New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-11

National Metropolis, to be placed in that gentisnanS
gallery. The subject Of the painting Is rather hsek-
neyed but the treatment Of more to be commented
than many Of the recent productions Of this versatile
artist.
Mr.. Church's Heart of the Andes, = which has
closed In Boston, created great furor m tae heart
Of the Puritan Commonwealth. Not lees than thirty
thousand persons visited ths picture during The bnss
period Of rs exhibition in Boston.
Warrington is not favorable place for The exhib-
ton ofPictures PagesVenus, which very su,Oess-
full in Baltimore, hardly looked at IN Washington.
The gOddessis her travels In the sweet South,
and, if she should hsve the good fortune 70 escape
csat of tar and feathers of which shs stands Easre in
need than many Of those who have bad sach Kals
kndnesses bestowed upon them by our cbivaic breh-
rem abe viii 20 from Charleston 70 New. Orleans and
thence up the Mississippi
1t has been stased by some eotemponry print eat
daguerreOtype Of Washington Irving he'd SscenAly
been "iouhd;" but we presume that It was ncshne
more than daguerTeOtyp pc Of painted PorsfaA Ma
Irving had resolutey refusedsn requess from nnmA4
fende, publishers, and others 70 cit for daguerreo-
tvpe; he bad nervous horror Of the camera ana AZ
WAYS seemed to dread its revelations There are seven
portraits of Irving extsnt for which be SAT- BESIDE
sketch by barley and the bust by BAH hughe& Inc
first portrait of him painted BY VsndsryD n I~vj
Jarvis painted hin in $780, Leslie, in Lond'n, 10
1893, and Stuart Newton, and Wkie, each about ne
came time. The best Of his portraits, and the one
which has been mOet frequently copied, and n most
familiar to the public, ia that BY Newtoni and On the
basis Of this Mr.. Hicks is now finishing charming
fullength portrait of cabinet size, which is 20 be s
graved. Martins erayOn drawing is one Of the least
Il III IL
sitting.
No woman Of history has been 90 often put upon
canvas as Mary Queen of Scots but the sOrrOws and
loneliness of this unhappy lady have never yet fOunda
worthy interpreter in art IL is subject that tran
seends artistic skill the imagination creates an ideal
which the poet only can satisfy. But artists viii at
tack the subject nevertheless The last attempt We
have known IL that of Mr.. Lewis Lang, who hiss re-
Gently painted for that ubiquitous person, "a gentle
man Of this city," 1.-THE Last Supper Of Mary Queen
of Scots" The title is a proclamation. There h bat
one "Last Supper" known in art or history.
There Is a National Art Association" which has
not vet made much noise in the world, which held rs
annual reunion in Washington, last month, and afer
three DAYS deliberatioR, adjourned TO meet IN New
York on the ID Tuesday of January 1851 j. r
Lambdn of Philadelphia is the President of this Asso-
citation, and we believe il owing chiefly 70
the exertons and personal influence Of one Of s Vice
Presidents Dr. Stone the sculptor, that Congress was
induced to create the Fine Art Commission 70 suPerin-
tspd the orpameniaion Of the Capitol, and Whose
sppointment was the cause of Capt Megss dismissal.
Il would have been well for the country If their APP
pointment had been made few years sooner.
NH. X. Brown has been commissioned by the
State of South Carolina TO make statue OF Washing
ton for the Cspitol at Columbus, but the condition
that the work shall be executed the spot. This s
probably to guard against any Northern material being
employed in the composition Of the work. Bat Mr..
Brown being native Of Vermont, there wiu be .
good deal Of Northern sentiment embodied m 4, We
have no doubt.
Mr.. Palmer has new work on hand, the model
of female figure representing Faith, and, eonees-
sion to the sntnude school Of sculpture is 70 be de-
Gently arsped.
The Women's School Of Design in the Peter
Cooper Institute is in houFshing condition. At least
as far as good attendance Of pupils goee. There are
100 women who regularly attend their studies, some
of them pracieing at wood engraving, come at draw
ing from models, SEINE at oil psinting and others st
water color. There appears TO be great deficiency
Of good models, and some Of the oil paintings which
the pupils are set 70 copy are not OF ho W W ene
much good, except 10 teach them what 10 avoid. In
the rOors below those appropriated to the wOnens
drawing schools there are some remarkably fine pic
lures though the gallery appears to be used as sort
of house Of refuge for destitute paintings. There
an indiscrimnate collection in Of the rooms OF all
kinds of trumpery, sort of artists halbogho,
among which are two platter busts Of hr. ZsdoSk
Pratt, an embroidered view Of Mount Vernon
done in white and green silk, such as used 70 orna-
ment the drawing rooms Of country tayerns haf
century sgo; some meretricious paintings belonging TO
Bell" and Mrs. Parkers ornamental furniture
which includes one of Achenbachs best marine land
scapes, coed picture by Huntington, and some exc
cradle German paintings, and poor copies OF poor
work.. But after escaping from these things, you
come upon the fine collection belonging 10 Mr.. Bryan,
and which that gentleman designs bequeathing 70 the
city, providing it win furnish suitable place PIT Il
in This is the emily collection Of genuine works Of the
great artists that can be this side Of the At
laDtic II viii be public misfortune If such an oPPOr-
tuniiy for securing valuable collection Of paint
| ings for New-YOrk should be lost.
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