Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20
SOME ART PARAGRAPHS.

SOME ART PARAGRAPHS.
The Missolonghi statue to Byron shows
the poet standing wrapped in mantle, a
roll in his left hand, and his right pointed
to the earth that he died in defending.
The statue is of Pentelic marble, with a
fine inscription on the base.
Foreigners were represented at the Salon
at Paris, according to the Monitenr dea
Arts, approximately, as follows: Ameri.
cans, ll9, of which &c were in the painting
section Belgians, 81; Italians, SO; En-.
glishmen, 50; Swiss, So; Spaniards, 80
Hollanders, 30; Russians, %; Austro.
Hungarians, IS; Swedes, &c; Poles, Is,
and Norwegians, b.
At the distribution of medals for works
of art at the Salon, the name of Manet,
the impressionist, was Kissed by his critics
and applauded by his friends. The jury
was composed of artists entirely, and 1t is
supposed that the younger members
worked so theoretically for Manet that he
was given a second class.
London has statue to Byron at last 1t
is in Hyde Park, finely placed. but no cere.
monies whatever accompanied the unvail-
ing. The death of Beaconsfield is said to
have interfered with formal unvailine,
although it is not apparent what conneo-
ton Byron had with the dead Premier.
The statue stands On pedestal furnished
by the Greeks.
Thomas M. Clark, of Providence, r. l.,
issues circular to the people of Newport
In behalf of monument to Bishop
Berkeley, which is to be erected in the
Cathedral of Cloyne. Nothing definite
has been decided on, but the suggestion is
that Newport, the temporary home in
America which he did much for, should
supply the sum needed for statue to sur
mount the monument.
The New York Etching Club proposes
to exhibit with the Water Color Society
during the coming winter. The fattering
reception of etchings by it's members at the
recent exhibition in London has encouraged
it to this step. There will be an illustrated
catalogue. The draughtsmen in black and
white belonging to the Salmagundi Club
have sent pictures. by invitation, to the
exhibition at Glasgow.
A writer in lie Mstsee Arttstigue has
taken the alarm concerning the progress
made by North Americans in the fine arts,
and reminds his readers that the Americans
possess seven-league boots. I" am
even willing to confess" continued this
frank Frank, "that it is not without Bit
ter regret that / see so many important
WORKS OF our artists cross the sea, probably
never to return, and go there to serve as
models Cor future rivals. talk as every
one does of the republic of art, but in my
heart / secretly pray that in that republic
we be always the first"
American tourists in England would do
well to examine, with view to purchase,
a certain picture by T. Collier at the Royal
Academy Exhibition. 1.-THE Last Voyage
of Henry Hudson" represents the naviga.
tor being set adrift in an open boat in the
polar seas, with his young son and few
sick sailors. Should the execution be in
any way adequate the picture could find no
better resting place than New York 1t
has been sore point with British artists
these many years that Americans buy
French, Italian and German pictures, but
very seldom Eoglish
1t is announced that the Graphic OF Lon
don is 10 have a representative with the
Marquis of Lorne on the latter's tour
through Manitoba and the Northwest.
Mr. Sydney Eall is the sketcher chosen.
He was with the suite of the Prince of
Wales in India, and served faithfully as an
artistic reporter for the Graphic during the
Franco German war. Considering the pro-
clivities to art Of the Princess Louise, the
latter would have been better companion
to her lone, lorn husband, the Governor
General. There is little doubt that the
Graphic would give nything to secure pic
lures from the pencil of daughter of the
Queen. The Graphic will have to do with
Sydney Hall, if for no better reason than
that the Princess does not like Canada.
A Mr.. Ware, lecturing in Boston on
Washington Allston, rates him in the
front rank as colorist "Mr. Allston
was great in many ways, but greatest here.
He was absolutely uDapproached in color !;
and it is to be observed that to excel in
color is to excel in by no means an inferior
department of art. Excepting only in the
purely intellectual power of the conception
and composition of those grand designs
which express the greatest thoughts of
genius, and which have filled the world
with works that never die. which have
lived for ages, and will live for ages to
come, in the admiration of successive gen.
erations, color, more than anything else,
proves an original mind, proclaims that
gift of nature which we describe by the
word genius-an excellence to be acquired
by no labor, no art, no teaching. by no
process of reason, no search after prin.
ciples. None can teach it to another !;
none can learn it from another. 1t is a
feeling, an instinct, a heaven given, heaven
born virtue; thing that God gives which
man cannot otherwise possess. 1t may be
appropriated, more or less remotely, by
effort, study, and imitation, but not
reached. We call it appropriately genius !;
it is nothing else"