The Portland daily press., 1883-08-01
Art and Artists.

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in the United States.
Minister Lowell will unveil bust of
Fielding at Taunton, England, August IA.
Pope Leo XIII. has sent a painting from
the Vatican as a gift 10 the Detroit Art As
ISOLATION.
A new bust of Lincoln, said to be unusu-
ally life-like, is on exhibition in Chicago 1t
is the work of r. II. Park.
Mr.. Wilson. the Washington artist, has
studio at Lake George, where he is at work
on portrait of President Arthur.
Auber, the composer, author of Ezra D-
avolo,'' has just been honored by statue,
erected by the city of Caen, in Normandy.
An entire Athene, clothed, with red sharp
pointed slippers, has just been found among
the remains of the older Part enon.
The title of Mr.. B. E. WoolFs new comic
opera, announced for production at the Bos-
ton Museum next season, is s'Elfinetta; or,
The Last of the Fairies.o
Mr.. Leopold Flameng has finally repro
duced as an etching the splendid portrait of
Darwin painted for the Linn@an Society by
John Collier.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt had made for her,
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large cameo portrait of her father, the late
Peter Cooper. 1t is oval, about two inches
/. in diameter, and was made by the artist
Zoellner.
Sculptor DIN L. Warner of New York,
son of Rev. Levi Warner of Westmins ter.
Mass, has finished in clay his statue of Gov.
Buckingham for the State capitol of Con-
necticut. 1t will be finished in bronze dur
ing the fall
The late Martin Millmore of Boston, the
well known sculptor, left an estate valued at
over 100000 He had often Gpoken of de-
sire to found an art school and there is an
expectation that his will may contain some
such provision.
The works of Wagner have become classic
in Paris since the composers death, says a
French critic, and are listened to With de-
voUt and enthusiastic reverence. Three or
chestras have given Wagner concerts, and
one of them-M. Lamoureux' s-showed rare
intelligence in the execution of the selec-
tions from Lohengrin, Parsifal, and the
Meistersinger.
The great painting of solver Cromwell's
Visit to John Milton" by the American ar
list David Neal, is pronounced by the CORE
spondent of The Boston Transcript to be
decidedly the most important work. at the
Exhibition of Fine Arts at Munich.
The return home of Herbert Herkomer,
the portrait painter, was saddened by the
news that his wife had died June 6, at vi
emma, where she had remained under ply
sician's care, for a lingering malady, during
her husbands absence in America.
The Vienna Conservatory is making ar
rangements for great Mozart festival next
autumn. Many great musicians will coop
crate, among them RubensteiD. The pro-
ceeds are to be devoted to the projected Mo-
zara monument
Dissatisfaction is expressed in England at
the Queens selection of ANGEL, the Wen
nese, to paint her portrait for birthday
gift to Kaiser Wilhelm. 1t is thought that
she should have chosen native English
artist
Miss Mary B. Randolph, granddaughter
of Thomas Jefferson, has presented the cor
ner stones of the old jefferson monument at
Charlottesville, Va, to the Missouri Univer-
sity at Columbia Upon them will be erect
ed monument to Jefferson that will be un-
yeilea on July 4, 1884.
The conductorship Of the London Phil
harmonic Concerts for the next season was
offered to Herr Richter, but his engagements
at Vienna precluled him from accepting the
post. The directors contemplate having
new conductor for each concert. The names
of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Messrs. Barnett,
Cowen and Stanford are mentioned.
A weIl-known sculptor while leaving the
ball of New York clubhouse had his at
tention called to sleek bust of dstin |
guished actor which stood near the princi- |
pal entrance. "fhat's fine portrait" re- |
marked his friend, admiringly. ga fine |
likeness, possibly" replied the artist, "but |
not portrait. A portrait is an interpreta-
ton of character"
In conversation with visitor, some time |
ago, Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour ex- |!
pressed his surprise and regret that in none |
of the public commemorative monuments in |
this country has the stalwart figure of the |
Indian appeared with any prominence. The |
Ex-Governor has particularly requested that |
the negligence shall not be repeated In the |
monument to be erected on the battlefield |
of Oriskany. near Utica.
Somebody says it is the ambition of mod
ern French composers to unite in one work
the simplicity of the older style of melody,
the glitter of Italian forid music, the real
ism of modern recitative, and the instrument
tation of Berlioz and Wagner. But another,
a German, declares that the Parlsians show
marked preference for descriptive music,
and thinks that of Wagner's works "The
Flying Dulchman' or "Tannhauser' would
be more sure of success than "Lohengrin."
The question of the best method of cloth
ing the human body so as 10 make 1t resem-
bic marble statue is of some interest occa-
sionally TO managers of private theatrcas.
Persons who have never tried the use of un-
bleached muslin will be surprised to see how
successfully it accomplishes the end when
under the influence of gaslight. 1t hangs in
graceful folds, and its tone is exquisitey
soft and mellow. Other fabrics, much more
expensive, may be made available. but I'M
bleached muslin is at the same time the
cheapest and the most Elusive. A lady of
New York who recently appeared at a pri-
vate theatrical entertainment in the part of
a marble statue, dressed in unbIeached mus