The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-19
rOREIGN Art MOTIFS.

Partisan artists bard work pictures for tho
approaching international Exhibition. Tho painters
Of Berlin, MUNICH Vienna and Dusseldorf are putting
the finishing touches to their pictures intended for the
National Exhibition Of Painting which opens In the
National Gallery in Berlin In September. Middle class
painters abroad said be selling their pictures
low prices but tho lrst class men, whose pictures
harder than to gct demand thor usual high rates.
schreycr, OF Frankfort has been painting in Paris
for tho last three months but has now returned home
Oore is back PARIS again from his annual vacation
In London, and is bard ut work modelling massive
vase on which be $50 figures for the exhibition
OF 1878
hildebraud's statue .Adam" has bcen lately placed
in tho municipal museum of Leipslc.
Tho ''Ride for L'c," sccnc from that wild FREQ
booting lie SO common in Germany during tho Middle
Ages has lately been finished by Schuch Dusseldorf
and is highly spoken Of
An unfinished head OF "Lady Hamilton BAG
chante,n by George Romney, recently sold IN
London Tor f6I o..
"a Dag and Rabbit" by Landscer, said to have bsen
painted at sixteen years OF age brought f3sS los at
the Same SALE
Alfred Hunt the English landscapst is sketchns in
Norway.
Boughton has nearly finished commission for the
Corcoran Museum, The subject being amusing cpl
sodc during the administration OF William the Testy
as Governor of New York. The Governor placarded
edict against smoking and one summer evening the
whole male population OF smokers assembled with
their pipes seats placed In front Of the Governors
residence and solcmnly pulled away, with their wvos
and daughters behind them. The Is taken at the
moment when tho Governor rushes incensed out from
his door find that from elder TO Waterman the male
population is against him to u man. Tue picture ia
praised delicacy Of color and feeling, for thorough
ness OF characterization and much quiet humor.
NEW YORK ARTISTS AT ST. LOUIS.
Tho Now York artists will be we'll represented in tho
Art Department Of tho ST. Louis Fair aud Exposition,
which opens on tho 10th Of September H. W. Derby has
beeu appointed agent OF the Exposition ana get
ting together quite u collection. The following will be
forwarded by Wiimurt this week, being chiefly
from q private collcction:-"The Homo of the
Pioneer" by Church; Boughton's ''rrys,inG
Place. "A Girl Reading" by Huntington
"Roso Leaves" by George A. Baker; landscape,
by DuranI; Il couple Of nnc examples OF tho Brothers
Hart; sunset scene by Bierstadt; one of Inncss
landscapes .rhe Gates Of sunset" taken FROM Long
fellows "Aiawatha," by Samuel Coleman; an autumn
scene, by Kenset.; .Roynards Breakfast" a charac-
tcristic example Of TAFT; two marines, by lie Haas
Cropscy's AMBITIOUS Centennial picture, 1.-THE Old
Red Mill" 'Ruth and Naomi" by Henry
Peters Gray; small J. G. Brown
and ono VI I. L. Smiths well known
win'cr sceneS a cattle and sheep by Eugene Yer
beethoven; Hnc sheep picture by Tschagscny Sebes
"Evcning ut Home an admirable candle light effect
Aunray's ..MaterIal Love" and two ngurc pieces by
Thotn 'Baby's Breakfast" and "Domcstc Duty, will
go ON with tho American pictures much larger In
stai,nent Of the latter among which arc couple Of
nno Bierstadts win DO sent on next woeK