The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-14
ART SALE EXHIBITION.

Notes by Lady Artist and COnnOisseur.
The pictures on exhibition and for sale
at the store of the Pacific Hardware
Company on Fort street are 80 remark
ABLY good and so reasonable in price,
that some explanation is owing the pub
lie ON their account. In London Mr..
Dillingham; quite by accident happened
in at an auction; it was that OF family
of wealth and taste brought suddenly to
poverty and all their effects put under
the hammer. It being dull day but
few people were present at the auction,
thus enabling Mr.. Dillingham; to select
number of the best pictures at pItifully
small prices; he offers them to the pub
lie here for but reasonable advance on
the original purchase, but far beneath
their artistic value. To enumerate
them all would occupy too much space
but the most notable are:
No. 8, Forgotten Errand," by I.
Long. The painting OF still-life in this
picture is very fine. A mother chides a
curly-haired urchin who with hanging
head and downcast eyes confesses forget
fulness. The scheme of color Is low in
tone and very harmonious.
"Sword Dance" by 81. Richter, shows
/ a beautiful palace scene where young
Emperor leans upon his hand, and sur
rounded by friends and courtiers watches
| the graceful movements of young wo-
man who airily glides through the
fanciful figures of the sword dance. A
| haze of Italian warmth and color per-
vades this picture, while in the distance
| the pale blue bay OF Naples lies SHIN
mering under southern sun.
A bold original picture is The
| Chase" by a Russian artist, B. Marco
| vitzski, who evidently knows and loves
what he paints. A party of cossacka
riding through the prairie are attacked
| by wolves, and in the foreground rough
] fellow on white horse throws a lasso
! at wolf, while q crowd of riders come
| galloping after. It is painted in the free
| dashing manner of one familiar with
such scenes and life. The cold grey sky.
the fsr-reaching dreary prairie, the
cossacks form the subjects of several
| pictures by the same artist. No. 10, by
! another Russian painter, l.. Pernett, is
of crowd of fur-clad travellers dashing
over the snow and ice in Writzkas drawn
| Russian fashion, by three horses abreast
"Spring," by III. Richter, is an idea
picture, showing a lovely maiden handl
| ing q goblet of water to a knight in
armor, as he alights by wayside brook
The cool shadowy water is beautifully
painted, so also the cupids at play
among the flowers.
76, IA Close CALL" is a little gem
Two dogs with sparkling eyes and loll
ing tongues watch the departure of rat
from trap. It is charming little pic
ture of dog life.
A large painting of "Flora," by Hof:
man, is very gorgeous in color and rich
! in design. A plump and pleasing
maiden reclines on a couch clad in scar
let drapery while countless rosy-cheeked
cupids bring her flowers, and all about
her pile up the fragrant roses.
There are several small hunting scenes
| very clever and chic, and some sheep by
A. Nowly very realistically painted.
"The Cossacks," by Perrett, is stir
| ring Russian scene. Two dashing fg-
ures charge at full gallop out of the pic
ture, habiliments flying in the air and
spears aloft. 1t is fine in tone, rich in
color, and the distances particularly
| good. In all it is a remarkable collec-
ton and needs only to be seen to be APP
preciated. ISABEL STRONG.