New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-29
ART ITEMS.
by GHtav Leb

lot bis life by On accident willie hauting 10 the forea
Fon,sio. eau, was killed in a oael. Bat It Wa CO.
other French artist Alfred de Dreux Who fell on sss
miscaled field Of hoLor. DE Dreux ctaoes se very
well known In this untry, both from the onsasls
ard copies bat they have been very hishly e.
tened His forte lay in painting nsty .oOki,g
ero mr., wsll-costumed ladies' IN long ridiog dres.ss
and bones with 90 in skius aud legs If impossible ss
derpeas kind of animals which are so graphically
d. scIited in the lines OF Sir pjsmin Ba,kbie SAFE
| n. yer were seen tso such beautiful ponies &c.
One of he sbarpls drawn Characters 10 Wdkis
Coins's story Of The Woman ia White, reprs-b@
very mum. rous class Ct srparasies VIII, are asu.l@
regarded AZ patrons and i-eurs; whose opai 80
are deferred TO- aud vho-e tastes consulted BY
srss,s aud ama,eus; but who are 10 fact Buisaooes
il social Ii snd the bue-bears Of sud- g. Dir. FAIR
he the character IN gu. st A. s something f carr
cstu,e 10 be sure bat the Of classes
oene1sly are 80. lie has monry in sbunds 90 70
ots,ify lis tas ~ but hs MORBID ana wbin-
sicsI all his h.sltby ard msns ins'iocs, If lie e-r
had any have been refined out Of bin and he has b.
oome on. rulous exsctir fish, aud delicate sA
the slsumirg Of door pat him 10 misery He dovotss
Linsslf TO the colec ion of IA tiles 10 art, ssd
will suffer u 6eserv yoopg H'st to stsrys
far in k of commisei n while he squsnders hs
come or curious truDpeiy, which rss nothing 10 re-
comuapd iself n him but its coe'liness snd rarity.
O iects with The vulgar poor cannot p1ro1a.e ssd
Inch me genuine lover of would not possess il hs
could are Il trtasurs upon uhich he pIiee hia
elf ard lavishes bis wealth. There are good mssy
Mr. Farl e. OH ibis eide Of tie Atlantic, regret 70
say; snd we know of oue Who, on b.i g skid tivs
mis-, ion TO youf Ann ricsn artist ~ho "ss Try
ing 20 raise sufficient means 10 mplee hs s'uiies In
EuroEe, proposed to give $3.50 for copy OF Picss~
| in Drttdeu which onld have required six uSotss
inc. sssrt labor npG-hi while be gave Gern1
| ar1t three times hat sum for small peo-ahd INK
sketch that could not have occupied thsu ssh
hours time 10 the execution. Bot the German arsss
WAS a man Of mark and the Amer can bad he nvt
10 make Bur, had not Mr.. Fsle right to spent his
money in lis own way OF course, he had; aud 10
do not quarrel With him for dol it. All obj.Ot W
ia that our cotemp,ra'y iiiots," CHARLES Resde
ssys will persist 10 cslli such people "Is'rous Of
art F." and pay them spscial marks Of houor 1t ths
Mr. Farliss take of their hafs 10 esch Cher bat Ar
lists should baye too much respect for themselves to
make obesanc. TO such humbuRs.
We regret learn that Mr.. George Irness the land
scaue painter who is now heiog 10 a country vlsse
in Massachuetts has been li.ds appreciated by
arparons that be lie mo are ntely suffering for tho
necessities of life." IL is 20 stated by Ne York
Journal but we trust there ia exagRersiion ia tss
way of putting 1t. The necessaries of life 10 artist
Of Lis simple ard unobtrusive habits living 10 quiet
New RlaI village must be very email indeed, and
If he sold but half the pctu es which he has exhbei
6uripg the past year st 1.-THE of their trn,c vaIds
be ought 10 be u very comic rabe circumstances Mr..
Inness is man of unquestionsble genias he is cf
the finest and poetca interpreters # Nators in Der
quie moods among our landscape painters. He f1llo "
no master but adopts bis meth ds Of expressisg
his ideas. Let thCse who wisb to know Shs be "a DO
drop in at the exhibition gallery of Mr. Nichols, tbs
corner of Broadway al Eighth street, where may DO
seen email canvas recently from the easel Of Mr.
Irness. 1t lie Characteristic New-England hndscape
as full Of color as one Of Dazs woodland csnee AID
| IA fresh AZ real Ruysd4els dewy scenes. IL Is
| called After TIE Shower" tie subshine breaks ia
| upon the middle oiFtance, rainbow yet lcgen in tho
air lively breeze is driving away the vspoy cosds
whose shade sweep tho foreground. 1t fall
Of the sweetest touches of nature and if Il remains
cold WI en- the pec'sies of the artist are koo VI, Il
will he becaue there are more Ne. Fairies" among
our ictuTe buyers than we had imagined
Our od-school picture dealers used TO eesl excss-
syely in the works Of the old masters the only arr
me- chandise which they imported aud kept on dsnd.
WAS abeled Titiao, Rubens, Vsudyck, Muhl',
Caracci Guido Reynolds, Ruysdasl, Claude Lorraine,
| Rapi asl, Tenires, &c. But the school Of art
traders ignore the old s,ers and it has been fousd
necessary to import the latest works Of the moders
masters 10 attract purchasers 10 the saes-rooms Of
| picture dealers. The old masters bave been played
out. TIE fne-art dealers in Broadway nov afford
our public opportunities Of becoming acquainted With
| the new artists Of Germany, France, and Eoeland-
The beet examples Of the three schools may be uud In
the rooms of Goupil Co., Of Mic 'os of Snsdeoor.
and of Schsus II is est privilege 10 be able to 10.
spect the works Of the modern Europe sn artists ~h'h
are found there. Mr. Scbaus has few exquisite Itsis
| paintings gathered last Summer BY him 10 Paris and
London, among which are two the best examples o.
TIL Freres oriental scenes that have been exhi'seS
here. There is also very charming h.tls hnds'sPs
by Du iul Of brilliant color, aud more carefully no
ishd than his Ian escapes usually very hue eh
| ample Of Chavet a composition OF two ngurus, s''
pieces by Anastasi, LaDfsnt DO Metz. Mere' Wv
tuiier Brllonin, Girsrdct, LsmSa.t, oSrOVu'
Canaud, Ferogio, Seignac, and the Engish @a'>
Slayer, sen, and Rowbotism.
Mount Athos once narrowly escaped oe'ns a.
into static of " my little Alexander the efesr
| il will be- fortunate il Anthony Nose i''er n.r
or the Cstskils, are not, one OF these DAYS cut ~
Ikens secs of Washington or jackson. Ihe PSS'.
colossal statues Is growing upon Va, notwi'hSa"A
| the huge csricsture Of Washington by Greenodss"
tho Capitol Grounds on the Potomac. A ooosssi sA
|, essentially barbarian; but We have SUI soms W
uants of barbsIic tastes to crafty. MIR. r. u rss
the sculptor of Albany whose portrait eas's AIN INV