Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-01
ART NOTES.

An ancient aqueduct, unruined and fit
for present use, has been discovered close
to Athens. it is in the suburb toward
Hymettus.
ma-Tadema, whose work has been
telling somewhat upon his health, has left
England for tour through Denmark,
Sweden and Bavaria
A nine-foot statue of the late w. E.
Forster, NJ. F., has been cast IN bronze at
London from the model by Richard
Pinker. 1t will stand on the Thames en-
bankment.
Woodcuts from drawings by w. Hamil-
ton Gibson will appear in September
ScribRei'S in illustration of night views of
nature, seen without glasses or other help
to the eye.
The French journals record the death,
at Paris, of Louis Jules Etex, painter, and
pupil of Lethiere and Ingres, who was
born in 1910 and made his first appear
ance at the Salon in 1888.
The Hanging Committee of the Associ-
ated Charcoal-Sketchers has rejected the
"Picture of a Man, Drawn from Memory"
the work of Miss Penelope Lonely, now
summering at Surf City, n. J.
Owing to the building of railway which
approaches Chelnes, where the Dukes of
Bedford are honored with a mortuary
chapel containing MANY beaitI.lt tombs,
the present Duke has closed tae chS, Fl to
the public.
D. G. French will model the bronze
statue of Thomas Starr King, the preacher,
for Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He
stands with right hand resting on a set Of
Roman fasces and roll of manuscript in
the left. 1t will be ten feet high and cost
$1,000.
A pair oil screens wrought in the finest of
gold lacquer by japanese workmen have
been sold TO merchant of Shanghai for
$4,000. The Chinese never reached as
high point Of perfection in lacquers as
the japanese, though the porcelains of the
former are considered superior
Adolphe Deny has presented to the
Louvre plate of gilt bronze found at
Narbonne last year. 1t contains frag-
ment Of law concerning the provincial
assemblies OF Gallia Narbonensis and the
duties of the tlamen of Augustus, who pre-
sided over that assembly B. c. q.
The managers of the Exhibition of
American Works of Industrial Art, at Phil
adelphia, which opens next month, have
set aside a space 90x30 feet for stained
glass. a New York committee has been
appointed consisting of La Fargo, Tiffany,
Maitland, Armstrong and Lathrop.
The late Duke of Somerset left to GER
tain heirs a gallery of old masters to which
the name of the st. Maur heirloom paint
ings adheres. The legatees have peti-
toned Parliament for authority to sell
them, and Will be permitted. The gallery
contains works by Salvador Rosa, Titan,
Claude, and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
A battle group of three soldiers, COM
prising the Color Sergeant standing, a
wounded officer sinking down and a men,
Der of the color guard kneeling, knapsack
on back and about to raise his gun, has
been finished by dorado Taft of Chicago.
1t is called Defending the Flag" and
will be shown at the autumn exposition in
that city.
The colossal equestrian statue of Gen
eral Robert Z. Lee, designed by Mercie of
Paris, is now in the foundry, where it has
been enlarged, section by section, from the
life-size model supplied by the sculptor.
1t will probably reach Richmond toward
the end of November. The pedestal is
already in place. When unveiled there
will be grand ceremonies about the statue,
including a parade of military and of vet
Grams of the Confederate armies
"The Royal Academy Exhibition of
1SS9-the l2lst-is of rather more than
average interest" says the London Times.
There Is, indeed, one great gap; Frank
Tg tl
sentiments of the eminent people of the
day, so full of force, vigor and actuaIity.
Some of the leading painters of the time
are absent altogether, and some, such as
the President and Sir John Millais, will
not be able to count the present year as
year of triumph. But, on the other hand,
1t Is what may be called a young mans
year. The outsiders supply among them
contingent of powerful and sometimes
even brilliant workers, and many of them,
who, In former years have been little more
than promising, have now attained un-
questionable success. Such are Mr.. Water
low, with his landscape; Stanhope Forbes
and Frank Bramley, with their large sub
Iect picture; II. S luke, with his yividly
realized scene of the sea; Adrian Stokes.
with his beautiful shore piece; Mr.. Pep
pereorn, with his powerful landscape:
Cheyalier Tayler, William Carter, Ernest
Normand, Percy Belgrave, Robert Noble,
Edward King, I. B. Remington, and
many others, not to speak of Mr.. Sargent,
who contributes to the Academy head of
Mr.. Henschel, the singer, of the most
startling vividness"
Francis S. Saltus, who recently died, is
coming into great deal of post-mortem
mention. 1t turns ont that he was as