Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-19
ART NOTES,

The next loan exhibition at the Metropol,-
tan Museum OF Art New York CITY. win oman
on or about the 1st OF May.
1t Is announced that Mr. Millais is going 70
paint portrait OF Lord Beaconsfeld. 70 form
companion picture to his successful portraits of
Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Bright. painted some
time ago. It is to be engraved, we believe.
ALREADY more than thirteen hundred pic
lures Lave been received for the Spring Exhibit
ton OF the New York Academy of Design, which
opens on Monday. ami 1t is believed that IN
point OF interest and merit the display OF this
year will surpass that of any former season.
THE Pastoral VISIT Mr.. Brooke's fine
painting, to which reference was made In this
column last Saturday, has been placed on ex-
hibition In the Corcoran Gallery. where it hangs
III the east room. IL appears 10 better ad
vantage there than In the artists studio, and
attracts much and favorable attention.
Karl Gerhardt is another young sculptor
who starts for Europe TO obtain thorough
training in his art. He was lately draughts.
man in Hartford for irm OF manufacturers.
and through the encouragement and assistance
OF Charles Dudley Warner. mark Twain, :" and
the sculptors Ward and St Gaudens has made
his first move toward fame or failure.
- In the death of Nj. Hughes Merle, which
occurred in Paris, on the 10th inst. modern
French art has sustained very serious loss.
He stood among the best genre painters OF the
present time, and his works though not OF the
highest class were generally meritorious and
popular tha number OF his pictures are Owned
and Vanderbilt OF New York. and Mr.. Walters
OF baltimore possessing good examples. Nj.
Merle was fifty eight years old at the time OF
his death.
"A reception was given to Mr.. Frederick
a. Bfidgman, the Well known artist. by the
Brooklyn Art Club On Thursday evening. MIR.
Bridgman began his art studies while a resident
or Brooklyn, and ft was mainly through the
influence and early encouragement OF some of
her citizens that he was enabled to pursue them
abroad. The compliment was therefore doubly
interesting and enjoyable to all concerned
farewell reception is also to be given him by the
artists Of New York next Thursday evening,
and he will sail for Europe on Saturday, taking
with him some TWO hundred of the paintings
studies and sketches lately on exhibition In New
York.
"A collection OF selected paintings by the
late VIM. NJ. Hunt, Of Boston, is now on exhi-
oitlon In one OF the Bond street galleries OF
LONDON, out they do not create the favorable I'M
preston there which his admirers thought they
would. Referring to the exhibit, The 4thp9aP-
I'm, which Is usually regarded as the highest
English authority on art and literature says:
Excepting few portraits In Oil, few or none
OF the 1l9 examples are up to the level of
fourthrate current French Pointing. The
greater part OF the landscapes are confusion
Itself" We are curious to see what Boston
which takes ITS cue so largely from England,
VIII say to this.
The latest art sensation In Paris Is the
portrait OF the Prince of Wales by Bastien lie
Page, whose picture OF Joan ofArc NOW owned
In this country made so great sensation at
the Salon last summer. Ii is, however, conSid-
cred as great failure as that picture was pro-
nounced success, The artist has represented
the most modern of European princes In suit
OF nondescript 10th century costumes, made up
OF doublet OF cloth OF gold, with huge pulled
sleeves. SuTmounted by lace ruff. But Ia
addition to these incopgruities, the likeness is
pronounced positively bad. Instead OF painting
handsome Stalwart figure, with acountenance
beamiDg With health and good humor, It is said
that "the artist has portrayed sickIy-looking
ow-bearded parsonage, with high, peaked
In the last stages OF softening of the brain.
The whole figure sinks into the background
which is hay view of boats and water and
tique tapestry. but which all the critics up to
the present time have mistaken for view Of
the Thames and of old London"
The most important picture sale OF the
year, and one of the most important for many
years past, was that of the collection OF Mr.
John W. Wilson. an English resident OF Paris
Tuesday and Wednesday last The total pro-
ceeds OF the sale amounted to s4O6,4 1876. The
paintings which touched five figures, and the
prices brought by them. were as follows: Por-
falt OF Man, by Rembrandt, $40, 900; The
Angelus, by Mlllet, S32 600; two Portraits, by
Franz Halls, $4,000 and Sl5,6O0, respectively; a
IoitIdlt vi ulIuSell, DTaNlnB 1fOm Nature, by
Cuyp, Sid, 600; Portrait, by Helbein, SIS, 800
Although not bringing the highest price, the
greatest struggle Of the sale was over Millet's
AngeluS,-the work Of man who only ten
years before his death nearly starved TO death
Tor want OF patronage. For this two competl-
tors. M. Defoer and IL. Secretan. had given
broker an Unlimited order as against any other
bidder who might appear, and so determined
was each to have 1t that they agreed to CON-
promise the matter by drawing lots for the
right TO pay for and possess the prize after it
had hoo lax-r
ment was carried out, and NJ. Secretan became
the happy owner. Nearly all the best pictures
Of the lot remain in Paris, and few or none of
them were bought for England or the United
States