New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-02
ART ITEMS.


Summer and seeks for recreation and studies" in the
presence Of dear old mother Nature who by the way,
| is never old but always winsome and charming. The
true studio Of tie artist H. in TRUTH under the green-
wood tree" and there our artists love lie during the
Summer months and play at work. amusing themselves
by making studies Of brchen trunks and sparkling
rivuets ripping past NOISY banks. Most Of artists
who have been working indusriously throughout the
Winter in their studoes will b. off their warm
weather ramblers. Some Of these Druids already
on tie wing. Clifford, who was born in sight Of the
Cattskil and who has done Mansfield Mountains,
, Italy, and Switzerland, goes off this Summer
10 tie Mountain region Of North Carolina, where
the Alleehanies assume their lofest and most pic
turesque forms. Boughton goes of TO Europe and 80
does Buchanan Read while Shattuck launches, next
week into the Of matrmony, taking for bis part
ner or pilot in his deectabe voyage of discovery the
sister of Coleman, his almost twin brother i9 art.
That corsar on canvas, Mynheer Van Beest, remains
at his studio in Broadway, with the spirit of a sea
viking working upon bis great naval battles of tho
United States. Three of them-the Capture Of the
Guerrero by the Constitution, the Attack the Pi-
vateer Gen. Armstrong by tie boats of a British
Squadron in the Harbor of Fayal and the Capture Of
the President frigate-are nearly completed
Mr.. Charles A. Barry, the well-known artist IN
crayon, who has oS been six months established in
New-York, has gone to Springfield ILL.,, to make q
portrait of Honest Old Abe" which is to be ltho-
g1aphed and published by NJ. G.. w. Nichols, in mid
June. Those who have the heads executed by
Mr. Barry in New-York, will have entire confidence IN
his portrait Of the Republican Presidential candidate.
BY the last arrival from Europe we have intellI-
gence of the death Of the most eminent OF Belgian
scuptoIs Professor Van Geefs, OF the Royal Academy
of Antwerp Several of his statues have been erected
in Brussels
-Messrs Goupl & Co, have recently receiyedfrom
Paris some late works by Edouard Frere, PLsson and
Gerome which among the best specimens OF those
artists, we have here. The Frere is peculiarly
interesting as showing that this admirable artist is not
deficient as some of his critics have supposed him To
be- of the talent for color Most Of his subjects havo
been of a chara tier in which low tone and sDmbre-
tnts were essential to the sentiment, but in this tts
painting he represents peasant boy after days
geaniDg in the fields, going home in the golden
twilight bearing bis hardearned sheaves the atmos
pbere is full of the glowing warmth of an arctic rural
evening. It is proper pendant another picture OF
his, in which a boy is dragging home at the
close of Wintry day, a bundle of faggots,
which he has picked up in the Forest
Every one must feel the exquisite truthfulness and
tender sentiment of these little gimpses personal life
in France. Our young countryman Thorn, who is
Freres only pupil says in letter that all his pictures
are painted directly from nature that he spends nearly
all his time in the little village of Ecouen, where he is
constantly surrounded by groups Of peasant children,
with whose innocent and serious faces his pictures have
made US SO familiar. Gerome picture is small study
for large The subject is the old story of King
Candaules, taken from Herodotus who, to convince
one of his generals of the beauty of his Queen allowed
him to be secreted where he could see her when shs
dsrobed at night. But, in spite of the mastery
ner in which it has been treated it is hardly fitting
subject for public exhibition. King CANDIDATES. it will
be remembered was severely punished for his treach-
cry, for he was afterward murdered by his general,
who married his Queen
Pictures of certain popular artists bring most pre-
posterous prices Messrs Goupl 81 Co. sold, the
other day, small painting by Passon, and, by way
showing how great its value was tried the experiment
of covering with gold and found that its price in half
eagles more than covered its entire surface Yet Plas
sons pictures do not bring nearly large prices az
those of Meissonier, Gerome, and Others The pic
lures of English artists bring higher prices even than
those of the French school AT auction sale Of pie
in London, few weeks since, four small draw
ings by David Roberts brought $3.50; a small water
color landscape by the artist sold for 81 1865;
Friths " Vicar of Wakefield sold for si,s25; and
three small landscapes by Stanied brought ,000 At
the same sale u small picture by Edouard Frere of .
boy shellirg peas-a copy of which has been exhb-
tied in w-York-brought 5000. These large prices,
however but the high prizes in the lottery of art
Mulitudes of other artists toll necessarily aud ara
scarcely able to keep the wolf from the door.
"A most disrepu'abe and injurious practc is
mon among our auctioneers who make business of
selling pictures, of making very gross mspresentaons
about the works they SELL At the sale of the pctures
belonging to Mr. Penniman, in Union Square, a few
weeks since, they advertised as paintings by
Raphael Guido and Shegogue,' but the pictures were
nothing than very inferior copies by the latter
master" Al the sale of Mr. Burtons pictures last week.
Count Orsays equestrian portrait of Queen Victoria,
was described in the catalogue portrait of Queeu
Victoria by Count ID Orsay, The horse By Landseer
This was either gress ignorance very gross fraud.
But to show how Intellectual such attempts at impose
ton are, the picture brought but $500. There was
very inferior copy of Wilkes Village Festival, which
had tie appearance of having been made from an en-
craving at the SALE which was gravey described
in the catalogue as an ongnal-the original, every
body knows being in the National Gallery in London.
This want of honesty at picture sales has very in-
furious effect when any really mertorious works ara
offered, "a the public are naturally slow TO bellows
what is said about them.
The Bosonians can boast of a greater number OF
lady artists than we can in New-lork At their last
Artists Reception" there pictures exhibited
by Mrs. Sarah Clark, Mrs. Danah, Miss Harriet
Cheney and Miss Ellen Robbins, which We're very
highly praised by the connosseus OF the New England