New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-10

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shall aope to make a worthy review Of Der Art here
after No such exhibition OF what is being done IN
Tngaud to-day has ever, we are told beer made IN
any foreign country. It far 3urpasses the French
Exhibition Of ~ and the Vienna OF 1873. Certain
IL is we have ucveE begun to see 90 many English
pictures in this country are here IN Philadelphia
to-day. 1t will be nj once inspIrDgt to the lover oil
Art to run over this galaxy of names ana
viii Justify abstinence from any haStF
review of them. One room is devoted to the de-
ceased mastcrs and THIS il the only unsatisfactory
p1y:,)r Of the h. gsh exhibition. Here, however
hne Reynolds his portrait by himself, lent oy
the j, yal Academy; Gainsborough, bat not ms
best, tIo1gh largo picture a portrait of the
Duchess Of Richmond; "Dolbadoen Castle" BY
Turner; "T1e Lock-" by Constable; Null
readys "yiliage BuiIoon :" zcGany's Meet
ing Of tho Members Of the Royal
Acadcuy - the Life-sch9ol;" Landscapes by
Creswick, Calcott stanfeld, Wilkes Boys digging
for a rat" Owens Boy and Kitten" Optics " Han-
nah More,p ,laclise's Macbeth" NorthcCte's
Marriage OF the Young Princes" 30 Portraits, by
Lawrence HiltOn's Rape of Ganymede," Ettys
"Nymph and Satyrs,' Bany's " Adam and Eve
Rgaud's Samson" and Frth's Marriage OF the
Prince of Wales" with two pictures " West locals
TO Newcastle in Philadelphi2) lent By the Queen.
Here many great names, but the works they are
signed to disappointing in most cases, ana we
thiuk it would not have been difficult to have got
better examples Of Tu.nsr, Of MTlready, OF Cams
borough, Of Wilsie o. Constable. Sul, let us not
he too exacting
ENGLISH MODERN ROOMS.
The main English modern room contains three
fine Frederick Leghton's-" Summer Noon" The
Court Of the jews House at Damascus" and 1.-THE
Singer" With the exception of the last, all Leigh
TOMS qualities AZ an artist and poet reyealedin
these pictures, which show mm one of the huest
p inters of modern times. His Summer Moon" Is
"a masterpiece of purest ray serene. Then come
Watts's Portraits OF Leighton and Millais !;
Holman HUNTS curious Portrait Of him
self; n charming study Of child by
Mllas; n noble Sea-Shore by II. Moore, and
another as fine but in II wholly different way, by
John Brett, with still another by Colin Hunter,
"Irawiers Coming AshOre"-thcse three not match
able in their kind in any other country. Then there
are at least five Alma Iademas, one as fine as
another, The Vintage Festival" THE Mummy"
The Sick Grln THE COnnoisseur,p and
scene or series of scenes ont of the Ntebelungen
cycle, these Last two in water color. Prlnseps
"Clc0pa'ra" the "Minuet" and best of all, After
tie B,ttle-La YcndGe;" j. C.. Hook frst-rate ex-
ample Down to the Mines" j. Z Lewis The
PRAYER OF Faih:" Filde's " / Met Maid from Milk
CbndD-a little masterwork BouGhtons "Cantcr-
bury Pnrri,ns,n Calleron's Hall Hours with the
Best Authors I. Hollis Mother is Gone" and
81 am the Resurrection and the Life"-al-
most cruelty moving pictures; Geo. ID.
ie,l;cs al sent Thee late ROsrate Wreath"
charming example; two surprising drawings by JOp-
ling of WHOM we had not heard but whose
&" ilossy." portrait of young girl, aud winter"
are painted With great life and expression, and with
n delightful sodiiy and transparency of execution.
Other NAMES, a Louis Haghe, who sends fine " In
terror Of the Sistne Chapel Miss llutrie both the
sistcrsl, who show their Flower Pieces and no one
ever painted flowers better New 'nrters =" Out in
the Cold !" B0uWers 'Crce and ncr >"Ihe;" j. Il.
Linton's Foot Washing" fine every way, color,
drawing. ch racter composition an Laudaeer's
q" Sick Monkey" one of the best pictures he ever
painted, and a great treat 10 ii. re, too. are
Politics. "TouchstOuo and Audrey q. hardson's
&" In a Gondoli" and Prince Hal ana POiaS," SAINTS
"Whittinetonp and two decorative panels by Poyn-
ter We regret greatly the absence OF any specimen
of the work OF the late Frederick WalkrF-what
better ti the early loved and lost than % have
sent a fae work Of hs to make hi new farIC IN
new land l-nor does the small specimen of Mason
another great loss foT Englandsweet ms 1t IS, satisfy
those Of Us who have heard about him, but know no
way t. learn WHIST he was.
If tho English had not shown themselves prompt
TO the tore in everything connected with the Exhibit
tion II might be worth while To emphasize the fact
That their Fine ArU Department has been exception
ally well managed from The start. The pictures are
hung with great taste, judgment, and fairness; the
Inferior works are 50 few they make no Impression,
ard every good work is made 10 tell. IL ia to be
wished that the English water colOrs had not be~l
obi ged 20 be hung in the corIldor but they as
nd tla cip,,,
only it will be absolutely necessary to guard them
from the meddling hand and the appreeiative pokes
and hourishes of canes and umbrellas in the hands
If enthusiastic picture lovers.
The Swedish pictures are stupid and uninterest-
ing ia the Memorial Hall that it's charity to
pass tlem by without notice We only single out
good strong portrait by G. Roseu and "Sprits Ris-
ing from the Water delicate and imaginative, by
A. Mamebr0n
I he Spanish sid of this room contains some good
specimens of Morties, Ribera, Cane, Murillo, with
tryptch by soms German artist, either executed IN
Spain. IA declared. or else brought there in very
early tines. The modern pictures are not very en-
coumgng, but there is truly uoble picture by AlcjO
Vera, painted in Rome in 90, "The Burial Of St
Lorenzo" which deserves particular mention 1t has
genuine igious feeling Of high order. Other
works by F. Lucas, singular i.aitator of Goya
by Pablo Conzaops Interior of the Church La SEQ, in
Siragossa, and a painting by Agrasot, an artist
known 70 us only by his watercoors, make up a
collection that is we fear, only too adequate n
representative q what the Spain of to-day do in
Art.
THE ANNEX.
In the annex, the ouly collection besides the
American that shows any completeness is the
Italian. aud the pictures there do not deserve that
should detain our readers a single moment in no
ticing them. There is not that rises to the level