The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-24
FOREIGN ART NOTES.

susan Durant, the sculptress, died In Paris In the
latter part OF January. She was q pupil Of the
Baron de Triquetri. -
The sub-librarian Of Trinity Cambridge has pre-
scented to that college some valuable Anglo Saxon
antiquities
The French government has forbidden the ex-
posure in the Partisan kiosks OF the engraving OF
'The Late Emperor Napoleon the Third Alter
DEATH" recently published in The Graphic.
Edward Weldon, the marine artist, died In the
latter part Of January In his peculiar line he was
unrivalled.
On January % the Royal Academy elected W. q.
D. Davis, landscape painter and ]. Z. Hodgson a
Associates and T. o. Barlow as Engraver Of the
New Glass.
W. W. Deane, an Associate OF the Society OF
Painters In Water Colors, is dead. lie was forty
seven.
Mr.. Valentine Prinsep is preparing "view OF
the Staircase, Devonshre House." Respecting his
work representing the destruction Of the
swine the London Athen9un remarks that 1t
''gives view OF gigantic cliffs rising from calm
shadow lying on the water and the t
and broken on the horizon by a CLEAN OF white
light which appears in the SKY, and on the
from the 'front.' lofty detached rock s' raises
the view from the distant sky Close to the front,
and on our lett OF the picture are the black swine
every pig like ink, and In various stages OF distress
and terror. The head of clir has long ago fallen
into the sea- leaving half Its height to be filed by
tdlus OF debris. On the crumbling slope without,
parapet, FAR too steep to permit return. far too
loose to allow Of their standing STILL are the swine
A few have already taken the plunge; black, fat
very brink, contemplate for moment the deep
green water; others slide ana slide; others, urged
BY the weight , OF those behind, go in the mass
Albert Jacquemart has just published "The His
tory Of Ceramic Art" An able reviewer says:-
IN. Jacquemart treats his subject in its entirety,
commencing with Egypt, China and Japan, and
including primitive pottery OF all kinds, but the
y Wf tin him
ductions OF the great Italian potreries are dwelt
upon with the learned enthusiasm OF master In the
art OF criticism. Alter this the French Renaissance
supplies the author with another grand division OF
subject; while Holland England, Spain and other
Deed Sy a p noS eI nd cn Cont
great value to the ceramic student, and the whole
IS contained In single volume OF 700 pages. But
contains series OF etchings by the son Of the
author, M Jules Jacquemart, whose power OF de-
plotting texture, ornamentation light, and almost
color In objects OF art, in black and white has
tainly been surpassed it has been equalled.
The etchings Of the Jewelled and other objects In
the French government some few years since, are
known to all the art world OF Europe"
ns xa ~ NJ Ward Is painting picture
and the Duke OF Anou to the bedchamber OF Ad.
miral Coligni after his attempted assassination.
of Chatterton-hs discovery by his foster mother,
Mrs. Edkins IN the act OF concocting the earliest
specimens OF the so-calcd crowley Poems"
Mr. II. Warren has, in consequence OF his nearly
total loss of sight, resigned the presidentship OF
the Institute OF Painters in Water Colors.
Mr.. George Shalders, landscape and animal
painter, Is dead, aud leaves motherless young
family unprovided Tor.
Ricard, the popular French portrait painter and
decorator, died January o.. He was wei known III
France, Germany and England.