The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-19

Aessrs Leeds Co., auctoneers, held their third an
nua sale Of paintings during last week a the Academy
Design In Tenth street. The pictures were on exhibition
for several days prior to and during sae which was
held on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday nights.
In collection Of paintings sent to auction there
be, Of eourse, number comparatively Of little or no
value, and the present instance forms exception but
there were q great many very beautiful and valuable
works which we're well worth . visit There was
total abserce Of those antquated daubs which
the would be knowing ones regard 80 reverently
Every painting, the contrary, was the work
Of of modern masterssurpasing far In fresh
mesa and warmth Of tone many works OF far cele
bTated artists In landscape painting especially the pre-
ever known, and we have seen portraits from the
hands Of artists now living that painter Of five
hundred years ago (snce antiquity eyerythins) could
surpRss. Nor does this northumberland we
thuk-upon the artists OF day detract In the
slightest from the merits Of the ans, the Van Dycks
and the grandeur Of heir triumph would be but bur,
tsqued by word OF compliment praise from hum
BILE se at this day. But it is part Of creed that
in painting, as in poetry and music, well in the
and sciences the present marks It's progress and supe
riory over any past age. So much In the habit
cessors that we doubt even our best artists and connos
will agree with the opinion We vance We may
be told that our artists owe their excellence and
the study OF the works Of the great masters Possibly
Artists must study, either from nature, did the old
masters or from copies But D estimation, makes
tneton's "Page Of the White Plume-whch was sod the
other night for S246-was the result OF q study from
nature or the works OF other men, The painting itself
the real test OF merit and success, not the means
which the artist may have used arrive
To suppose that, in painting, the moderps equal
If not surpsss, the ancients, allacy and we may
Judge from success which attended Mr. Leeds Gales
and the satisfactory prices which brought would
iner that We are not alone in our opinions We glad
and that the good sense and taste OF the public
able them to judge OF the merits OF work OF with
ont regard 10 the fame Of the artist And
TO native rtts, who need have afraid
OF sending their works 70 such exhibitions. In
Of ou ae% oxn Artists Us s1 a, rocrs pc'ares
the case Of Durres "winer Scenes" and others, the
bidding was more spirited One Of Durres brought $685.
bought by Mr.. Warren a $500 "fhe Roadside Inn BY
Shsyer Jr, brought $780, f. Church's beautiful paint
down to Mr. warren at s4oo. aKautrskil Grove BY
Kensett, WAS sold 10 Mr. Tndsll as 500.
The works OF foreign artists also literally pa
uonized-"The Twins y by dc Metz, struck US as par
tculary beautiful. It was cold to Mr. Henry at si0o
One Of Ammermanns, the "Boudoir Of Marie Antonete"
cattle piece was bought By Mr. Nolo .. ss7o Mr. Hblo
also bought the foowing-"The Boudoir - by Caroue OF
Brussels $3.50; 1.-THE Billet Doux, by pens, slas; she
Skeu OF Thread by Deilman, $c0; Ian APE By Bod
dngeD, Of london, 1886 and Mountain Pastoral" By
Geo Cole, of London Every ne) $3.50 Two Of Percy
were bought by Ar. Remsen, q. $500, the other al
S403 In addition to these might mention amopg The
Dcst valuable, "Ihe Treasured Miniature by Stach
$50; View On The HUDSON" By Roneell, sise "Gipsy
singer, $3.50; "rhe Troubadour," 6y Van Hamme, Se5
'Boy ana Cockatoo," by Mann and lance, OF London
$40; "a Medical Consultation by Goldberg, $780, VII
lage fee,r by Brackaeer, $3.50; Landscape by Mgnot
$50. Theee last two bought by Mr.. Warren. We
forget to mention, for the cake OF the moral II
conveys, curious little picture OF the days Of Hogarth
.'The x Fas, Men OF LONDON" every one Of whom
hanged
The remainder Of the collection, which numbered over
four hundred in ALL cold at prices ranging between i've
dollars and one hundred. The proceeds OF the
sales amounted 10 twenty thousand dollars
The attendance each night very good but is 10 be
regretted that the pictures not exhibited In
more suitable than the small and uncomfortable in
the Academy. The comparatively small number who
could get into the salesrcom and the want Of proper
commodation, must have operated injuriousy on the
eales and since these annual exhibitions Of Mr. Leeds
are becoming quite instution, hope, for his
be better provided In this respect by the time Of his next
annual nle.