New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-22
ART ITEMS.

-ecstlv b.en opeued In Manchester, Eng, and among
,ben are 246 works BY French, English and German
a,,i.,s. there were two by Decamps the celsbrated
French artist which painted just previous 70 his
death, but there are no American names mentioned
among the artists who contribute the works for the ex
hibitior.
The "heroic" school Of painting, to which Haydn
sacrificed bis fe and many other artists have sacrificed
their regulations appears to be nearly extinct, among
continental artists at least. Small pictures now mo-
pcpolze The pa roDage CT connoisseurs. painting by
Meissonier measuring only eight inches by ak which
contained ncthing more than the head of m IN looking
out of a window recently sold in Paris for ~ 600
francs A Ii tie picture by Chavet, whose Interior Of
a Cafe in The collection of Mr. Belmont, ia familiar to
New-York sightseers representing " student cutting
his pencil" Of timilar size, sold for similar sum.
When works Ike these sell for such enormous prices,
true friends Of art will not be apt to predict that the
golden ace is coe at hand whatever the Chavets and
Meis offers may think Of the matter. When poor
Haydop eaw the enlightened British public rush.
ing past his exhibition room in the Egyptian Hall
TO hosor Tom Thumb by their presence, hs
felt that his time had come, and hurried home and
severed his wndppe with his If be had lived to
60 the public running after the dwarhsh pictures OF
the French school, while his own heroic figures were
| abandoned be would doubtless have been maddsned
by the spe ctace he by the popularity OF our
native American homunculus. The more sensioe pan
would have been to adapt himself TO the exgeDcies OF
nrbc taste and instead of painting heroic figures Of
Denatus to paint pigmy looking out of windows. 1t
il hard that an artist cannot How the bent of bic own
oepius but when he discovers that he cannot bend the
public taste the next best thing for him 10 do is 10
bend himself to it.
British tourists in America make loud complaints
of the expeCtorstng habits of our countrymen, aud
often with great Justice, it must be confessed but it
admits of a serious doubt whether we are half 80
guilty in this respect British cousins. In re-
port recently made to the British Museum Committee
by Mr. II. Cole be urges the necessity Of ncosng the
pictures snd prints in the Kenspgon Museum in glass,
for the following remarkable reasons "The public
he rays, "speeze upon the pictures, and the saliva
runs down the pictures and positively eas away the
surface Of them. One of the most valuable OF Mr..
Mulready's pictures was covered with the coughngs
and sneezngs of the public 1okog close at the picture
and laughing in the presence Of it," This certainly
surpasses anything that was ever invented even, of
the expectoratng habits of the people of the United
States Mr. Cole also states that some of the sculp
lures in the Museum had become "quite erubby"
wha that may bel from the indecent habits Of the
yittoIs in handling and rubbing them. Even the por-
traits in our City Hall are as jet entirely free from
tobacco juice, "coughings and sneezings;" aud
although the bronze statue Of Jefferson 10 the Cover
nors Room is somewhat corroded it ia not in the least
"grubby" from beir improperly handled.
We learn from The Cincinnati Gazette that the
Marquis Of Cba1dos has given commissions to the
brothers John and Godfrey Fankensein TO paint for
him views at Niagara Falls" and we learn also from
The Gazette that Godfrey has long been associated
with Niagara" We have right TO question the cor
rectnets of the statement made by The Cincinnati
Gazette and we have no Intention of doiOg So but,
considering who and what the Marquis of Cnandos is,
we must take the liberty of remarking that his giving
commissions American painters for pictures is very
rsmarkable 1t is not long since that all the art treas
ures Of the palace of Stowe the noble seat Of his
father, the Duke Of Buckingham, to which he was
heir we're sold to pay the debts of his improvdent pro-
genitor. The noble family were literally sold out Of
house and home The greatest collection Of knick-
nackelies in Europe, some Of which found their
way to this country was then dispersed, and the
MARQUIS Of Cbandos the heir to dukedom, has
been indusiously trying 10 make both ends msat by
acting as Chairman of railroad companies and other
commercial enterprises aud IL is understood that his
visit to this country purely OF business nature,
for he is tad 10 have decided turn for affairs, and
long bis ether Offices he fills that Of Keeper Of the
Great Seal to the Prince Of Wales the duties Of which
are probably not particularly onerOus.
Among the celebrated works Of AIT which were cold
a. the eat sae Of Stowe, was the famous silver bell
made by Benvenuto Cellini for Pope Clement VII,
and which Raphael has in Iojuced in portrait Of that
p ntih Il was purchased by the Duke of Backing
ham at the sale of the effects OF Horacs Walpole at
Straw berry Hill and it is in the collection Of
farmer at Fstlande, Long Island. Art, like Empire,
takes ts way west ward, and this curious plece of
sculpture, which has passed from Roman Pontiii
through The banda of European princes and mobiles into
the possession Of Long Island farmer, century or
two hence may grace the cabinet Of native
Sandwich Islander.
Fine Art journals, which flourish like green bay
trees in England France, and Germany, have never
been able to take deep root in our light coil There
have been repeated attempts toestablsh publications of
the kind but eitl or from lack OF ability or lack of
place for such periodical intsllopers in journalistic
literature, none of them have enj yed healthy exist
ence. Tie C,oyOn has now been published long
enough TO teet the necessity for weekly paper of the
kind, but il does not seem to DO in iourishing con-
di,ion. 1t occasionally contains however, some adj
iraLly written articles the subject Of architecture,
which have sufficient merit Of their own 10 give char
a er to the paper in which they appear. AS there ia
DO subject connected with the arts 10 which the public
Of tie United States needs enlightenment more than
in that of architectural emberhment we have noticed
tie occasional appearance of the crtidtms IN 1He
Cy0yoa with great satisfaction. The publisher OF
Tie Cyayon has manifested 20 much teraeity OF pur-
pose in sustaining Lis enterprise, that we should cay
there must be some encouragement fr him TO perse-