, 1876-01-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

J. r. Robertson ia euEsgad upon large Gsns
picture.
Miss Era J. hammond has received large Or
der for portraits from outaide the city.
4 statuette Of D. G. French'a Minute-Man,"
erected at Concord At the centennial Iast spring,
appears in the window OF Jansen, McClurg l. Co.
T. L. Houghton, Reaper Block, has finished
portraits Of Joseph Sherwin and wife to such
satisfaction tho. he has received orders for pict
ures of tho rest Of the family, and has already
begun to paint them.
L, Earle has placed two or thrse striking
pictures on exhibition lately, one OF flying ducks.
1t Jansen. McClurg Co.'S one u Water-coloE)
Of couple Of snipe snd landscape at O'Briens
gallery. The latter is the most carefully painted
xate1-co1or, aside from miniatures, produced
here within tho last year.
Er. G. P. A. Heaty+ tne portrait~painter, vas
to 70 to Washington last evening. THURSDAY
afternoon he held farewell reception It bis
studio on Huron street, which wes largely at
OF Hiss Bryan, Mrs. Palmer, Mics McCagg,
Judge Catou, Mr. Willisma, 8 child at Mrs. Han-
darson, and others, we're exhibited.
The life-sze picture OF President Eliot, Of
Harvard. which William Page 10 at present occu-
pied in painting, was ordered BY the Presidents
through AIr. Eliot's a1ertions. This portrait
represents comparatively young man in his
Presidents q gown, with his hands dropped on
either ade, and holding in the night one a com
mencemeut programme and his cap in the left.
The portrait is perfect picture OF 1epose aud
simple dignity.
Hisa Annie G. Shaw, besides several new plct-
uras in her accustomed sound and uell-con-
t1olled style Of leadscap ape-painhng. has now in
her studio 10 Metropolitan Block IN interesting
picture hy ; foreign artist.-Ortleb, Of Munich,
-vhose " Valentines Day and ~ Lot us
Praise the Lord " were among the most interest
ing at the pictures In Highvooda gallery The
subject 10 not unlike the Falentlnea Day.
and represents TWO nischiesons uoaidens and
rustic callant in kitchen with the usual access
eions Of Munich inteuo1s,-pans, and pots, and
walis Of broken color. TIE young 1adiea arc
comparing small portrait Of their friend With
the original, and he does not kno" how TO take
their comments, which evidently are free and
fesrlesB. It is pictnre Of high technical quail
ity, pleasing and powerful co1oft &na c1eot e1-
PRESTON OF i1s idea.
4 model for an equestrian statue Of Cen
Mcphe1eon, ordered by tho Society OF the Army
OF the Tennessee, hes been made by Lous T.
Rebisso, young Cincinnati sculptor. le u CO.
lossa in Proportions, being about one-thtfd larger
than life. It represents Gen. McPherson, nos
With drawn sword or on rearing eteed. pus slt"
ting in an attitude Of observation. His horse Il
rained in. but ha4 one foot raised 10 an act OF
impxtfeuce. The General has bis feld-glass tn
his right hand, and he ID looking intsntly, with
his head turned slightly to the right, - II watch
ing the movement Of troops or Of the enemy.
1he attitude is happily chosen. WMle 1t Goes
not offend By the violence that would be re-
CURED to Indicate battle scene. it gives eraer
ana more soldier!y bearing for the conmAndee
Of m army, and is at the Rama time. by no
maaaR devoid Of action. It is we'll spoken OF N
1oe papers. The work is intended for the nonu-
nens III Mcpherson Square IN Washington.