New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-11
ART ITEMS.
announCemeI

English artists who are ambitious of becoming
ROYAL Academcians are ged to enter their names as
candidates. for associate Academcaps before they can
be admitted to the full honors Of r. A. There are
now among the ap cants for the present year forty
two painers twelve scuptors thirtsen architects and
sx engravers; and ameng these applicants are names
of artists that have been for many years familiar to US
On this eide of the Aautic-such as X. Ansde, Marc
Anthony +. Leighton, l. SAINT, SoomOns, Owen
Jonee, I. H. Wyatt, T. Laudseer, &c That artists
Ike these should be applicants for admission to the
ROYAL Academy as associates shows what numerous
body the artists Of England have become.
1t has been decided by the committee appointed
for the purpose of making arrangements for erecting
monument in honor of the historian Hslam, TO erect
statue. Certain prominent English scaptOrs have been
invited TO enter into competition for design, but two
of those who were asked, Messrs. Woolner and
Foley have refused.
"A fine art exhibition a very comprehensive and
liberal scale is to be opened at Brussels on the 18th
Of August, the present month. Foreign artists have
been invited to send their works TO it
The Life Of Sir Martin Archer Shee the late Pres
dent of the Royal Academy, by his son, has just
out in London, and like all the lives of ilustri1us
fathers written ty their sons and daughters which
have recently appeared it s very badly done. Though
Byron wrote IN MS brlush Darde ana ScOtch he-
yiewers'
And here let shee and genius find place,
Whose pen and pencil yield an equal grace
vet the efforts Of both bis pen aud pencil now
alike nearly forgotten, though he has been but ten
years dead Whatever else he might have been, Shee
was net a genius. The Saturday ReUew says of the
Iife:" We have not recently seen more stilted,
bombastic, or inflated style than that in which NJ.
Slice has written bis fathers life. plentiful use of
Italce, extreme verbosy purs, painfully elaborated,
the perpetual recurrence of French words, aad con.
slant recourse to the worst articles Of the pennya
liner are Its most conspicuous features. Still graver
faults sre degree Of bad taste that is nearly, and
habit OF fulsome and ndiscTiminae adulaon Of great
people which makes it's pages almost unreadable' 1t
would lie we'll for fathers who have any 70 be-
Ieye that their lives are in danger of being written
after their DEATH TO forbid their sons and daughters
from undertaking the work. The children Of Hayden
and Leslie had the go9d sense to select competent
stranger for the duty Of compiling the biographies Of
tbfir fathers and it would have been botter for the
memory of Shee if his family had done the same.
We have OF in this country, we believe, any col
lection Of original drawings that lie sufficiently large TO
he called respectable. If there should be, we hope
| ,ba, some industrious explorer OF the WyDne bago
tribe viii unearth them and give the public an account
! M them. We know of few good original drawings
scattered in various portfolios bat not enough in one
Mace 10 be called collection In England, there are
/ good many collections of very great value. The
drawings left BY the la.e Sir Thouss Lawrence cost
their collector 500 900 and were sold after bis DEATH
for very large sums TIE British Museum has recently
purchased I34 of these drawings, most OF them pen
and ink, for which they paid Sl2 600 Among them
were drawings and sketches by Masac;io Lorenzo di
| C,sdi. Fra Bsrtolommeo, Perugno, Mics ael Angelo,
Rapbael. Parmigians Correggo, Haus Hoben, Ru-
| bens. Rembrandt and Andrea MantegDa. They were
nprcbased 10 RI nder sill richer the very valuable coec-
ton of drawings which the Museum already possessed
What ire asuIes of art might not NewYork possess II
only 1.-THE Of the money wasted by our City Fathers
in japanese entertainments expended 10 objects
Of value for the improvement of the people
in mentioning the portraits Of the Governors in
| the City Hall last week. we might have enumerated
4 the portraits of other Governors, which are the
rrotey of the city, and which decorate the rooms OF
some Of our public buildings. At Bellevue Hospital
ase several portraits of the Ten Governors of the
! Alms-House which not the least valuable OF the
arttreasures of the city among them portraits of
\ the late Isaac Townsend and of Mr. f. c. West the
present Surrogate by Elliott aud very fine head of
Mr. d apr, by Huntington.
What was said by Mrs. Dawson Damer of the
] trench people, may NC eaiu WIN equ"i 'iU "
pictures, viz they are either to be loved or hated
There is no middle course for them Those who wish
to See what is really ovable in French art should look
at the pictures Of coemporaIy artists-a' the Troyons
| FIeres, Bonheurs Jeromes, Trsyers, and Meries.
IT is hard TO believe that such sweetness, tenderness
trutbfulness and conscientious love for the beautiful
could be the natural growth Of the school Of art which
tourthed under the first Empire, and under the Bour-
/ b0ns. One OF the most delicious pictures that we
have from the easel ofTroyon has lately been ex
hibitng in the small gallery of Gorpil IL Co., il
Bros6wsy, ard Eay be there still. 1t is small can
vas, representing some sheep ard landscape imbued
with morning light