The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-06


The Town Council of Liverpool has had under
discussion proposal for the establishment Of q
fine art gallery for that important town. The cost
is estimated at f15,000. Some opposition to the
project has been shown, and the further considers
ton Of 1t has been postponed.
The Musee de Cluny has received bequest OF
some Importance from the late NJ. Cottenot, con-
sistng OF ooJets d'art furniture and armor. The
armor lately belonging to the Soltykon collection,
for some time past deposited in the Chateau de-
Pierrefonds is to remain in that place.
A selection OF sketches Of landscapes by the late
Mr.. G. Wallwyn Shepheard, and reproduced by the
autotype process, Is described as being composed
OF works which rank as rather pretty amateurish
productions, exhibiting trees and pastures, water
an d rocks, and other elements Of nature, tran
scribed in style that recalls the articles OF the
late Mr.. J. ID. Harding But, artistically speaking,
the sketches are OF very small account
Mr.. John w. Wilson, who lately presented O
fine Constable to the Louvre, has lent his large
collection OF pictures, by ancient and modern mas
%nts9ue es at Brussels the eThS
ton opened on the 18th inst. M. Jules Claye, OF
lection superby printed with eyscSeern Sai mar HU
gins, and, above ALL enriched with fity.nve ad-
mrabe engravings by french artists lists showing,
liaries OF each painter, not merely the peculiar
manner Of each engraver. A certain proportion
few bear names OF note, such as Reynolds s'Mrs.
Seyforth and Her Daughter much greater num-
Der OF these pictures are by Flemish and Dutch
painters.
With respect to English pictures at the Vienna
Exhibition the saturday Rerie,c remarks EFT ~
with pain that we again speak OF the humiliatino
position forced upon our English artists. Seyenty-
two pictures, even though they had been better
selected than those now exhibited at Vienna can
not possibly do justice to our native school, Yet
lection even such as IL Is. Still every one must
feel that English pictures. usually limited ro
cabinet size, and for the most part con-
tent With genre treatment, necessarily
suffer when brought into competition with
large canvases from France and Germany. and
even from Italy and Russia. We devOutly wish
that It were possible for the whole Royal Academy
to go over bodily TO Vienna. Academicians and
Associates would then have to confess, as did Sir
brought into contact with noble works whereof
they could not 80 much as comprehend even the
fundamental principles. Yet we naturally looked
f0r some compensation In she direction of English
landscape and OF native water-color drawing Bur
the good cause OF the one was rendered hopeless
by Two chief productions from the pencil or mr..
Richard Redgrave. r. A.. while as to English water
colors what do We md Why, that here conspicu-
ously are the men and the works that stand at a
discount In London. The space assigned To Eng
land Is av0wedly inadequate and yet as If TO mako
bad worse, the walls reserved for the fine arts are
usurped BY botanical diagrams and other abort,ons
OF science and art.n Never before has n nat,ns
gone into battle more deliberately counting deest
IL Is right that our English painters sculptors AMI
architects, when they ind themselves huminated
In Vienna as they were In Paris should know thai
II Is TO their generous and dsinterested friends az
SOUTH KensinRson that thsr gratitude WIN be- due.t