wages of War by III. p. Gray; Anne
rican Winter Scene by Regis Gignoux THE Cat
skill Mountains, from below Hudson, by r. g. l..