The Portland daily press., 1884-05-30
Art Notes.

Unless the tariff is removed this is reported
to be the last year of grace for American
artists at the Salon.
Millss has presented the Garrick Club with
the best portrait of Henry Irving that is in
existence
The late George Fullsr's ."Nydia, the Blind
Girl of Pompeii," has been etched by Mr.,
Stephen Ferris OF PHILADELPHIA.
Paul Tilton, son of the noted American
landscape painter at Rome, has been a pupil
of Carolus Duren for the past year and has
two pictures admitted to the Salon.
The English government has been offered
twelve pictures, including the Raphael and
Rubens pictures of the holy family, for So, OOO,-
600 They are now owned by the Duke of
Marlborough.
Gustav Richter, the lately deceased German
painter. married in advanced life the hand
some daughter of Meyerbeer, the composer
Like Rubens, Richter made his beautiful wife
the subject of many Of his finest pictures.
In Casa Story is the studio of the greatest
living Italian sculptor, Monteverdi, man of
fair complexion, bearded and blue eyed, not
at all Ike the ideal Italian. Notable among
lis works are columbus in His Youth" and
Franklin Claiming the Lightning"
The fifty-ninth annual exhibition of the
New York Academy of Design was opened to
private view on Friday. Over 1900 paintings
were sent in, and trife over 700 we're &C.
cepted and hung. The HOO rejected artists
are going to have an exhibition OF the own.
James Wormley, of Washiu gton, d. O., has
presented the Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
with the portrait of Charles Sumner paintsd
by Henry Ulko, which hung in the reception
room of his hotel. Ulko was a Prussian, who,
after participating in the trouble of l84S, came
to this country at 80 years OF age and settled at
Washington, where he now resides, and where
he painted three portraits of Charles Sumner,
Il CO.. N,.I IL l.
erty OF the Hayten government, and the one
mentioned above.
According to the New York Mail and Ex.
press, bill is now before Congress, providing
for the es ablishment of an official Bureau OF
Fine Arts, to be placed under the direction of
the Secretary OF the Smithsonian Institution,
aud to be devoted to ''aiding the development
OF the tne arts In the several States and Terri
tories of the United States by the reproduction.
for the use of art-sehools and academies, of
statuary and other objecs used in giving in
struction in ART" The duties of the Bureau
are to include also the holding, in Washing
ton, of an annual exhibition of works OF al A.,
and the publication of an annual register,
containing an account OF new discoveries in
ventious, and methods of instruction useful to
students of art" The casts produced BY the
Bureau, together with its publications, are TO
be distributed among institutions of art, un-
der such regulations as the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution may establish" The
Mail and Express, in commanding upon this
proposition, says, with truth, that the assunp-
ton upon which the bill is based, that the peo-
pie of the United States need to be encouraged
to establish more of the institutions for "ort-
education" which swarm in the Eastern cities,
is fallacy; and, we may add. one which eau
not be strongly denounced. AS the Mail and
Express suggests, OF instruction in practical
prosaic, workmaDlike drawing we need as
much as we can get, and everywhere, but we
teaching people who know no better to make
themselves ridiculous by works III which there
is not the smallest artistic quality, and if the
aid of the United States Government can prof
itably be invoked tp foster art in this country,
We would rather 500 it employed in extermn-
ating the whole race of cheap instructors Of
silly amateusr than in extending their facili-
ties for doing mischief Architect