Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-18
Art NOfes,

The oil.portraits Of Robert E. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, Beauregard, and
Jefferson Davis painted by Guillaume
will be shown in Savannah during the
celebration of their centenary by the
Chatham Artillery. The paintings have
been engraved by Goupil & Co.
In honor Of its one-hundredth birth
day the Academy Of Arts of Berlin will
open next month a jubilee exhibition
of the fine arts in a new building near
one of the railway stations. A chro-
biological series Of German work from
the time Of Frederick the Great will be
shown.
Near Madgeburg an ancient grave,
with skeleton, has been discovered, con-
tanning q small bronze ring, fragments
of pottery, two decorated shells of a
biyalve found only in Southern Europe,
and as many as liz teeth Of the dog,
bored at tho root as if used for o neck
lace.
There is o rumor that the portrait Of
Mrs. Mackay, of Paris, by MISSIONER,
which that lady is said to have destroy
ed out of spite, was not so inhumanly
treated after all. Is it possible that
Meissonier is taking to the well.known
tricks of the stage in order to foment
sensation Munkacsy is evidently there
already.
They tell story in Chicago Of rich
man who has concluded that the walls
of his large house look bare, and has
made an offer to the managers of the
Exhibition of Western Artisans to take
the whole show at fixed price. Good
and bad Chiefly bad are to adorn in
discriminatory the walls of this whole
sale Macenas.
j. f. Tenant calls attention to the
beautiful fringes Of color ON clouds at
sunset. If the sun is behind bank of
clouds at the horizon, upper strata of
light cloud at some distance from the
sun are seen to have fine colors on their
edges if the most brilliant rays from
the west are cut off from the eye by
means Of darkened glass.
When the vans with the Salon pic
lures draw upat the Palace de Indus
trie a crowd Of one-centime wits as
semble. When cattle-piece is carried
in the Champs Elysees are full of bel
lowing. If dogs are on the canvas a
violent barking is heard. A religious
picture is greeted with hypocritical
fervor, and nude evokes chorus of
scandalized obs and abs.
1t would be curious fact in the his
tory of art if America, after supplying
the first liberal and continuously liberal
patrons of the late j. F. hfillet, should
make his widow comfortable in her old
home at Barbiyon. A more graceful
compliment to French art, and one in
which less of the customary afiectation
and self-seeking exists, could not well
be mentioned.
In 1911 patent was granted by
King Charles to John Dwight, of Full
ham, to secure his invention. lie
claimed to have discovered "the Mis-
terry Of Transparent Earthenware, CON-
monty knowne by the Names Of Porce-
laine or China and Persian Ware, as
also the Misterie Of Stone Ware, vul-
carly called Cologne Ware" and asked
to introduce these wares into England,
"where they have not hitherto bene
wrought or made"
Bellarmines," otherwise known as
Graybeards or Longbeards, were drink
g.pitchers or pots made Of the hard
stone-ware called Cologne ware. They
were named in the Low countries after
Cardinal Bellarmine, abigoted Catho-
lie, who died in 1921. Hence the staring
grinace Of the mask on the neck Of the
jug, the long beard, and the big
"belly," for the Cardinal was short,
big in the waist, long-bearded, and
harsh in features.
Many inscriptions Of the time OF
Sulla the Dictator have been unearthed
by the Archaeological Society of Athens
in Oropus on the site OF the ancient
temple Of Amphiaraus. The latter was
one of the seven heroes who fought
against Thebes and was revered as a
seer. The Oropians raised statues to
other prominent Romans besides Sulla.
Many new names Of Greek artists ap-
pear in the inscriptions on pedestals
from which the statues have disap.
peared.