New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-27
Fnrnnenn Art-Gossip.


European Art-GOssip.
AT the same time with the Great Exhibition IN
London. opened the SD Exhibition OF the Royal
Academy. with a dinner, at which Dickens,
Macauley. Macready, Lord John Russell, lPnnce
Albert. the Duke of Wellington, and others re-
sponded with appropriate toasts. The Exhibition
itself does not appear to be of the highest char
actor. ETY. dead, Turner does not exhibit TINS
wear. and Mulready sends but an old study.
Landseer contributes six pictures, and one OF
them, Titania and Bottom, the only one which
is ont of his usual stye-is clearly a marked
triumph The critics unite IN pecan OF praise OF
the poetic conception and the exquisite execu-
ton Of this work. Machse has the Interior OF
Cations Printing Room, picture which attracts
much attention, but which is evidently only val
uabe for its Dutch detail Maclse having none
Of the broad thought and free hand so essential
to the great artist. Stanfeld leads in landscape
with the battle of RoyeredO, the mass OF the
picture being composed of magnificent mountain
scenery Lee and Cooper show some OF their
monotonousy good meadows and cattle, and
Ward scene from the Imprisonment of Louis
XVI in the Temple, which is full of feeling, and
accurately done, and viii probably be purchased
BY the Queen The portraits are all poor, except
some delicate miniatures by Sir William Ross and
Thorbun Finally the pre.Raphaelite Brethren,
p r. b. as they call themselves, dishgure the
walls with more Of their diseased caricatures OF
nature We saw last year at the Royal Acade-
my, some Of the preposterous performances oil
of these iclune gentlemen, OF which DICK ems
made such admirable sport IN the Household
Observation-Disclosures whlch-themSelveS pru-
rent pimples upon pure art-lavsh all their TABOR
upon defects, and stab all enjoyment and sense
of beauty with their acrid angles 1t IS won
der TO every lover of art that the Committee OF
the ROYAL Academy should suffer their walls
to be thus dlsgraced. 1t Is only more serious
sin that some of the p x. B.-Mr. Mlllals' Tor
instance, are men of undoubtdd abilities. In the
last TINES Mr. Ruskn dcprecates the severity OF
criticism upon these works.
From this review 1t Will be seen that there are
no pictures of the highest character in the Exit
bition. Probably the most poetic and satlsiacto-
~ is Sir Edwin Landseer's. Cope's Sisters
is well mentioned, but Dyce, who promised well
last year, receives now only extreme censure and
moderate applause.
With the retirement OF Turner-and we have
no means of ascertainng if It be fnal-the great
glory fades from the Academy walls Last year
three OF his pictures hung togetherupon one Of the
long walls Of the large room. They were Illus
trations Of that remarkable MS poem, The Fa.
lacies of Hoper--an edifce notveY magnificent,
If we might nudge from the specimen bricks m
the quotations But the pictures themselves
burned up everything else upon the walls. They
were Moons and momngs-stately palaces upon
the sea and Sumptuous harges floating onthe very
sparkling CLEAN. Many found them atroclous,'
and unnatural" and impossible" but there
was always a crowd around them, and from every
part OF the room the eyes of the fascinated spec
tators stole over their shoulders toward the
gorgeous appariticn ETY., another voluptuous
coorist VIII be greatly missed, hut Mulready is
undoubtedly only rep0sing, not yet retiring.
In Paris the honors and medals to the artists for
the Salon of 1851 were delivered few days since
by the Minister of the Interior. De Camps takes
the rank OF officer OF the Legion OF Honor, and
MessrS Diaz. zone of whose sketches is In the
gallery Of the New-York Art Unon) Jolevet.
Leon Henry Maxine David, Giraud. Desbones
and Lefeyre, have been appointed Chevaliers of
the same order Many gold and silver medals
We're also distributed
The only recent musical novelty is the per-
Torrance OF Aiar's new opera. lie ire Nozzi."
at her Me|e>ys Theatre Il was originally pro-
ducej hy Lumey with tee same troupe in Paris.
Sonta1 and Lat.acho take the .wo prominent
characters which have somewhat the Don Pas
quaean air Lab.ache canoes polAa-and the
whole STAR j, very amusing The music Is not
new-nut IS pleasant remuiscence of all the
old melodies % Be'lni, Donlzetu. Auber. &c.-
one ViVaciou> critic saws that be j. on bowinr ac-
Cuaintance with every torn 20 the opera Sontar
reappearcc IN London ID la Figlia and the "a
pers declare tha; the woman is younger and the
singer fresher than ever before Truly there Is
no fountain of youth like success. Sontag. how.
ever, IS not great arts; in the greatest sense
To such. she bears the relation OF exquisitelv
elaborated IVORY OF alaba>ter 10 chiseled marble
1t Is the wonderful instrument, never the won.
derful woman
Tamberhk sings with Grisl and Mario and
with great success Mario IS more popular than
ever. Caiharine Hayes. who comes 10 us m the
autumn, has recently sung IN Mendessohn's Eli
lah beyond repIoach" L. Paris. Aubers new
opera Of the - Beskst Of Oraares" Is TO he Gin
ces'an'ly Produced: probably 1t is now playing.