New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-16
ART ITEMS.

Mrs. Sarah Page nee Dougherty, has been giving
q dramatic reading in NewYork, and some indhcrect
friend of hers has attempted to attract attention to-
ward her by advertising her as the wife Of Page the
artist. 1t would be doing a great injustice to permit
such q statement to pass uncontradicted. The Mrs.
Page who has been reading in public is the divorced
wife of the artist and the absurd story Of her being
the model of his Venuses, of which he has painted
three of hem and said to be the best, being now
in London, needs no contradiction.
Mr.. Lsutze 10 still in Washington, where he has
studio, in streetnear the Treasury Building. He has
made great number of sketches Of the military scenes
about the Capital, which will be worked up by and
by into elaborate pictures Since he has been in Wash
ngton he has painted study for one of the vacant
panels on the southwest grand stairway in the Capt.
to. 1t is illustrative of the Legend Westward the
star of empire takes its course" The subject is treated
10 purely imaginative STYLE embodying q view Of
the Rocky Mountains looking toward the golden sunset
sky, with party of emgants in the foreground. The
picture Is surrounded by an mathematical border,
which serves as prelude to it, 1t is to be painted on
the wall in encausc, and, like all mural paintings
now-adays, will, Of course, be called fresco. Mr.
Seward was 30 much pleased with the design that lie
has ordered copy of it, which Mr. Leutze is now en-
gagged upon.
Mr.. McEntee our practical landscapist who
marched to the war with the Goth ULSTER Regiment Of
New.York State Militia, has been promoted from q
Lieutenancy, and is now Captain McEntee. Clifford,
who returned with the Seventh from Washington, was
promoted while he was absent, from the ranks TO a
Corporalshp lie il at his studio in Tenth.street,
diligently at work at his easel.
DR.. Stone, the sculptor. is in Washington, and
finding the fine arts neglected is an applicant for the
post of surgeon in the army.
Mr.. George L. Brown has contributed to the Patri-
otto Fund one of his finest landscapes view OF New.
port The painting IL valued at $500; the frame cost
So and was generously contributed by the artist IL
il on exhibition and for sale at the Gallery corner OF
Broadway and Ninth street. Mr.. Brown is going to
Washington to make drawings for view OF Washing
ton. His ebay of New-York" bas been very highly
praised in London, and his Niagara by Moonlight" is
to be sent there for exhibition.
The studio artists have not yet all left on their Sum-
mer tours Mr. Dix lie with his father writing military
dispatches Beard has gone TO Buffalo, and Suy dam is
of to the country; but Gignoux, William Hart, Page
Bierstadt, Hubbard Church, Hays, and Bradford are
still at work in their sudioe. The studio building will
miss one Of its peasantest, most genial, and accom-
plished occupants. The gallant and lamented Theo'
dore Winthrop who fell glorously at the attack on
Great Bethel longone of the tenants Of this haunt
Of genius. Among the literary performances OF Major
Winthrop was criticism published in a pamphlet
form OF Churchs Heart of the Andes.