Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-10
ART MOTIFS.

Michael Angeles picture, "The Virgin
of the Lectern," has been sold by Morris
Moore to Prince Lichtenstein, and is now
in Vienna. There are in existence but
four pictures by the great master, and but
two which are finished compositions and of
indisputable authority. The madonna
of the Lectern is, perhaps, the finest of
the four.
At Florence, Professor Consani has fin
ished marble g Susannah," which is un-
classical in subject and extremely refined
aud pure in style. Longworth Powers, son
of the late Hiram Powers, is at work upon
his first statue, "Hero Awaiting Lean
der" The maid is seated on rock, hold
ing torch and gazing seaward. The pose
is good, but the work is not far enough ad-
vanced to be discussed with assurance.
The resolution in favor of the free entry
of works of art, which originated with the
Society OF American Artists, was passed
by the Boston Art Club at its December
meeting, and by the Board of Directors of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The latter body, however, amended the
resolution by inserting the word ''original"
before sworks of art. The Carolina Art
Association, of Charleston, s. c., mas also
memorialized Congress to the same effect.
During the last SIX years the German
Government has devoted much money TO
excavations in Olympia, between Patras
and Pyrgos, under the direction of Pro-
lessor Curtius and Mr.. Adler, the Berlin
architect. After long consideration it has
been decided to build museum in Olym-
pia for the reception of the antiquities, in
stead of removing them to Athens,
and Professor Ziller, already known from
his connection with Dr. Sehliemann's pala-
tial residence and the Academy of Science
in Athens, has selected a site and prepared
a plan for the building toward the con.
structicn of which rich Greek named
Syngros has given S40,0
A little shrine, with statuettes in bronze
of Mercury, Hercules, Apollo, Esculapius
and two Lares, and with the bronze lamp
still hanging in its proper place, has been
unearthed at Pompeii. At Rome frag-
ment of Egyptian sculpture-in basalt-
has been discovered, together with poly
chromatic mosaic, of scene connected
with the yearly rise of the Nile. At Paris,
in the QUARTER du Temple, the demolition
of an old house has resulted in the discov-
cry of pot of old coins, valued at fl2,-
600; of wood carvings and frescoes
worth "a 900 and of leaden roof valued
at "a 600 more. The greatest find of all,
however, mas been made at Poitiers, where
Able De la Croix and NJ. Lsch, Inspector
des Monuments Historiques, have brought
to light a whole Gallo Roman city, with
streets, houses and taverns; theater
with stage some ninety meters wide an
immense thermal establishment, complete
to its very flags; temple, measuring
hundred and twenty meters in length, and
with facade seventy meters wide and a
multitude of statu IS "de meilleur STYLE"
and of articles in bronze and pottery and
iron. M. Lisch has recommended the Gov.
eminent to purchase the discovery as it
stands, and the Commission DIES Monuments
Historiques has decided to support his
recommendation. Art Magazine.
The danger of losing Bartholdi's statue
of Liberty, which seemed to threaten New
York, has been averted. Vigorous steps to
secure the funds for the pedestal have been
taken by the committee, and the enthusi-
asm shown gives promise that the $780,
coo needed will soon be Forthcoming. The
members of the committee promise to sup.
ply one fifth of the cost. The contract for
the statue of Washington, to be erected on
the steps of the Sub Treasury, on Wall
street, New York, was given to j. @ A.
Ward some months ago, and he assures
the committee that it will be ready in time
for the unwilling to take place November
%, 1884, as part of the centennial celebra.
tion of the evacuation of New York City.
A bronze statue of Lafayette, by j. @ a.
Ward, the gift of John Purple Howard, is
to be placed in the grounds of the Univer-
sity of Vermont, az Burlington. A statue
of John Bridge, one of the earliest settlers
of Cambridge, Mass, erected at the ex-
pense of Samuel ]. Bridge, one of his de-
scendants, was unveiled in that city on
November 2Sth. It was begun by the late
Thomas r. Gould, and finished after his
death by his son. Marshall S. Gould. An
other competition has come to grief. The
trustees under the will of the late Eli
Bates have rejected all the designs for the
Lincoln monument to be erected in Chi.
cago, and new designs will be invited.
j. Morgan Slade, of New York, young
architect of growing reputation, died sud.
denly in the first week of December, 1882.
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, the well-known
painter in water colors, who died at San
Reno, Italy, December s, 1882, at the age
of Go years, is not, perhaps, strictly speak
ing, entitled to a notice in this record
OF American art events. Yet during
her long residence of fifteen years,
from 1860 to 1875, at Portland, Maine,
where her husband filled the position of
British Consul, she SO endeared her.
self to a largo circle of friends,
and became so closely identified with
American art, that it would seem ungra-
cious to let the sad event pass by without
paying tribute to her memory. Her pict-
ures. which were always welcome at the
exhibitions here, found ready apprecia,
ton among buyers, and in the overcoming
of the lack OF interest in water cOlors,
shown by the American public in former
years, Mrs. Murrays works were power.
full aid. Henry Louis Stephens, artist, died
at Bayonne, n. j., on December Is, 1882.
Mr.. Stephens was born, according TO the
New York HeraIdof December IA at Phila-
Gelphia on February IL, 1924 and studied
at the academy in his native city. He
was best known as an illustrator of humor-
Gus books and ehildren's tales, although
his water colors are also spoken of as hav-
ing shown considerable merit. Many viii
remember him as the principal caricaturist
of Vanity Fair, comic paper published in
New York twenty or more years ago.
Charles c. Burleigh, whose portraits at
tracted considerable attention for their
beauty of color, more especially at the exhi-
billions of the Pennsylvania Academy, to
which he was frequent contributor, died in
Germany lately OF heart disease. He was
a native of northampton, Mass, and son
of the late G. c. Burleigh, the well-known
anti-slavery advocate. Henry G Bispham,
animal painter. died at Rome, Italy, De-
cember %, 1852 He was born in Phila-
delphia 10 1S4l Frederick Gortelmeyer.
painter, pupil of Gerome and Carolus