The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-21

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

OFFICERS FOR is4s.
PROSPER M. WETmoRE, President. George w.
AUSTEN, Treasurer. ANDREW WARNER, Core
spending Secretary. NATHANIEL JARVIS, JR., Re
cOrding Secretary
COMMITTEE OF MAHAGEMENT.-GeorgeW w. Aus
ten, James II. Van Allen, Henry J. Raymond, Eras-
tus c. Benedict, William b. Deem, Prosper M. Wet
John p. Rdner, William J. Hoppin, Abraham M.
Cozzens, Marshall o. Roberts, Frederick A. Coe,
Lefferts G. Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner,
Benjamin II. Jarvis, John H. Austen, James w.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck-
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE M. Cozzens,
Chairman, Andrew Warner, William J. Hoppin,
Frederick A. Coe, Benjamin II. Jarvis President
and Treasurer, er q6fcio
SUPERINTENDENT. William Moore.
PLAN.
Every subscriber Of FIVE DOLLARS is a mem
Der of the Art Union for the year. and is entitled to
all its privileges.
The money thus obtained CATER paying necessary
First.-To lie production Of a large and costly
ORIGINAL ENGRAVING roman American paint
ing, of which the plate and copyright belong to the
Institution, and are used solely for its benefit or
this Engraving every member receives copy for
every five dollars paid by him. Members entitled
to duplicates at liberty to select from the en-
cravings Of previous years: Whenever the funds
member also receives a full Annual Report of the
proceedings, &C., Of the Institution.
Second-10 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 PUBLICLY DIS
TRIBUTED BY LOT among the members, each
member having one 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 4Y 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
trbuton, news Of interest in relation to the Fine
Arts extracts from the correspondence Of the Insti
tuition, Wood-cut Illustrations of Paintings belong
ing to the Gallery, and generally such matters of
interest connected with the Art Union as may be
desirable to subscribers, will be furnished gratui-
tously to Honorary Secretaries, and to those MEM
beers 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 Engravings, and the Annual
Report of the year lS4S.-The Engraving of I" Queen
Mary signing the Death Warrant Of Lady Jane
Grey" upon steel, and measuring % inches by l53
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 nearly
possible in the order of the receipt of subscrip
tons. Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remttances may expect to
be first supplied The Outline Illustrations Of Rip
pan Winkie will be ready for delivery at the same
time with the "Queen Mary"
The Transactions will be published and dis
tributed at the same time with the engravings.
The Engraving for the year ls49.--The plate of
90 YOUTH" being the second picture of Mr. Coles
celebrated series Of the .'Voyage Of Life" 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 year 1s49.-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 Statuettes.-A committee was appointed
some time since by the General Board to inquire
into the expediency of procuring in bronze
for 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
a difficulty in this country in obtaining proper
worlcrnen, which is the principal 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 to
this mode Of treatment. This obstacle has now
been removed and there here at present several
persons lately arrived from Europe who 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. A
resolution has accordingly been passed, in accord
ance with the recommendation OF the special COM
mttee of inquiry, that Mr.. BRowN be commissioned
TO model "a statuctte in bronze, twenty inches in
height, illustrative of Indian form and character,
and that twenty copies in bronze be cast for dstr
button among the members of the year lS49
Etciings 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-
sidcraton, but have as yet made no report upon il
TO the General Board. Due notice shall be given
soon as that body pass decisive resolution in rca
ton to IL.
The list of Paintings already purchased for dis
tribution numbering already over one hundred, in
cludes the following, to which additions
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 T. Doughty
Cattle by r. II. Hnckley; View in Berkshire
Co, Mass. Clearing off after September Storm,
by Geo. Inness; View on the French Broad River
by II. 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. Wenzlcr; Looking
Seward by II. G. Hall; 'Othcllo relating the
Story of his LIFE Expectation by G.. A. Baker;
Gil Bias and the ArchbishoP,, BY =, w; Edmonds;
Scene on the Juniata' by T. w. Whitridgc; Group
of Peasant Children by r. Zahner; The Inter
cepted Letter. by J. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
$. Roesen; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland
Me. > by Chas. r. Beckett; The Sailor Boy" Pc
trarchs Laura by s. s. Osgood Duck Shooters,
by w. Ranney; Landscape Composition by T.
Burford; Winter on the Passaic;' Early Autumn
Study from Nature, by ID. w. G. Boutclle; Mid
dleheld Falls, Ct.;' 'Recollections of Kautcrski
Glove by r. w. Hubbard; Jack the Giant Killer,
by Alex. Rutherford; View near Rockland Land
ing by James II. Caferty; "Now or Never by
T. II. Matteson; Above the Clouds at Sunrise by
y. r. Church; The Apple of Discord,' by H. p.
Gray;' The Wages of War by II. p. Gray; Anne
rican Winter Scene by Regis Gignoux; The Cat
skill Mountains, from below Hudson, by r. e.. L.
Ieonori IAndscape-Pic- Mic Party = Roman