The New York herald., 1879-08-11
ART NOTES.

Waltner. after yelssquez's three-quarters length
portrait of the Intanta Margarita, in the Louvre.
The second is Da yincis "Mona Lisa" etched by
Jacquemart The third is NJ. Chauvel's etching of
Corot's "The Pond" which is remarkably success
full. the fourth is etched by M Greux. after Theo-
dore Rousseaus famous picture. Coucher de soleil.
while the fifth is constabe's 'The Valley Farm
etched by M. Burnett Debanes.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy. the Gros-
venor Gallery and the Society of Painters in Water
Colors closed on the 4th Of this month.
The University of Edinburgh is very much elated
over Sir j. Watson GordonS bequsst for founding
chair Of the fine arts.
Signor Tito Paravicinis book on the Renaissance
in Lombxrdy is completed.
Corot's monument. which is 10 be ready in the
autumn. will be erected Vile dAvrsy. the place
which he has immortalized on canvas.
There is regular nest of artists at Cold Spring
Harbor, L. l.. among them w. Il. O'Donovan. the
sculptor. and Reinhardt the painter. who are pre-
.parng a magazine article together.
Mr.. John La Fargo came to towh for few days
last week. hired studio and began to work. but the
weather very that he wisely packed up
his paint box and returned to his Newport home.
Mr.. O'Donovan is going to England in October,
and will probably be gone for three years
Miss Ida Waugh. OF Philadelphia will have .
studio in New York next winter. Although she has
followed art as profession for several years Miss
Waugh intends to enroll herself among the pupils of
the Art Students League.
The Academys indignant an article in the Ne,o
Quarterly Magasine the Poetic Phase in English
Art When we read about "puny. maddlin Pyg
malion, his eyes distended with tears. his checks
hollow with fasting and melancholy his gaunt hands
trembling with sick desire says the academy. 1--WE
recognize the familiar exaggerations OF those who
I,axa ortad Ae
without far it is possible to judge from their
words, with any looking at them. 1t is
amusing to find the same writer. who speaks of Mr..
Burne-Jones really extraordinary inability to
the human countenance.' praising almost without
the work of that charming designer but very
far from perfect draughtsman. Mr. Walter Crane.
would certainly be himself the first to laugh at
praise bestowed in Aach connection. It is still
more amusing to find this writer solemnly think
ing it time to sound counterblast to the chorus
of critical praise with which the works of Mr..
Burne-Jones have been received, when the truth is
that by majority Of newspaper critics those works
praise but of jeers and that the better instructed
writer's who their merit have had heavy uphill
task to procure for them any reasonable recognition
at ALL
The sculptural decorations of the Hotel de Vile in
Paris will cost 19l. .50M
Mr. Burne-Jones has never sent a picture for ex-
hibition Mt the Royal Academy. BY the way this
artist has just had piano made for him according
to his own design. 1t is very simple, with square
tapering legs ending in small castors. The color is
pure leaf green through which the grain of the oak
Mr.. r. G. Woodville, arising young English painter,
is engaged upon q large picture of the late Prince
Louis Napoleon in Zululand. The Prince is repre-
sented on horseback at the head of q recommending
party half turning in the saddle field glass in hand,
and scanning the surrounding country. An escort
of the Seventeenth lancers is seen in the middle
distance
Mr.. W. E. A. Axon has reprinted from a volume of
the papers OF the Manchester Literary Club "Bibli
Opraphical Biography OF Mr.. Ruskin.
Miss Morse. OF Boston. is sketchng III Venice.
Members of the Society of American Artists abroad
vending their way toward the Munich 1nterna-
tional Exhibition.
Alsace and Lorraine we're well represented in the
Paris Salon this year. writer reviewing the Salon
in Alsatian journal reckons that they amounted
to sixty. and among these are some OF the most
distinguished names III art OF which France can
boast such Henner, Gustave Dore, F. Ehrmann,
c. Bernier Ulmann. of the Lorrainers and Bastien-
Lepage, Leon Barillot, Feyen-Perrin, Aug Flameng,
Henri Levy Others known in England as well as
France. or the Msatians.
The Administration of Fine Arts in Paris are about
to have casts taken OF all the Iallo-Roman monu-
ments and other antiquities of this period that have
beer found in France and are at present preserved
Rosa Bonheur dresses in semi masculine costume
in her studio. but Mile Bernhardt, who never does
things by halves. "sculrs" IN trousers.
In laying the foundations of bank building in
London. adjoining the Temple Bar. the workinen
have discovered series of Gothic arches in stone
springing from circular columns the OF which
and the floor area now revealed to view are upward
of twenty feet below the street level of the Strand
and Fleet street The arches at right angles. and
seem to have belonged to crypt under some eccle-
siastcal edfce.
articles the principles of Decoration Applied to
Buildings to the last weekly part of L'Art.
covered rummed beneath the cover Of MS. in the
town library at Lhneberg. The first of these repre-
sents company of twelve women and two fools
dressed in the costume prevalent in the middle of
the fifteenth century. The other plate is a round
copy of plate by tho master e. s.. described by
Passavant and Bartsch.
The French water color exhibition is to be re-
opened in November.
Paris has finally agreed to the national teaching of
drawing There are to be established 153 schools for
boys 3S for girls. ~ classes tor adults schools for
men and for women Besides these classes the
city also proposes to open lectures on art.
writer III the August Aacmittan. Rev. j. Cave
Browne. describes at length the portrait gallery of
l. mbeth Palace, which boasts Holbein, q Vandyke.
possibly Kneeler. a Hogarth and a Sir Joshua.
The catalogue of the Ladies' Loan Exhibition held
shows that that old town is possessed of some very
fine specimens of bric-a-brac. Bonaparte furniture
from Bordentown and a copy of the first issue of
the HERALD and sofa belonging to Marie Antoi-
nette among the relies.
a correspondent sends the following interesting
communication - Scibner S .AdgasiRe for August con-
tans well written aud very interesting article upon
Whistler. the artist but in reading 1t notice that
the writer makes in regard to him which
has frequently been made by Others and that is in
regard to his birthplace. This famous artist Is
native American born in the town of Lowell. Mass.
His father the celebrated engineer Major George
W. Whistler. who. aided by his brother-in-law, Cen
eral William Mcneil. planned and carried into
this country. In ls43 the Emperor Nicholas sent for
Major Whistler in order that he might lay out the
great road between Moscow and the capital He then
left tor Russia with his family. of which James
tho third son. Major Whistler died after residence
of seven years in ST. Petersburg. He had
during that time had from the Emperor the highest
marks OF his esteem and regard; indeed he was the
only American citizen who sat without restraint
formality in the presence of that great autocrat
After the death OF Major Whistler hs widow. with
her two sons came again to her home ia this coun-
try His father name and fame aud the influence Of
h,s NM Ia JnSeD eaSlly
James cadetship at West Point; but ne soon found
that u life In the army one To which he was
least suited and at his urgent request he was allowed
to abandon the art of war TO pursue the one tor
which his natural talent had destined him from his
earliest childhood. Major Whistler was a thorough
and true Anne in every thought and act and the
country which he loved and served so faithfully
must feel proud to claim as her own his distin-
guishcd son..
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