The New York herald., 1866-04-29
FIN E A r T s.
Picture Sale at the Old Dusseldorf Gall


lery.
The remainder collection pictures the property
OF Mr. Smith OF Philadelphia and said to be the
Of the old masters offered at auction the old
Dusseldorf gallery on Friday evening, by Mr.. H. II
Leeds auconeer The first instalment OF the collec.
ton was sold the previous evening notice Of the
sale appeared in the HERALD on Friday. novelty in
picture sales not on tho catalogue, was introduced on
the latter OCCASION The auconeer prefaccd the sao by
speech delivered In excited and qucrulous manner,
In which he stated that leading journal OF this city
had published that morning macous," 'scurrilousn
and lying article concerning the picture sale Of tho
night BEFORE tho purport OF which article,
we understood tho auctionecr 10 mean, nsnua,ed
that pictures roputed TO DO by Rubens, Titan,
Carlo Doci, Teniess, Paul vcronesc, Van Dyke and
other eminent masters, which were sold for sums In
many not than equivalent to the value OF tho
frames and canvas not a, all likely to be genuine
pctures-an opinion which tho rascibc auctionc de-
nounccd in such violent language that the general infer
appeared to be drawn by those present that the cr
cism must have been just II would not provoke
30 much indignation This impression is strengthened
by the fact that the pictures offered for sale brought less
prices than the former occasion, and many Of them
found bidders at all II the suctoneer had paid
attention the sale instead OF intcriardng his
rccomme ndations OF the works on the easel by Ill
tempered attacks upon the newspapers, It IL probable
that moaey might have been realized We observed
also couple of fussy old gentlemen smiling around the
tho author Of the Objectionable newspaper
article, and We overheard amusing conversation be-
tween of the irate individuals and gentleman who
sat quietly reading paper before the sale commenced
somew hat TO this effect
Ira,c gentleman Qoquiw,-'Dd you write that article
about the picture sale last night. sirfn
Quiet gentleman, astonshed replied, who the doy,i
YOU s,r7"
"Iam Robert Smith, Of Philadelphia sir.
II havn't the honor Of knowing Mr. Smith, said the
quiet gentleman.
"Dd you write that article sid" said tho ipdIgnan,
smith
~ never answer impcrtincnt Questions" was The I'm
perurbabe reply and the gentleman continued 10 read
his paper
II have right TO ask for have been grossly injured
in my reputation rcoined smith, Of Philadelphia We
looked for at this junctmc but the gentleman nd
dressed simply replied. ''who injured you SIR whs,
have got To do with your roputaeonf"
'Thc HERALD, sir, In that Infamous artlcls"
'won you had oetter go To the HsRAlD for redress;
bat don't bother me- n you plcssc3
Our might have dcceIvo4 us but think we
heard the impcrurbablc gontcmsh Just about this
request his rnterrosator TO besate himself TO place
where the thermometer is suppos4d 10 To pretty
high degree Fahrenheit.
THIS episode dd not appear 10 have much TO do with
the picture sale, for which twenty thirty people
waiting bat II afforded amusement to us and
the feg others who happened ovcrbcar the convcr
sagon.
stepped in and dechrsu I'M E-urs~rrrr -rus-ns.nr
shell article present no ought io be pu, out but
after rampaging about for tina, did not appear
that the two indignant old gentlemen found the oh,
noxious indiy idus.
When the aactioneer finished his introductory ph
lppc upon the nc~spapcr the name OF which he dii
not nenton-fus-y gentleman number QUO cried out,
SIS the author Of that oricism tho room, n " I
propose that hc b. kicked out"
Il don't know sald Mr.. Leeds la an emolidal
tone 'bui II you ind him, you have my pernilon
To kick him out
Now, thought W., wen have Jolly shndy, sura No
10 attend picture sale bat this looks like gov.
However a. we dd notice that any 10 bly,
eecied concluded thai tho sport polio and I
that only going ~ have a tam" /
and ordinary picture suction after al. e. u /
tho fussy old gentlemen oouIured the AZ oncor 1
advertise any more in the paper wniciJad the
hardihood to say that psturcs which n gsiuir would
be worth from nfty ahundrei thoasAHi iont fin
deed they could be had at any price under ns ynmor
sold for forty nfty collars that na fEpco 70
the Nav Yoag HfRA15
The sale West on, io-ever the anc,onesr vidng biz
cloqucnoe bstseen ncen praise % tho tares and
occasional ssrls At the press and the tohs' vho
had tho misfortune 10 know q gcntt r0fk ~
sr from daib We hoped 10 \ the four
really goS plctd~ q Lacca .iordsno fhe scArons
bring a food pee, bat p'body vouiDb fgr them.
shoNf pictar was offered Of tho ~ Family The
anthsgei,y ofwhioh a. senalns Rate was soaciiei
for bytn ansnynous IeteF which tho tsctoDecr rad
staif that u Rubens did not palsrbe picture the
wnS knew none u bis pupils that ga have painted
~ The parties present appeared 10 sjfe Ia ue gnor
AZ o The writer, for bid fyhs picture a. ALL
yerai oihers passed over In 4 same way. To .
bhcf pnoe pad Tor any o. thcsforks y ~ "oh Z
tsiers, we think, rns two hundf ard nny dollar,
hi" apme ~ Them sid a. i0~ 4 ten doDs, rith
rsin's one very larys pioiare IN fame shich ,
"a. worth al least hundred dolsf -d. ffeDa and .
~ hiy.fynf dollars asd aftv II wbrttef u
lsihs ~ The temper ~ the -ac's rr - Ssnt 81 a.
X lminai1n N The buyers, - The eeis ~ bpreTt er'h
- ~ ,his c2iectoB u ise was q TIE ''oid mAstsnf