New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-09-26
Art Items.

i a popular photograph in England just now, il
one from spirited picture by Captain Anderson
| representing the Great Eastern paying out the
Telegraph cable.
The finishing touch is being given to Powells
life-size equestrian portrait of General George B.
Mcclellan.
/ Lady sculptors are in great demand now.
Queen Victoria has lately given commission to
| Miss Darant for a monument to the late King of
the Belgians, which is be erected in St. Georges
Chapel.
Regis GignouX has now upon his easel new
picture of Alpine seenery-the snow-clad jung
frau In the distance, blue and tranquil lake
stretching away to the foot Of the mountains, and
o foreground ofrugged rocks and pines.
The inferiority of many of the late illustrations
in Punch has for some time past been subject of
remark They are characterized by some of the
London critics as feeble and slovenIy attempts to
carry out aneB,fanged idea aboutwood cuts
statue Of the late Prince Albert has lately
been inaugurated at Sydney, New South Wales.
The statue, whichewas modelled by Mr.. Theed,
is Of bronze, and ten feet high It stands at the
entrance ID Hyde Park, one Of the finest sites in
tile city. y 81 8. .z5 s45
u The clay model forthe marble statue of Rich
to be placed at the entrance to Cam.
den Town, has been completed by Messrs Wills
Brothers, sculptors. 1t is spoken of as being an
excellent likeness, and the figure is marked with
dignity and natural ease of attitude
Baron Marochetti's monument at Strathfeldsaye,
in memory of the late Duke of Wellington, is now
completed. 1t consists Of lofty column resting
on plinth and surmounted by statue Of the
great warrior and statesman; the whole measur-.
ing upwards Of eighty feet in height.
We have heard it stated that w. Bradford,
whose departure upon an artistiosEoyage to the
coast of Labrador was announced some time
since, is still within the bounds Of civilization,
something having occurred to prevent the expedi,
ton with which he was bound from setting out.
A monument, by Foley, has lately been erected
in Kensall Green Cemetery to the memory of the
late famous painter James Ward, R. A. It is a
tablet, with5a niche containing an alto-relieyo
figure, representing the muse of painting and is
safdto be very classical and ehaste in design
Mr. W. H. Carpenter, whose name was long
familiar in English art circles, died lately at the
age of IS years. He had written much, and
ably, upon art; and had been for more than
twenty years in charge of the collection of prints
and drawings in the British Museum, post in
which he is succeeded by Mr.. Reid.
The fancy which some animal painters have for
humanizing their subjects does not find favor with
some of the English critics. One writer pitches
into Landseer for thus degrading his art, and says
that the taxidermists who stuff monkeys and frogs
and group them into family parties, are far be-
fore the painters in this branch of art.
Mr.. George Richmond, whose election to the
Royal Academy, in place of the new president, Sir
Francis Grant, was lately announced, is chiefly
famous as a portrait painter. For good many
years he praeteed mostly in crayons and water
colors, his portraits in both Of which materials
were in great request; but Of late years he has
painted exclusively in OIL
The French painter Courbet, about which so
much has been written lately pro and con-, is said
to have recourse to many lodges " for the main
tenanee of certain reputation in art acquired By
him. When he has few pictures of which he
cannot dispose, he issues thousands of farng post.
ers announcing to the startled bourgeois that the
great Courbet is in the field. Whentsome of the
regular eSpositions of pictures are open, he some.
times hires apiace close by one of them, where ho
arranges some of his worst pictures as sort of
I" side show hangs out a sign, aud announces
that visitors will be admittodat half the price
charged for the big show. Humbug fourishes in
France as here, and Courbet pockets his adnlis,
sion money sells his pictures, and laughs at the
simpletons who buy them.
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