The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-08
Picture Week in the West
End Studios.
WHO PAINTED THE "sKATER?'
Boat Racing-Operatic. Theatrical and
Literary Gossip.
"WITH TRUMPETS ALSO AND SHAWMS."

London has been unusually gay during the past TWO
weeks, poIwthstan ding the ever deepening gloom OF
the political horizon Her Majesty has condescended
TO visit her mucn abhorred London palace and the
heir apparent has given Uall at Marlborough House.
winch was marked by the iainting and mysteries Of
ono OF the regning bellies OF London society Tho lady
was ienderly by the royal hostess aud Il is
said that ladies' conkroom was monopolizcd by
The fair suGerer-only "Mrs" you know--a crowd Of
fuchs aud countesses had to walt until she was
sufficiently recovered before they could leave. Then,
on The same day, there was q drawing ROOM which
was characterized by an unusual display OF budding
beauty aud profusion of ostrich feathers all Of tho
regulation color and arrangement, according to tho
solemn warning OF the Lord Chamberlain. And
Picture Week has come upon and next Sunday will
be Picture sunday. picture Week. Irrevcrcnt
journal, rs the ridiculous show TO ignorant people,
who know little and less for art yet who think II
incumbent upon them TO 60 stua,os and pronounce
futile opinions upon work whereof they know nothing
They happy. and tho artists are miserable.
From beginning to end it is fraud Be this az II
may Picture Sunday is kind Of tete day for tho
artists who issue cards OF Invitation to their friends
requesting the ..honor OF VISIT their studios ION
Sunday, March 81 or Monday, April from two until
i've r. NJ" Let the cynics sneer as they may these
Invitations much priced and sought alter by all
kinds OF people, Tor Picture Week sort OF dress
rehearsal the Royal Academy Exhibition and the
privileged guests enabled to privately in the
studios where they begun and finished, the art
works which month later will be the talk Of tho
town exhibition TO any one who can produce
q shilling at the turntables OF burlington House.
AN AMERICAN OLD MASTER
~he long correspondence which has been going
IN the papers to tho artist who painted s'rhe
Skater is settled, and clcar, the World
that Il was painted not by Sir Martin Archer Shee,
but by the American artist, Gilbert Charles Stuart
Stuart, born in the State OF Rhode Island In 1884.
was IN England IRON 1915 TO 1894. During portion
OF that lime he sved very obscurev and suffered
much from poverty. He compelled. indeed, to
abandon tor while aud musical abilities
account, accepting the post OF organist to the
Church OF 81 Vedast, Foster iane Cheapside, At
when he entered VESTS studio as an assistant alter.
ward, upon Vests advice, he opened studio upon
ms own account. sters locked 70 him, aud he pres
emily took rank among tue most esteemed portrait
painters oil the day He is said 10 have executed
p,e,ares Of Reynolds. West. wooile.,, Alderman
other distinguished personages. We may ask with
Hans Breitmanu, Where are those pictures now
eccentric, cratic and scandalously improvdens II
was always 'eiiher least or famine with hin"
notes an American biographer ''One day be was
dining with earis, dukes and princes, tho OF a
brilliant saloon; in twenty-iour hours he crack
lng jokes TO his companions IN debtors prison. "
He returned 10 America without the fortune no ghs
have aud saved IN England and painted the best
portrait ever executed oil Washington He offered
Il 20 the State Massachusetts Tor 00o which Troy
refused gve stuart survived until 1873; his last
a portrait oil John Quincy Adams IL
b. hoped that other examples OF Stuart be forth
coming among later exhibitions OF the old
darlington House. the painter Of ..ine Skater" has
Rssuredly been too long overlooked Ia England
TIKI BOAT RACE
No sooner will Picture Sunday have como and gon q
tbau tho blue fever-aso annual-wfll break out;
there strong prcmontory symptoms already, bus
drivers whips and nosiers windows being Sigh
effected. Both the Thames, the Oxford
right at Tapiow, where they enjoying the nOspi-
tality Of their No. and the Cantabs at Putney
The proposed discontnuanoe Of the press boat has
gvcn great offence TO the sporting prcss that unfor-
tunac steamers unruiy conduct at last years. race
having DOUBT occasioned tho formal request made
by tho University crews TO the Thames Conservancy,
that IL shall be prohibited from joining tho
little fleet OF steamers which follows In tho wake
Of the Fights. 10 remarkable thing TINT
the University crews still cling to the tradition
that the race entirely private affair and that the
500 900 people line the banks Pace day are
only suIerancc. Considering that tho public
trsflc Of the Is suspended that they may row
their race, that thoy do inclined to
OF tho many better and remotor stretches
OF that England. this affected tradition
becomes something more than ridiculous.
WHAT AMArEURY
think will interest your boating circles II quote
ut length rather ilnaiured paragraph which has up.
pearsd IN the Pail Mall Goxcte upon tho uch vcxed
question Of tho differcnceor the Observation-Disclosures
a professional and amateur oarsman. II Is rs for
lows:-
Tho expected arrival OF another American rowing
to contend with English amateurs brings up
once more tue question OF what IL bed 10 constitute
amateur on tho other side Of the Atlantic. There
r,okoned amateurs In America would DO counted as
onass here. They artisans, living by
bar oarsman from competing with amateurs, even
tnougn lac might never have up 20 that time actually
rowcd race Tor nafi cash. In 1867 tho ST. John
crew, Of New Brunswick, entered at tho French
Partisan regsta mot the EngIisn one. held later on
They boat balldcrs and csrpcntcrs, the
afterward opposed kenforth's Tyne crew Tor rowing
IN international match. No one supposed
tnem 10 be amateurs; but, In compIaisance. they
allowed TO against the kngish amateur
crews, TO them from disappointment Carving
no coxswain white the English crows all bur-
eonod with one, they won pretty easily. But this
precedent eau hardly DO followed we shah soon
nDd English rcgattas overwhelmed with American
artisans. one OF the Ataiant crew. who rowod In
England In 1872 against the Ioadon Rowing Club aud
aiterwaru stIricd for The Diamond SOULS al Henley,
has now been thrown over as 4 professional even BY
American amateurs We may he prctSy taIe In ussum-
ing that who Is rcckoned out OF the psle
OF amateurs In America would not he NJ company Tor
amateurs 10 this country. But the converse Of the
proposition by means holds good. From the
periences OF English crews In 1876 at PhIladcpnia
- 10 clear that English regatta committees would
be dong injustice TO English amateurs "
they dia not scrvtinze carefully tho an,ece-
icrsd himself for competition The standard
In England should DO that OF England, and not that
OF America. In addition W the Coinmbia Collego
crew, tho coming OF winch announced IN the win-
ter there likely TO BIO other American crews over
this summer. Tine watkins Regatta Association"
are starting "A large rc2atta In May from winch 70
Icct representatives compete at aIi the principal
English regaftas this summer. also al Paris
regatta The Columbia are hardly iikeiy 10 DO
other than amateurs, such as wc should ourselves
recognize; but some OF the other competitors that
M ~ como over may probably require looking alter.
Toe Henley meet TINS week. aud u is under
stood that among other things under their consdera
lion will be this question Of American amateursnip
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dealing promptly aud iinpartiaIly with any case Of
Baspicious qualification which may come before them.
..rHE vAGABoND"
Mr. Gilbert, in Difference 70 tne emphatic ut,erance
Of the pox poput has remodclicd hts "Neef-do wcei"
who now appears us "rhe Vaga0ond,n but tue piece
In not prophescd n very long run. Tho original play
was received with dcrisivs laughter ana cynical
cheering and Mr. Gilbert accepted tho inevitable But
bo pinned his tai h TO his original Idea and has re-
snned OF course the conception OF goodfor-nothiug
fellow ruined by idcness ana carclessncss and re-
deemed love The burglar and fsrcal mag
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