Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-11
ART NOTES.

It is reported that tie the late William VI.
Hunts large painting OF Niagara Falls has
been sold In Boston for $4,000.
-Ehu vedder. the painter. aud Daniel C.
French the sculptor. formerly of this city. were
recently elected memSiers of the Society OF
| American Artists.
-Thlrty-one Americans are registered as
students at the Academy Of Arts in Munich.
Only the Bavarians and PrussaIs outaumber
them.
The death is announced of Anatole vely. the
weil-known French genre painter. who has been
an exhibitor in the Salon for twenty years OBJ
tanning third-class medal in 1874. and one of
| the second-class in 1880 MIR. Nely was the
painter Of 1.-The Talking Well" one of the best
! known and most popular of the minor pictures
| in the Corcoran Gallery.
A new artistic organization has been formed
in Paris-a Society Of Animal Painters
Charles Jacque is the president and ainsng the
well-known names upon its list of members are
| those of Van Marcke. Jean Goubie and the Bon
heurs. The first exhibition of the Society will
be held during the coming spring, little in
advance of the Salon.
Mr.. Max Weyl has taken and will shortly
occupy studio i'm Vernon Row.-a move which,
| it may be remarked, will doubtless prove to bel
good thing both for Mr.. Weyl himself and for
the locality he has chosen. 1t is already the
abiding place Of several artists who are ut once
his warm personal friends and great admirers
of his work.
Mr.. William Carl Brown who has long oc-
| cupied a studio in Vernon Row, has changed
his location. He is now to be found in the
building one door east of his former Quauaers
| During his absence last summer Mr. Brown
made a number of landscape sketches and
studies in North Carolina, from which he hopes
to produce some finished paintings at no distant
day.
| Mr.. Thomas Moran will send to the ROYAL
! Academy Exhibition in London the coming
spring painting called 1.-The Cliffs of the Upper
Colorado 1t will be large aud striking can
vas. calculated both by its subject and treat
ment to display to the best advantage the pic
tOrial qualities of Mr.. Moran's STYLE Mr.
| Moran will also furnish, by invitation. some
etchings for Mr.. Hamertons Portfolio during
| the current year.
A couple Of oil paintings in the window of
| Morrison's bookstore, sent home by young Mr..
Birney from Munich, where he IS now prosecuting
| his art studies show very marked improvement
IN that gentleman work. Their color is not all
| that could be desired. but whether this be the
fault of the artist or his subject cannot be de-
| termined. In drawing and treatment. however
they evince vigor and breadth of style which
promise. with careful training, most excellent
results in future.
the announcementiH New York paper that a
portrait by Sir Peter Lely was lately found in
dirt-obscured condition. and bought for a song.
| in one of our old shops. This sort of thing has
been going on for years at the national capital
Old masters representing any desired period or
school have always happened TO come to the
surface just at the right time and in lots to suit:
and there is no danger that the supply will fail
so long as any demand for them exists As
things go, the find of a Lely is quite insignifi-
cant affair. We rather wonder that it wasn't a
Rembrandt or a Titan.
Out of six drawings sent by Mr. W. H.
| Holmes, OF this city, TO the winter Water Color
Exhibition, now open at the Academy of Design.
! no less than five were accepted by the commit
| tee on selection and assigned to good positions
When the reader is informed that out of the
| whole number Of pictures sent IN only about
| tWo-htthS were accepted. the flatterng compli-
ment paid to Mr. Holmes talents 10y the action
| OF the committee will be understood. For
gentleman who classes himself as an amateur
only the result may be considered a most arati-
! lying one. but to his friends familiar with the
quality of his work it will not be surprising
Among other etchngs on the walls of the
Water Color Exhibition now open i'm the New
! York Academy of Design, those contributed BY
Mr.. E. H. Miller. Of this city. have been very
favoraby received by critics and connoisseurs.
| Not this alone, but we learn that nearly all he
sent have been sold at the prices fixed, and so
| readily. furthermore. as to leave no doubt that
they would have brought considerably larger
figures than We're asked Mr.. Miller it will be
remembered had equally gratifying success at
the exhibition in Boston year SO ago and
since that time he has added largely to the num-
Der of his subjects as we'll as greatly improy ed
! in the quality of his work.
- Mr.. Ross Turner is still in Rome where he
is busily engaged on work which he expects to
send or bring home with him i'm the spring, and
for the greater part of which he has positive or
! conditional commissions. IL the windows of
! Chapman's bookstore may be seen a couple of
| his water-colOr drawings representing Venetian
scenery, lately received. Like some of Mr.
Turner's other later pictures, these are quite
taking at first sight. but they are too sketchy
and careless in treatment to be up to the standard
of his best work They indicate a desire to
produce popular and snowy effects rather than
a purpose TO cOnscientiOusly interpret nature
One OF them, in fact, resembles northern winter
scene more than Venetian lagoon. Mr.. Turner
can and Ought to do better work than some he
has lately sent home
| - At the recent meeting of the Trustees of
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Dr. ]. M. Toner. of
this city, presented to that institution an ex-
quiste bronze medal of Benjamin West. Presi-
dent OF the Royal Academy, prepared by that
body. 1t has on its face fine profile bust por-
trait OF West, in strong relief and around it
Benjamin West. President of the Royal Acad-
envy. 1915" On the reverse the names of
forty persons, ana surrounding them the words
Respectfully to perpetuate the names of those
who. in 1911, subscribed to purchase the picture
OF Christ in the Temple for the Gallery Of the
British Institution" In the center of the names
are the words Under the Regency" and around
| the edge presented by Mr.. West to the Right
Hon. Earl Spencer, 1916" For this rare gift Dr.
Toner has received vote of thanks from the
| Trustees. He purchased the medal during his
recent visit to Europe.
AT Barlows may be seen two or three char
acteristic examples of the work of Mr. NJ j.
Heade, which have attracted much and deserved
attention. Mr.. Heade has recently taken a
studio i'm Corcoran Building. and, while he does
! not expect to find here a market for all he is
able to produce. he has yet received such
| encouragement since his arrival as will probably
! result in permanently establishing himself in
| Washington, which he regards Of all Cities
| as the most delightful for residence in the
United States. Mr.. Heade paints nearly all
subjects, bat those which the public seems to
prefer. and in which he also greatly excels. are
representations of tropical scenery birds and
| flowers and also long low reaches of salt marsh