The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
A VERY FINE COLLECTION.
THE ART-Lo4N EXHIBITION OF TIE
JERSEY CITY ATHLETIC CLUE.

The Loan-Art exhibition at the new club
house at the corner of Crescent and Gin
ton avenues is said by people who know
whereofthey speak TO be probably the finest
exhibition of the kind ever given in New
Jersey 1t is in a great many respects a
counterpart of the exhibition of paintings
at the Palma Clubs opening fair, although
it differs SC mewhat from that in that there
are some paintings at the present exhibi-
ton that were not at the Palma Club
House. The collection contains 11S num-
bers. the value of which in the aggregate
amounts to probably 100000 Of the lis
paintings and etchings, Mr.. William T.
Evans, who is widely known in this county
as an art connoisseur, is the owner of So;
DR.. P. J. Koonz, of Lafayette. owns 10;
ex-Mayor Seidler owns 8; Mr.. r. v Bab-
bett owns G: Mr.. James Fleming owns 8;
Mr.. A. DHuyvetter Z, and Mr.. Joseph L.
Fcrin 4. The balance are owned bv numer-
GUS other gentlemen. including Governor
Albeit, ex- Governor Ludlow, ar Mt. Uriah
Allen.
The most valuable painting in the collee-
ton is the property of Mr. Evans. 1t is
painting of Landscape and Cattle" by
Van Marcke, of Paris, and is valued at
SIS. 000 The second most valuable paint
ing ia the collection is Bierstadt's Gin the
Black Hills" the property of Governor
Albeit the value of which is placed at
$500. Mr.. Uriah Aliens ''Savior and st.
John the Baptist, the work Of Mulgie. of
Madrid, for which Mr.. Allen is said to
have paid the Government $4,000, is
certainly one of the brightest and most
Snowy paintings in the collection and COM
manas much attention and comment. An
other valuable paintiDg-and it's worth is
placed at 50 500-is Carpenters SAN Ac-
count TO Settle" the property OF Mr.
D'Huyvatter. The painting is a large one
and represents q bar-room scene in which
the object on which all eyes are centered
is a fellow, apparently the most uncon-
cerned person in the room, is engaged
putting cigar on a chair into which he has
carelessly thrown himself. The barkeeper
is shaking his clenched fist at the fellow
and several people, including a woman, are
sitting or standing around the room watch
ing the delinquent in a most suspicious
manner and anxiously awaiting the next
scene in the drama, Probably as perfect
work of art as the collection can boast is
10y SASch, Ny AyOu, VI NEW 10TH. the
property of Mr. Evans. It is good sized
painting and represents the first rays Of
the morning breaking over the city from
the eastern horizon, while the west side of
the city, which has not yet caught the rays,
is wrapped in gray and the great ships at
anchor in the slips look gloomy oh
jects indeed with their siekiy lights
at their sterns. Next in the order of
value is very small painting, the property
of Mr.. Evans. 1t is entitled "Iesting the
Broth and is said to be worth 81. 600, It's
value lies in the fact that the artist Mr..
Edward Frey, is deceased. Another 81. 600
painting, also by deceased artist Thomas
N. LeClear-is 'Hgh, Jack, Game" the
property of Mr.. M. W. Midgley. This is
generally conceded to be one of the finest
paintings in the collection. 1t represents
newsboy and bootblack deeply interested
in game of High, Low, Jack, on the side
walk, while @ negro lad, who has carelessly
dropped his white-wash pail and brush on
the walk, has stopped to watch the progress
CT the game, in which he seems to take as
deep an interest as the players. The ex-
pre- ssion on the faces of all three of the boys
is extremely natural Another painting
which deserves special mention by reason
of lis value, IS ''The Dancing Lesson. +" by
the celebrated artist, Alvarez, of Rome. 1t
is very small and represents French dane
ing master, with his rattan in his hand.
teaching very pretty faced young lady the
first steps in the terpsichorean art. It is
loaned by Mr.. Horace Il. Hotchkiss, and
small as it is, has a wide reputation and is
worth DO less than 81, 800. A most attract
i've painting, and at the same time his
torical one is that of "Chaflotte Courday,"
loaned by Mr.. r. o. Babbitt. It is a COPY
from the original, by the celebrated artist
@. L. Muller, of Paris, now in the famous
Corcoran gallery IN Washington. The atr-
lists price for the original was $40 900, but
he sold it to Mr.. Corcoran for Sc, 900, the
condition of the sale being that it should
remain in the Corcoran gallery as long as
the gallery should remain in existence
There is but one other copy of this painting
in this country. It's value is about 81 500.
Another valuable little painting is ',Read-
ing the NKws," loaned by Mr.. r. o. Bah.
bitt. 1t is small, but attracts universal at
tention by reason of its being a most exact
reproduction of nature ITSELF Its value is
81, 900. Mr.. George Milers Autumn
by Gilbert Gaul, of New York, is something
very fine and natural. 1t is valued at
81, 2G0. "Ihoughts of Home" by Kray,
of Vienna, represents beautiful brunette
peasant girl, with a tambourine in her
hand, leaning against castle wall with
far away expression on her face. 1t il
much admired and by many pronounced
tae finest thing in the collection. It is
probably worth 1000 In the Land of
Promise, is a Castle Garden scene. 1t is
quite large painting and much admired.
It is said to be a master piece of the cele-
brated artist of Venice, G. T. Ulrich. and is
probably worth 81, 800 at auction. Another
noticeable and very attractive painting is a
large ''Cow's Head" 1t is by Verboeck-
hoven, of Antwerp, and is worth $1,000.
Its owner is Mr.. G. Fl, DeSilver. Jean
Beraud's ssOn the Boulevard" is too widely
known co need comment here. It is the
property of Mr.. Horace L. Hotchkiss and
was one of the paintings at the Metropoli-
tan loan exhibition, in New York, some
time since. Mr.. Hotchkiss would not take
fnr frha oil