National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-05
ART ATTRACTIONS.

Mr.. Isaac Walkers pictures brought
! SIS, 900 at auction.
Gabriel Mux's is being " st. Cecilia"
| exhibited in Boston 1888
| &C. Eichbaum, ofSt Louis, has painted
PickWick and Sam Weller.
"a Surveying Party" a picture by
| SchTeyer, has been sold for s., $50.
The pictures got at the San Donati sale,
in Florence, for the Boston Art Museum have been
placed in that institution.
Leon Bonnat has been elected to a seat
in the French Academy of Fine Arts in the place
of his master, the late Leon Cogniet
The premium of L'Art for 1881 is an
etching eighteen and half by fifteen inches, by
Champollion, of Casanovas 4" Tn Coin dams lie Jar
dina Irritation of Capuchin and young
Spanish girl
A St. Louis paper says that there is a
genuine signed NIurillo in that city, which is one
of the spoilS of the Mexican war. The subject is
"Saint Thomas d'Aquina Receiving the Inspira-
of the Holy Ghost" ,E.
| American artists have been invited by
D. Iothrop Co to compete for prizes of the value
of 81 500 for book-cover designs, colOred fronts
pieces and magazine illustrations in black and
white and in colors. ....-
The New York Society Of Decorative
Art will open its first annual competition at the
American Art Gallery, on Madison Square, in May.
The society gives 81 900 in prizes, individual mem
| bers 800 and the AIt Interchange s25.
W. A. Bates, of New York; E. Dewson,
of Boston; T J. Gould, and F. W. Angill, of Proyi
dence, were awarded the prizes offered by the
American Arcbitect for an entrance hall of small
hotel in country town, frequented by the highest
| classes of society"
| The fifty-second annual exhibition of
| the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts will be
| opened in Philadelphia on Monday, the 4th of
April and Will continue until Monday the S0th of
May Contributions will be received at the Acad-
envy from Monday, the l4th of March, till Sstur-
| day, the 18th of the same month.
The National Library of Paris has been
| enriched by the purchase of miniature of Jean
Fouuuet. 1t belonged originally to the celebrated
Liyre d'Heures, made for Etienne Chevalier, by
Feuerfet The miniature represents st. Anne and
her three children and the posterity of these chill
! dren. It is an important link in the history of
French art. -=--.--
Young Mr.. Preston Powers, the son of
| Hiram Powers was sculptor from babyhood. He
used to play about his fathers studio and dabble
| in the clay He modelled small figures, and one
day made Madonna. For this man paid his
father a dollar, and the small artist had it for
pocket money. Young Mr.. Powers is now engaged
upon O figure of Maud Muller"
A publishing house in Berlin and Lon
don is about to issue, simultaneously in English
and German, a series of volumes illustrating the
ancient Quichua- Aymara culture of Peru as it ex-
isted at the time of the Spanish invasion The
work will consist Of chrome photographic engrav-
ings giving fac SMILES, either in natural or re-
duced size, of every object associated with the
ancient civilization of the Ineas The hrst volume
is devoted to the Metropolis Of Ancon, the
finds" in which are said TO be OF extraoruihary
orcFaaolooical interest, illustrating in the most
vivid manner every aspect of the social and do
,nestic life of the ancient Peruyians: