The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-10
Art Notes.

"A Florence correspondent thus writes of
Powers the American sculptor, and his latest
works.
"Ail Florence has aocked to see his beautiful
\ 'Ginevra,' just finished, and exhibiting a new
and exquisite triumph of his delicate and express
j sive chise How beautiful is the drapery OF
Powers busts, and how indebted are we to him
foT relieving us from the monoOnOus folds OF
What eternal shawl, and substituting for it the
chaste ard elegant medieval costume, which
4 falls so gracefully on the shoulders and bosoms
of his female portrait busts
4 "NOthng can be at once more becoming and
4. elegant than the appearance OF these matchless
drawiDe-room marbles, with their draperles,
displaying SO eXquisl'ely the well.moulded pro-
portions of the figure beneath, and edged thenl-
Eselves with their delicate borderings, displaying
n the cunningest work of the artists hand.
Powers is filed with these elegant productions,
of which the supply can never, alas equal the
demand. There is one of MS vile, too, OF mimi
!. table grace and feeling and of an expression OF
. mingled pathos and deep inCellieence which one
never tires OF gazing upon. Then, besdes Gnere
3 is his Genius of America and other greater
. works; the description of which would lead one
on to still warmer eulogles."
The Richmond Dispatch has the following
+ reference to art matters in that city. 1t says:-
1--WE had the pleasure of seeing at the studio
Z of Mr.. Valentine, bust of General Stonewall
jackson, now nearly completed in plaster. 1t
3 and the whole face bears the impress OF great
4 strength in repose. 1t is more like Jackson than
the photograph OF him so familiar to every one.
1t is liie.size bust.
n "Nlr. Valentine has q bust of ]. e. B. Stuart,
partly done, in clay. 1t promises to be fine
work. He intends to visit Lexington shorti y,
u for the purpose of making bust OF General r..
" Z. Lee"
"A WASHINGTON paper states that few days
" ago a remarkable "work of art in snow," in the
public streets Corner of Eleventh and F), at
vi tracted the gaze of hundreds. A bust of snow,
u representing Judge Otto, Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior had been formed by young gen.
tleman named Elhcott which was so remarkably
executed as to arrest the attention of all passers,
and to evoke special encomiums from those
II among the bystanders most capaole OF pronounc'
ing on its merits. 1t was fine likeness, and q
decided evidence OF talent and skill in its fabri'
Gator Young Ellicott has made several casts
in clay, of an excellent character, and is now,
we understand, doing a second cast of the late
President Lincoln.
The disposition OF the equestrian statue Of
XGeneral Stonewall Jackson, executed by Mr.
tFredeIick Volck, has not yet been determined
This valuable artistic effort is said to be worth
not less than $25, 600. It's execution reflects great
credit upon this talented sculptor, who has de.
veloped in it many points of striking originality
and beauty.
II Macdonald, the sculptor, is engaged on bust
of Charles 0'Connor, for which he is to receive
NHtwo thousand dollars 1t is being made to the
order of a number of the members of the bench
and bar of New York.
III "A medallion in marble of Durand, the land
scape artist, is almost finished by L. j. Kuntze
the well-known sculptor