New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16

TERs-THE PICTURE DEALERs-PREsER-
WALTON OF PICTURES. |
der & Co., of London, have just pub
Century of Painters of the English |
th Critical Notices of their Works, and |
d lGDf the Progress of Art in England;
VI Redgrave, r. A. Surveyor Of Her |
Pictures, ETC., Inspector General for |
amuel Redgrave." In this work there |
valuable information concerning Eng |
and their characteristics. The open |
/, on early pictures, treats Of the scrub
eaners and restorers in England
THE PICTURE DEALERS. .....
pictures of any kind painted prior to
# Henry VII are now in existence in
The few which can be identified are
traits, and have been preserved in the
tSss, the mansions Of the nobility, and
W,eges aud corporate halls; and these
,nnhappily, been so restored and reno
very little of the original work can now
tished. There would, indeed, seem to
"a time when it was deemed part OF
economy to clean the pictures with the
iture, and they had periodically their
tolishing with the wainsCot, when peri
aoyaters went from hall to hall, and from
ouse, withdrawing and polishing. Such
erubbed off and laid on paint without the
esponsibility. They made the pictures
new Yarnish, and patched and regilded
i. By these authorities portraits were
dsSew, both as to the painter and the sub
Awork-much, perhaps, to the satistac-
/ owner, who was gratitied by o more
kitle to his picture; but greatly to tine
lof the art critic and the antiquary, now
hnatters are made the subject of exact
hese scrubbers and cleaners, naturally
repairers and restorers. The portrait OF
4, in Westminster Abbey, which, in its
ate, would have been of very curious IN
said by Dallaway to have been most
restored, or, in fact, painted oyer
nut a century agO."-( Notes to Walpole.)
isehief did not end here, for an attempt
sinee made by another cleaning to restore
81 state, of which, if anything remain, IL
miracle. Among the Well-knoWn memo
In, Symonds, is this relating to the fine
epurehased of the Duke of Mantua, by
:" When the Kings pictures came from
quicksilver was got in amongst them, and
IN all black. Mr.. Hieronymus Laniere
of Nicho1as) told me that, to cleanse
BIT he tried fasting sPttle, then he mixed
hrm milk, and those would not do; and
D. cleaned them with aCqua vitae alone
~ok of all the spots, and he says twill
Ehe yarnish,n Sanderson, in his q Ora
5eHs of this old master Of the cleaning
! the first who passed off copies for orr
tempertng his colors with SCOT, and theI
them up he made them crackle and con
Hair of antiquity.n Laniere's invention
ylved to the present day.
lures aged and lost the freshness of thel
complexions, this very defect came to b
Id beauty the brown hue of successiy
varnish was admired as an excellence
Z piCture,' said Sir Geo. Beaumont, " llk
gidle, " should he brown" If pictur
In abroad in q fine fresh state of prese
dealers were too wise to let it be see
4 .ure tints were subdued to the establishe
G0nnoisseurs believed that pictures, lik
ained patina from age which mellowee
Ia and made them more valuable than
d 81 ey left the painters easel.
beg passage touches upon American pee
ANCESTORS.
meTiean agent recently in London eXplaint
meas - be to " collect ancestors and tn
been very successful. He said he hi
nm many good portraits, and that with pr
,ptionto costume and age, and some lit
additions, he had matched suitable hr
IA wives for two or three generations, al
f,ted some very well assorted familit
Wing progided with full credentials, we
4 - adopted, and that he was Continui
remuRarative researches. This 10
genuine restoration are thus notice
H. 7ToRATIoN.
sa lie, reputed as an etcherI and an
,p Pr "a for $40 Cuyp's fine " View
* hSo pgltt Il to this country. 1t is knoI
III. ~ tbo clever captains hands as two Sc
IeaS NV =, Qied Morning and !" Evening
osa a as,e ~. Yards purchased for &2200, a
e saI ai ronn, tedLso this great work may
y NY w '0 ron, IRe specimen of restoratie
,e ou9 t. however, pertinent, havi
InJor he ., res of all in the Information
hU Gromeis, fctare of household Hea
Ill hands of a jew, who, by the sal
I M emitting in hall eepgerted 1t into .
iafandscapes, which ia me same mann
lImnately been brou 'ght bogelRer AGAIN;
AM it is said, son. We Loss OF part OF
I'M invited to England haIaeile aha liz ~
mot come. But Holbeh L Iehluteu 10 IA
an Thomas More, won gfe4s nanls'
More. or Moro, went t.' GlGla1o t y
and left with him afteT rue ,o uedI III
ooeen Elizabeth's court PALMER vas Luz
e, Fleming; and the hrst n't Is l, ,7s u,
sanle as painter has come down 70 ~ r. v
.g r,s nainter of the days of Elilaoetn
So / Nicholas billiard, of whofp DOE
IAN hand or eye ,.-,
n Hilliard drawn, is worthy hlstsry
BIZ a worse painter made
temporary who surpassed billiard as
painter, though nine years his jun
oliver. Three foreign portrait pant "a,
ld in the reign of James |. Paul van