New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-03

Tnom in New-York could not have been written.
We trust the praise was merited.
After the war there will be good many heroes
whose portraits will be required for the public halls
Of our large cities, and artists will have some
compensaiDg orders to soace them for their enforced
ideness during the rebellion Az for our City Hail.
there is no room in it for any more folength heroes,
but the new hall will be completed in good time to
receive all the heroes whose eiges We may desire to
preserve on canvas. An appropriation oil $i,ooo
for a portrait of Gov. Clark having been made by
the Common Council, for the Governors Room Mr..
Carpenter has been selected 10 paint the picture and
is now engaged upon it.
We find in tie Boston papers favorable mention
of a Young artist named Southsrd whose studio Is IN
Salem. and who paints seaside scenes, as well as
genre and historical subjects He has lately returned
from Rome. where he was fellow student with
Ames. Another artist whose pictures are spoken OF
in the Boston papers as ELEGANT productions OF
genius, is Mr. Paul Weber. According TO one oil our
Boston contemporaries, Mr.. Weber has reached tho
very summit of pictorial art" 1t is very high
place for an artist to reach and congratulate Dir.
Weber upon his lofty petition.
A. the exhibition gallery Of NJ knoedier,
Goup & Co., on Broadway, there is choice colec-
ton of very admirable works by some of our young
American artists; some Spanish views by Geo. H.
Hall and by Coleman, and five studies OF forest
seenery bv w. r. Richards Of Philadelphia, Of such
exquisite decacy of flush and sueh fidelity TO H.
tnre that pre- .Raphaelite might blush TO examine
them. They have everything in them 10 cheat the
ma.inaion but the fresh fragrance of the greenwood
scenes they represent.
A very fine piece Of sculpture by young Bald j.
mcrean. named Renhart, has been sen, here for e1-
bibiiion, and " i'll soon lie paced in Mr. huoedler-
rooms IL is cAlled the Sleeping Children anu
Wac executed in Rome, where the artist rpcnI 'ouf
wears, for monument This group attracted mueu
attention in Rome and Mr.. ReDhari received several
orders from English travellers for copies OF IL. We
believe That none Of bis works have been eAhioi'ed
here. but he ia well-known 10 ~; Iublic by IA
voIable reports
The National Academy Of Design will hold their
next. the 39ih, annual exhibition in tie handsore
galleries of the Art Institution, built by Mr.. H. '"
Derby. on Broadway. The National Academy has
abandoned, for the preseni, the plan of erecting
building on ,hs lots purchased the Free Academy
for That purpose. The exhibition will be opened
early in April, and so we'll plensed are the artists
with the arrangements made for the OCCASION 'ha'
they will take pride in sending their best pictures
Mr. T. lie Clear, formerly Of Bu'alo, whose
heads have often attracted attention in the annual eA'
Editions of the National Academy Of Design, haS
joined the fraternity Of NewYork artisis and taken
studio in the Dodwor;h Academy in Montague
place Brooklyn. Among the pictures 10 Ills pos
session il "a striking portrait Of Excitement FIJI
more rel resened in the uniform Of the Continental
GusIds, Of whom lie il officer.
The d" Bombardncni of Hilton Head" BY Geo.
l.. Brown, which has been Autographed and pub
lished by e.. W. Nichols, s sill on exhibition at
Couple. TIE picture has many points OF specihl
excellence, and is sad 10y tbose who witnessed the
engagement, to give q good representation Of the
actual seenc but il is marvel OF art, considering tie
very brief time in which it Wa, executed. TIE list
had the canvas hardly fortnight ON bis easeL
Mr.. Hicks has recently comp eted afu-ength,
lfe-sized portrait Of Doctor Coggswel E1-Libr"nAh
Of the As;.r Library. He If represented sitting at
table surrounded by books, and tie fidelity Of tho
portrait 10 the original ia extraordinary. Asspciure
il will be classed among the happies efforts Of tie
artist.
Mr. Church is now engaged on a large Landscape
for Mr.. Leunox Of Fifth avenue, which Oilers very
striking contrast to his last WORK the Icebergs IL is
view of volcanic mountain near Qu'o, in South
America The subjec, is full OF grandeur, aud the
picture promises in lis present esae even, to be one
Of bis greatest achievements.
Every one who has seen the Gypses and the
Christening" BY Knaus, will DO delighted to learn
that new picture from this incompatible nrt,ft
called "Thc Golden Wedding" has recently been
received here and will be Oh view at Goup'l
Gallery. A picture hearing the fane name has been
advertised which is not tie great work Of knaus.
Mr.. W. s. Mount, who hes not exhibited ia new
picture in q long time, is now al Port Jelerson, l.. L.,
here lie has been constructing travelling sudio,
mounted on wheels, and capable Of being enslly
transported by a single hore. His fret picture
painted in it is porirai, Of Mr T.. 4. Darling, tie
well-known yacht builder.
Mr.. A. +. Bellows, one Of tho Tenth street AZ
tis.s and n ,reat fayonle in New-lork, has bad be
studio, this Winter, in Montreal. We hear Iha, lie
has been doing very well, and ten Of bis pictures
have been cod to go to England, 70 be paced among
famous collections there.
MIR. j. A. Oertel, whose cattle pieces are familiar
to NewYork picture secrs, has removed TO Westerly,
Il. l., where he bar been engaged for months
past on a large canvas, the subject Of which is
L" Father limo and his Family"
The sales Of paintings at the exhibition Of the
Young Mems Art Association of Buffalo. last month,
amounted TO 900.
Mr.. &. 81. Burns. young and promising artist OF
Phladcrha has left Coz the cont Of War hs Captan