Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-12
ART NOTES.

IL. 1883-DOUBLE SHEET
ART NOTES.
The Vienna Museum has acquired the cele-
brated statue of Hans Vischer, which was cast
at Nuremberg in 1852.
| - Miss Bertha Won Hlllern, the artist ex-pe-
| destrian, has started on a sketching tour along
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
At the Paris Salon this year no less than
sixty lady artists are represented. This is a
marked increase on former years, and their work
is also said to be better than heretofore
| - Mr. Daniel Huntington, who is now in Al
giers, was this week reelected president Of the
National Academy Of Design. He has very ac-
ceptably filed the position for many years.
We hear from Boston that Ross Turner ex-
poets to leave that city about May %. to spend
| a month In Maine. He sails for Europe on the
| last of June, and will be in Venice for the most
| Of the time till his return In November.
- Seeing the representations OF the statue Of
Lord Beaconsfeld, lately unveiled in London. as
furnished by the English illustrated papers,
| tends to reconcile the American mind with q
good deal that we have to bear in the way Of
| bad sculpture in this country.
- Mr.. E. F. Andrews expects to sail for Eu-
rope on the 9th of June. accompanied by Mrs.
Andrews, and to be absent until about the mid
die Of October. They intend to go out and re-
| turn with Capt. Neynaber, ofthe North German
Lloyd line. with whom they have crossed the
ocean many times.
= Ten models were last week submitted to and
examined by the committee Of selection for the
| statue of Theodore Parker, proposed to be
| erected in Boston. So large collection pre-
| sented of course considerable variety, but none
of the designs sent in were considered salts
factory. and still others are invited.
- The American artists in Paris have elected
the following Juryto select works for the annual
| exhibition to be held next fall, Of the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts: Charles Sprague
| Pearce. Alexander Harrison, F. A. .Brdgman,
| John S. Sargent. E. L. Weeks, F. M. Boggs and
Gaines R. Donoh0 d. B. knight and c. 8.
Reinhart were elected supplementary jurors.
The art sensation In New York for the
present week has been the sale, for $4,000. of
an oil painting by Rosa Bonheur, which cost its
| owner ZOO. The works Of this famous artist
| may be less In demand and command smaller
prices than formerly but the shrinkage of 80 per
| cent in this particular case cannot be accepted
| az conclusive evidence on that point, since the
sale appears to have been very quietly managed
affair between two Wall street SPECTATORS, and
apparently for the purpose Of raising money
without attracting attention. The seller was
Mr.. James R. Keene, the buyer Mr.. Jay Gould.
The Washington Art Club held its annual
| election OF officers last Monday evening, with
| the following result:
|, President-W. W. Corcoran
Vice President, r. N. Brooke
Sec,etdvy,-J. NJ. March.
Treasurer, w. G. Newton.
Custodian F. ]. Colburn.
Executive Conmistee, e. F. Andrews, Winnie
Ream Hoxie, s. H. Kaufman, E. II. Miller,
Max Weyl. "
Committee on Art School-R- n. Brooke,
Max Weyl, w. G. Newton, Helen Colburn, G.
Adele Fassett.
- The lfty-elghth spring exhibition of the
National Academy Of Design closes this evening,
with fair financial results, though the receipts
fall lttle'unde those of last year. There were
large number Of good and representative
works shown by men who never fall below q
not very high but yet very credtable standard,
though the exhibition contained nothing partic-
ularly brilliant or striking; and while there WAS
little to be enthusiastic over, there was on the
| other hand a good deal to be satisfied WITH
| unless great advance be demanded. This was
not apparent. The most progress shown is in
the direction Of genre painting field in which
American artists a. a rule have heretofore
shown very little proficiency. Some Of the ex-
| amples shown in this line were very creditable.
- In referring the other day to the portrait Of
Chief Justice Marshall, on view at Brentano's,
an error was madein aseribing the work. through
a momentary confusion of names. to Peale the
younger, instead of Suly the younger by whom
/ it was painted. Although a mistake in names
as printed. it could not be misleading. since the
| subject OF the painting and its merits as work
OF art constitute its chief attraction, rather than
the name of the artist; and both the style Of the
work and the statement Of its owner would
correct the typographical error. 1t may how
ever, be added here that the portrait in ques-
ton was painted from lite, in Richmond, in
1873, by Mr.. Robert Sully, the nephew and pu-
pill of Thomas Snlly, the celebrated historical
and portrait painter, and was pronounced BY
those familiar with its subject most faithful
likeness as well as a meritorous work Of art.
- Shortly after DR.. ]. NJ. Toner, OF this city,
gave his extensive and valuable collection of
medical books to the Congressional Library for
the use of the public year or so ago. the joint
committee on the Library conceived the idea
that it would be graceful and proper act on
the part OF the government to secure memorial
portrait of the donor. to be added to the other
works OF art belonging to or connected with
that institution. Subsequently 1t was thought
that bust would be more appropriate for the
purpose all things considered, than painting
ana, thereupOn, measures were taken and cor
respondence was entered upon to carry the pro-
iect into effect These measures have been con-
summated, and the commission to execute the
bust has been given to Mr.. ]. Q. A. Ward. the
well-known sculptor who will. in few days. en-
ter upon the work of modelling the head. which
Will be put In marble at as early date as practi-
cable. fine piece of sculpture is expected
The subject is most excellent one FOR a work OF
the kind, and in the hands Of so accomplished
and successful an artist as Mr.. Ward failure
may be regarded if not impossible as Mt least
extremely improbable. DR.. Toner viii 60 to New
York next week, and remain there for two weeks
or more, in order to give the necessary sittings
Funeral Reforms.
The cause Of public health demands. says the
Chicago Tribune, some radical reforms in burial
usages. The first step should be taken by the
companies owning or controlling cemeteries,
and an excellent model is furnished by the prin-
cipal cemetery in Utica NY. which is provided
with two capacious chapels. One Is of stone.
where funeral services are held i'm summer and
the other Of iron and glass. where they are
held during the rest of the year. The
chapel is described as sort of con-
servatory. full of tropical verdure, the
funeral train passes through a covered car
riageway, and the services are conducted in
light and warmth, among trailing vines and
blooming shrubs. At the conclusion of the ser
vices the corpse is surrendered to keepers. who
beStOW it in a yault to await interment in the