The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-25

PROSPECTUS
THE AMERICAN ART-UNION
OFFICERS FOR ls4s.
FOR l849,


OFFICERS FOR ls4s
PRosPER M. WETMoRE, Precedent GEoRGE W.
AUSTEN, Treasurer. ANDREW WARNER, Core
sponding Secretary. NATHANIEL JARVIS, JR., Re
cording Secretary
COMMITTEES OF MAEAGxmEST.-George w. Aus
ten, James II. Van Allen, Henry J. Raymond, Eras-
tus C. Benedict, William b. Deem Prosper M. Wet
more, Charles H. Russell, Nathaniel Jarvis, jr.,
John p. Ridner, William J. Hoppin, Abraham M.
Cozzens, Marshall O. Roberts, Frederick A. Coe,
Lefferts g. Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner,
Benjamin H. Jarvis, John H. Austen, James w.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck.
EXECUTIVE CoMMIrrEE.-Abraham M. Cozzens,
Chairman, Andrew Warner, William J. Hoppin,
Frederick A. Coe, Benjamin H. Jarvis. President
and Treasurer, er q6icio.
SvpERINrENDENr-J. William Moore.
PLAN
Every subscriber of FIVE DOLLARS is u men,
Der of the Art Union for the year. and entitled to
all its privileges
The money thus obtained (after paying necessary
expenses, L. applied,
ORIGINAL ENGRAVING from an American paint
ing of which the plate and copyright belong TO the
this Engraving every member receives copy for
every five dollars paid by him. Members entitled
to duplicates are at liberty to select from the en-
On WORK. oRds
OF ART is also furnished TO every member. Every
member also receives full Annual Report of the
proceedings, &C., of the Institution
Secondly Tie pyrchsss 9 PAINTINGS and
MEDALS, by native or 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
THBUTED 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 or 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 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 lnst
tuition, Woodcut Illustrations of Paintings belong
ing to the Gallery, and generally such matters of
interest connected with the Art Union may be
desirable to subscribers, win 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 Is4sZfhe Engraving of " Queen
Mary signing the Death Warrant Of Lady Jane
Grey" upon steel, and measuring % inches by l5s
inches, was finished early in the year. and has been
in the hands of the printer since its completion
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
as possible in the order of the receipt of subscrip-
tons. Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remittances may expect to
be first supplied. The Outline Illustrations Of Rip
Pan Winkk will be ready for delivery at the same
time with the Queen Mary"
The transactions" viii be published and dis
tributed at the same time with the engravings.
The Engraving for the year S49-The plate of
" YOUTH" being the second picture of Mr.. Coles
celebrated series of the Voyage of Life" is in pro-
gress under the skilful BURN Of Mr. James Smile,
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 year ls49-The subject of this
medal is the head of Colonel Trunbull, in continu-
alton of the series of distinguished American artists
commenced by the representations of Allston and
Stuart.
Bronze Sfaf,eftes.-A committee was appointed
some time since by the General Board to inquire
into the expodiency procuring statuettes 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
difhculty IN this country in obtaining proper
workmen, which is the principal reason why
duced copies in bronze have not already been made
OF several exquisite statues, modelled by
artists, and which sccmed peculiarly adapted 10
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 Bnows, has been reproduced in bronze by one
OF these artists in very satisfactory manner. A
resolution has accordingly been passed, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the special com
mittee of inquiry, that Mr.. BRowr 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 lS49
Etchings 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
siderstion, but have yet made no report upon II
70 the General Board. Due notice shall be given
soon as that body pass decisive resolution in rela-
ton 10 H.
The list Of Paintings already purchased for dis
tribution, numbering already over one hundred, in
cludes the following, TO which additions arc now
being made every week:
The Venetian Bride by Louis Lang; Swiss
Scenery, by ID. Huntington; Jephthah's Daugh-
ter by w. G. Sanders; Coast Scene near New
port, r.. l. by ID. Huntington; Leisure Hours,' by
Allen Smith, jr.; The Shepherd Boy by Ed. Raab;
"A Peep at the Catskill Mountain House, ssusque.
hanna Scenery from Recollection, by r. Doughty
Cattle by r. II. Hinckley; View In Berkshire
Co, Mass. Clearing off after September Storm
by Geo. Inness; View on the French proad River
by It. A. Richards; View in Pittsford, VT, BYE
Church; View Of Great harrington, Berkshire CO.,
Msss.-Mouni Washington in the Distinctly
Evening Sunlight by A. II. Wenzler; Looking
Seward by II. G.. Hall; 'Otbello relating the
Story Of his LIFE Expectation, by g. A. baker;
Gil Blas and the Archbishop, by y. w. Edmonds;
Scene on the Juniata,' by T. w. Whitridge; Group
Of Peasant Children by r. Zahner; The Inter
cepted Letter. by }. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
=. Roescn; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland,
Me- by Chas. r. Beckett; The Sailor Boy" Pc
trarch's Laura by s. s. Osgood; Duck Shooters
by w. Rsnncy; Landscape Composition by It.
Burford; Winter on the Pssssc;' Early Autumn
Study from Nature by ID. w. G. BoutcIle; Mid
dleheld Falls, Ct;' 'Recoections Of Ksuterskill
Glove by r. w. Hubbard; Jack the Giant Killer
by Alex. Rutherford; View Rockland Land.
ing by James n. CsfFerty; "Now or Never by
4. n. Matteson; Above the Clouds at Sunrise by
y. +. Church; The Apple Of Disoord,' by II. r.
Cray The Wages Of War, by n. p. Gray; Anne.
rican Winter Scene by Regis Gignour; THE Cat
skill Mountains, from below Hudson by n. G.. L.