Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-15
ART NOTES.

Meissioner, the iavorite artist of the En-
pre-, recently completed picture for the
Vienna Exposition, but sold it a. soon rs it
was finished to a London dealer for so ,000
who instantly resold it, at a considerable ad-
vance, TO a member of Parliament It is
one of the artists largest work. being 20 by
q inches. 1t represents village sgn-paint-
er who has just given the finishing touches
to an ale-house Bacchus, showing his handi-
work to mine host. He has also sold pic
ture, on which he Is still engaged for
SEQ, 900
As companion piece to the equestrian
statue Of Admiral Farragut, who was never
on horseback in his life, there ought to he a
bronze represention Of Gen. Sherman charc-
ing the heights Of Mission Ridge in canoe
The Women's Journal says .- Miss Hos
mer's monument to Miss Falconer. young
English lady who died in Rome. has been
placed in the Church of ST. Andrea della
Fratte, in that city and is the only seulp-
ture by an American artist to be iound in
any of the Italian churches"
The artist NIillais designs to commemorate
by a painting the heroic conduct Of Cap
tain Knowles Of the North1eet.
Gustaye Dore is oyerworked nervous,
melancholy. and morbidly seli-critieal. and
talks Of taking voyage round the world.
Randolph Rogers has been engaged to
make the statue of Wm. II. Seward 90 be
erected in New York. and will soon return
to Rome to commence his work lie has
won an enyiable fame from his superior
work in the marble statue Of" John Adams.
the has relief for the doors Of the capitol
extension at Washington, representingeyents
in the life Of Columbus. his design for me
mortal monuments and his colossal bronze
statue Of Lincoln at Philadelphia.
The design of the Bethesda fountain in
Central Park. New York, which was executed
by Miss Emma Stebbins. Is illustrative Of the
pool Of Bethesda, its benefcent troubling
by an angel. and the salutary effect upon the
blind, the halt and the withered, as describ,
ed in St. Johns gospel. The treatment of
the subject i singularly graceful and poetic
rejecting great credit upon the accomplish
ed lady artist. The cost Of the fountain
was above $4,000.
Marshall o. Roberts Of New Y ork has srent
about $4,000 on picture, in Rome this
spring.
The Washington Star states that Powell.
the artist, has been working some more on
his picture of the battle Of Lake Erie, at
the Capitol, and has filed in about an acre
Of unfinished canvass since the adjournment
of Congress. 1t was a great picture then,
but is now very much more So Thirty or
forty additional cannon have been brought
.l,a I Il
the gallant Perry to his new flagship These
guns are pouring hot shot upon the hero in
the most concentrated manner. Sixty or
seventy new cannon balls have been PAINTED
upon the water in the vicinity of the boat ;
and the bottom Of that frail vessel i, 50 clus-
tered up with them that the men can't row
with any satisfaction at all The buatswain
has been flOored by some of the balls. and
he exhibits a good deal of discomposure at
the weight of a sixty-four FOUNDER on the
small Of his back Two or three Of the row.
ers have " caught crabs" in consequence Of
the water being so full of cannon balls; the
commodore : bootlegs are jammed with spent
balls, and a very large one rests directly on
the top of the uncovered head. His little
son tugs at his coat-tail, and pleads with him
to sit down out Of harms way but this re-
markable man will not sit down, he will not
bulge, and with his head laid back upon his
shoulders, and his breast barred to the iron
tempest, he gazes calmly into the blue empy-
rean. The artist, it should be added, has
thrown out the chest of the hero consider
ably more than it was last Winter. 50 that a
straight line from his chin to his waist
band would cut him into three pieces 1t Is a
great picture. The correspondent ofthe Boston
Globe is nearly as unfattering. He admits,
sarcastically, that twenty-five thousand dol
lars worth ofpaint is not to be % sneezed at. -
He objects, however, to Captain Perry :
leaving the St Lawrence, fresh from smoke
confusion, blood and battle, d" the very pink
of propriety, in spotless, exquisitely arrayed
garments :" to the man at the stern of the
boat % transfxed by terror at something
perhaps ghost :" to the ensign being hoist
ed in the bows of the small boat instead Of
as now, astern. and to n general treatment
of the anatomical structure of the figures
as if such structure were mere accident oi
nature People often take the picture fol
the "Ianding of the Pilgrims