The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
ART AND ARTISTS.

THE portrait of the late Governor Stephens of
Georgia, for the Representative Chamber will be
painted by Mrs. ]. r. Gregory.
FRANK RUSSELL GREEN OF Chicago, has painted a
large death OF Juliet" in which the Juliet is
Miss Mather, the actress, and the Romeo is Sal
vini
A LONDON man who owns a portrait of Washing
ton and a sword once used by the Father of his
Country, sends a request for piece OF timber
from Mount Vernon with which to make frame
or case for the relics,
MIR. BLAsHFIELD has painted for the opera singer,
Miss Cary decorative work in several panels con-
tanning figures from various operas in which she
has been popular favorite ia Fayorta," I'll
Trovatore." Aida" Faust and "Lohengrin''
yield male and female characters.
THE Art Institute OF Chicago will buy from the
Exposition in that city Les Amateurs by Alex
ander Harrison. 1t shown at the last Salon in
Paris and costs $1,000 Last year the institute
bought for the same price the ''Beheading of JohR
the Baptist" by Charles Sprague Pearce.
PEINcEss LOUISE has given to the National Gal
lery of Canada a large and well-executed copy of
the famous painting of the death of General Wolfe
They fly Who fly? The enemy. Then die
happy"-by Benjamin West. The original belongs
to the Duke of Westminster and is in his Cheshire
Gallery at Eaton.
Four very ancient pictures OF saints, worked on
velvet, have been sold at Ersindjan, Asiatic Tur-
key. 10 a French archeologist by member Of the
| celebrated Armenian Monastery at that place. The
price was 11f, 1t appears that he had no right to
dispose OF them. and that they are priceless. The
vandal who so disgraced his Monastery is named
| Karabet Kurdian. The pictures are said to be now
in Europe and little hope is entertained of their
recovery.
THE statute to Lafayette at lie Puy is the first
erected to him In France. 1t is bronze. He stands
dressed in the uniform OF the Garde Rationale
! with his chapeau in his left hand and holding up
in his right the tri-eolor cockade which denoted by
its three colors the Orleanists. Bourbons and Re-
publicans. In front, the pedestal, is simple,
"A Lafayette " and underneath the sentence, "Je
vous apporte une cocarde qui fera lie tour du
monde" and the date: Il Juliet. 1859. On the
right of the pedestal is Independence Americana
l777-17s2."
SIR RICHARD WOOD, at one time British Consul
General in Tunis. has given TO the National
Museum of Washington the large mosaic lion
WHICH was at the Centennial in the Tuasisn De
partment. Owing to the laws of Tunis IL wGs
necessary to remove the mosaic without tn,
knowledge OF the authorities, and picturesque
tale is tod OF the arrival of an Arab chief at the
residence of Sir Richard at midnight followed by
men bearing the mosaic on their shoulders. 1t i
said to have been looted from a temple OF Astarte
in or near Old Carthage
MORSE, the electrician, was a portrait painter o
some note before he took 10 inventing and wa
painting the likeness Of Lafayette when the deatl
of Mrs Morse occurred. His famous sitter wrot,
him the following letter of condolences:
February IL. 1925
have feared to intrude upon you. my dear sir
but want 10 tell you how deeply sympathize il
your grief. grief of which nobody can better thar
me appreciate the loved feelings. You will hea
from me as soon as l find myself again near you t;
finish the work you have so well begun. Aecep
my ahectona. C and mournful sentiments.
LAFAYETTE