New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-10

friends Of the Rev. DIR. s. H. Cox would at cncs
recognize az speaking likeness Of that distinguished
clergy man. The sDgnlanty Of the portrait is how
ever tbst was no. painted for that gentleman bnt ID
remarkably strong likeness of Gen. swift (of Gene
val who sat for il. Such remarkable coincidence of
resemblance in two persons who 30 essentially an
ike Ia very strange.
Mr.. Hawthorne has paid Paul Akers and William
w. Story the compliment Of Introducing their ssstues
Of the Dead Pearl Diver" and Cleopatra" in his
new romance Of the Marble Faun, and be confsses
bis strong desire to have paid similar compliment 70
Randolph Rogers's bronze doors for our National
Capitol
AT the annual meeting Of the New.York Arts,s'
Fund Association, last month"; the following gentlemen
were elected officers for the ensuing year; Thomas s.
Cummings, Presidents Charles L. Elliott, Viee-Presi-
dent j. w. Falconer, Treasurer; Vincent Co0yer,
Secretary, and Messrs. Z. A. Baker, w. Hart J. WI
CASTELAR,, J. f. Kenss tt, add K. w. Hubbard, Board
of Control The objects of the Association are char
table.
There IL on exhibition at Goupis gallery Broae
way, landscape by Wall, representing view z
Lake Wndemere, near Ambleide, late the residence
Wordsworth 1t is one of the beet landscapes BY Tho
artist.
The Troy papers mention the name OF new a
tst who has recently made bis appearance IN Iron
named Gollmann. He is German by birth, and e1'
cells in pastel portraits. Mr.. Goldman, we believe, h
found bis way to New.York and taken studio 1
Tenth street.
Among the recent advents Of artists in New York.
are Mr. Whitridge, the weknown Western landscapo
PAINTER, who has taken a studio in the Tenth-stre
Building, MI Rondel from Boston, who nidifes in ID
Dodwcltb nest in Broadway, near Grace Church, an
Mr.. McClurg from Philadelphia, who has lighted upo
the corner Of Broadway and Thirteenth street.
Mr.. C. b. Ives, the sculptor, who has resided 4
long time in Rome, is on a visit here. Among ID
recent works are an Undine and a Shepherd Boy, I
the property of Marshall o. Roberts, esq. He has
aso recently executed bust Of Prof Silliman, sen
for the College Library of Yale.
Philadelphia appears TO be in imminent danger Of
high fsntastical" monument In honor Of Wshngs
ton; the Washington Monument Association Of th&
First School District OF Penney fyanis having AWARDED
premium of $500 to Mr.. George T. Bethel, for ds7
sign to be 225 feet high of Gothic character with
colossal statue of the Father of his Country top of
Does it never occur to the artists who make ceSga
for monuments to Washington that it Is not the moo
dgnifed way of treating his eigy to place it 20 u
above the heads of spectators that they cannot zee
Mr. James j. Jarves is making strenuous efforts g
secure for Boston collection of early pictures Of b
zsntine end Graco Italian origin forming chrome
logical history of painting, which he thinks can -
done for $50 600. We shall be glad IL he can accorr
psh his design; bu; we imagine that it would be easoE
TO raise the neeeeeary funds here than In Boston.
only authentic examples in this country early ltas
art are the pictures forming the Bryan Gallery in III
Cooper Institute.
The crayon sketch of Webster, Irving, and BIZ
ant, by Huntington, as they appeared at the Cooak
Testimonial, which was exhibited at the last ArtsF
Reception, is to be engraved and published by Pu'nA
None of our authors have had the good fortune II
be better presented to the public in their Published
traits than Fenimore Cooper. His head was justS
that character which is most easily copied, w
Mr.. Bryant's, though striking in appsH
ance, has never been satisfactorily put ~
canvas, though he has set to Page Elliott and His}
three of the best living portrait painters. Mr.. Eli
has just completed new portrait of Cooper which
as srikipgly like the origin al though he had
it. But Elliott had met him frequently, remembek1
him well, and by the aid of a capital dsguereotyI
he has succeeded in painting most e-like portrait a
our great novelist. 1t is to be engraved steel e.
Townsends edition of Cooper's works, by Mr.. w. y.
Marshall, of the volumes of which is to eontaine
view of the Monument TO Cooper recently erected h
the cemetery at Cooperstown.
1t is Mrs. w. H. Appetons portrait bust, and -
that of Mr. w. H. Appleton, which has just be(m
modelled by Mr.. Jackson as intended TO state -
week. k
Sir Charles Barry, the architect Of the new Hone
of Parliament, London, has made design for an ex ~
btion room for the Royal Academy, the estimated CT
of which is s25O,OO0.
"A Memorial Window is to be placed in -
Annes Church, in Dublin, in honor Of Mrs. Henasz
the poetess, who was buried in that church. Memo1n
Windows have become the prevailing fashion in h.
gland. 1t Isl this manner thst Macsulay and So
pbenson are to be commemorated in Westminster All
bey This fashion will, of course ike all Others Of
European origin find it's way in time TO this side Of TIE
Atlantic; but as yet we cannot boast OF MemohN
Window. M
One of the last discoveries in the application Of ~
Daguerrean art is that of the transfer Of Photograph
portraits to porcelain surfaces The inventor of this ns
method is German residing in this city, where he -
been very successful in the practice of the art. "a
Mr. Ellis, the we'll known medaonist Of this ais
has recently finished modelling design furnished ~
Mr.. Leufze, at the order of the State Department, ~
medal to be used in recognition, by Govsrnmen
of services rendered in saving the lives of shipwrec
mariners. The diverse of the medal represents ~
sailor bearing in bis arms the body of another sailor
beacon on overhangipg cliff, the shattered topn1
of a wrecked ship and the waves dashing against ~
rock which the group is placed, sufficiently ndic
the purposes for which the medal lie to be used. ~
scroll overhead is intended to bear the explanstd
legend. The design is an extremely beautiful GO
tba Of fachn;col ON