The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-04
ART ECHOES.

MOnaWk.
Mr.. r. M. Pratt has in hand q cunning little pic
ture entitled "Mother and Child" In which the
mother, her back turned toward the observer is
represented as telling story to the listening little
one. Mr.. Pratt has just packed or lot OF
Christmas portraits and Is engaged on some others.
N. B. Kilien has his hands comparatively idle for
o few days, having just relieved himself OF New
Years cargo of portraits
Francesca Augero has just completed 'Rebecca
at the Wen" and two Assyran heads-companion
pictures They are full OF rich color.
Laura woodward Is putting the finishing
touches to o scene from Orange county, N. T., and
one from wyoming Valley. Pa.
Miss II. j. Blauvelt is engaged on scene near
Kingston. She has on hand number of interest
ing views taken at Cherry Pond, among the White
Mountains, n II.
J. M. Hart has completed his "Indian Summer"
and succeeded in high degree OF perfection IN
reproducing the woody texture Of the sheep me
season represented, as indicated by the title, Is
that in which the trees are newly barred of leaves,
and when snow might be expected in twenty-four
hours or might not arrive for a month. Mr.. Hart
intends to put little more conscience work"
into 'Tndian Summer" but so far as average dis
cernment is concerned the picture is completed
J. II. Lazarus has finished series OF portraits,
among which are those of Mrs. Lawson and Lucius
Tuckerman, cousin to Henry I. Tuckerman.
p. p. Ryder has quite batch Of newly finished
pictures Among them are "Good News" painted
for the Artists Fund; "a Summer Reverie,"
though the expression of the face given is scarcely
that OF brOoding an ideal head iull OF thought and
refinement, but evidencing no especial strength,
and ''Expectatlon," representing hungry child
with raised spoon and anticipative eyes.
There is large class Of artists, not only In this
city, but elsewhere, whO nursing themselves IN
sense OF their own reputation, disdan to be men,
toned in public side by side with those not so well
known and not so meritorious. The feeling is a
morbid one the offspring Of vanity and conceit
1t would be impossible for instance. to disparaQe
Dickens by allowing paragraph respecting him to
follow one about Yates. No harm can he done
Shakespeare by coupling new fact relating to him
with one relating to Mrs. Southw0rth. Whenever
therefore, an obscure artist is engaged on some
thing that readers may feel interested in we shall
apprise them Of the fact, however wounded the
great artistic lights may be.
The restoration Of the paintings OF the choirroof
OF Salisbury Cathedral, England, has been finished
They are valuable specimens OF eighteenth century
work.
Mr.. Alfred Rankley, painter OF considerable
ability. and well known in England by his pictures
of gypsy life and character, died during the week
ending December IA.
Some Of the principal objects among the antiqu
for the Metropolitan Museum OF this city are being
photographed by Mir. $. Thompson, OF London, who
recently performed the same operation for some
curiOsities In the British Museum.
collection of water color drawings and oil
paintings sold at Liverpool, December II, in 100
The Winter exhibition OF the Junior Water Color
Society, In London, contains no contributions by
+. geayis, l.. Haghe, H. b. Roberts. G. Shalders,
G. vacher, v. W. Bromley, Il. Herk0mer and J.
MahOney. .
Mr.. A. Q. Cow has Just exhibited December IA,
in London "The First Provision Boat for the Be-
sieged Town." In it the drawing power is said to
take the place inadequately Of the painting power.
The subject represents besieged town In the Low
Countries during the latter part OF the War OF In
"Land Once More" by Mr.. G. Green, Of London,
humorous ability. It is pen and ink study. and
represents boat load OF Cockneys coming ashore
Mr. J. b. Linton, or London, has Just completed
anu exniolted picture, to which he has given no
name, put which represents woman and her little
smoking his pipe, sits on a cottage easement sill.
1t is impossible to surmise the story. The finish is
mentioned as unequal and, in parts, over soft and
velvety
To q recent London exhibition Mr.. Gregory con.
s% in and as ray
instruments forwarded by Small and Knburne are
equally insignificant.
not less than rwenty-threc bits from the Brittany
coast The principal materials consist Of scraps Of
SedSnOTe, WIFI sInRlc HGuTc usually le1nale),
sea-weed cart. few rocks and generally sunny
effect. One OF the best specimens is "sunny
Hours" girl waiting for the tide to leave her feet.
Mi. q. Cattermole OF London, Is accused Of
walking too sedulously in the steps of his great
namesake to preserve his own proper facility OF
composition and sense of the picturesque.
The late Mr.. Tidey lett several chalk studies for
picture which his London friends would probably
have admired, and which was to have represented
PygmaliOn before his statue as 1t aw axes to life.
II Mr.. Boniface, the actor, ever plays Pygmaion
in this city again We hope he will have the oppor.
inspiration lsuc6 as Mr. Tdey's probably Would would
have beenl ere venturtng upon the delicate task:
The M london journals msnton with
series OF thirty small travelj ottings IN one frame.
SObriety OF color, keeping and tone and unaf-
critics Of Mr. Hugh Carter'sjust exhibited pictures
STUDY Of Dutch Interior" and ''scents ON the
series Of sketches by Mr.. Bach, exhibited dur.
ing the week ending December IA by the Junior
Water Color Society, London, is accused Of being
more than usually superficial, snowy and conven.
tional.
The English papers do not unanimously endorse
Mr.. e. W. Fahey as a figure painter. HIS studies OF
modelling, ana to bear the same blackisA opacity
that characterizes his landscapes and cabbages.
London Institute OF Painters In Water Colors, Is
praised for It's quiet harmony and luminousness;
Eaogy B ss1 to ns wornns and
Mr.. Collier IA follower evidently Of David Cox
has been creating some excitement in the English
silver light among the rain Clouds and his telling
treatment OF sky effect in his "Ilills Near Loeb
Awe-Twilght" and arundel Castle from the
Park"
Mr.. Orrock, who used to admire David Cox so
intensely as to initiate even his worst name risms,
Is said in his recent labors to have thrown Off this
allegiance to a great extent He has attained
originality $50 the report from across the Atlantic
Isl in his "Leominster Church, Sussex" and four
sketches Of Arundel In one frame.
The most admired specimens of still life recently
exhibited in London December 14 are Mrs
Duneld's flowers and Mr.. Sherrns fruit
The Illustrated London NelcS is charmed with Mr.
Leitch's "Sunset" and "Brks OF Invermayu now
exhibiting in that CITY, II declares that they re-
veal degree OF taste in composition and coornQ
not generally appreciated.
In his new picture, "Sand- Carrying, Bossiney
Hole, Cornwall,n which is direct study from ma