Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-17
Art Notes.

Professor Alexander Won Kotzebue, the
Youngest son OF the ouce popular aywrighl,
! has lust died at Munich. He was born In
| the year 1915 at Kongsberg. and, after
| having studied under Horace Vernet, he ac-
| Quired for himself a respectable reputation
as battle painter.
At Pergamus has been found u large sar-
| cOphsgus containing objects OF gold with
Ornamentation, vases, and other valuable
| treasures This discovery, made by pea
SAINT die ging his field near the slope OF the
AcrOpolis. determines the position Oh the
long-sougbt-ior metropolis OF that city.
Tn. brilliant portrait by Frans Halls re.
| Gently acquired by the English National
GsIlery, aud bung next the doorway in the
"Duich and Flemish Room" WAS believed
| 10 be portrait OF the artist, and WAS so de-
| scTibed on the label. Doubt having since
| arisen on the subject, the label has very pro.
pery been removed, and this superb head
will probably be reegated to the vast army
Of portraits "of man."
Signor Locco, formerly painter to the
court OF Naples, died recently at Csrdih,
Wses. He had a wide reputation as min.
isture painter, and had attained the sge OF
ninety years. lie was native OF Palermo.
but bad lived chiefly In England for more
than half q century and bad painted minis
lures on ivory OF several royal persOnsges,
including the Queen and tue Prince aud
Princess Of Wales.
The twenty.second exhibition OF the New
York Water Color Society has closed with
results which are regarded az Satisfactory.
The sales OF wateI-celOrs smonnt TO about
$2I, 900 and the sales OF etchInss 10 nearly
s., 200. over 10000 admission tickets have
been sold at the door. The receipts IN pre-
vious ycprs have been nearly $23, 900 in 1888,
S2I, 500 la 1887, SOS, Zoo IN 1886, $4,000 in
1855, SIG, 000fu 1884, $4,000 in 1883, $685.
600 in 1882, aud $4,000 10 1881.
A remarkable metal crucifX has been dis
covered beneath the chaucel floor OF a
church IN the Holderpess district 1t is OF
bronze and the figure Is followed out at the
back. IL Is six inches long and the stretch
OF the arms Is five and halt inches. The
feet are not folded over each other. The
full drapery round the waist is fastened with
a girdle, and comes down nearly 10 the feet.
The crucifx cannot be later in date than the
twelfth century.
In one Of the tOmbs recently explored by
DR.. Tsoudas at Nycene have been found
various objects Of Ivory, and amongst them
two cylinders OF unknown use. One OF
these Is covered with ornamental circles IN
relief composed Of ShellGsh. Other ivory
ornaments are the upper part OF the body OF
a woman, who holds In her LETT hand
branch or flower, also in relief about five
centImetres high, the lower part Of the body
Of n woman seated. and small plague, pre-
served entire, on which is sphinx IN
relief.
The GresyenOr Exhibition, London, has
gsiued new attraction in the shape Of case
Of relies OF Constable. Here may be seen
his lsrge wooden colQr-box, with it, biz hog
hair brushes, bottles of pigments in powder,
q rude palette-knlie, and much-bedaubed
wooden palette, also the corpse OF the mouse
which Constable, rising from the ground,
where he had been sitting long, while silent
ly painting from nature, found In his pocbet,
he having sat upon the creature. The
artists watch. sketch-bOoks, a few drawings,
and book OF toe are also SHOWN.
Mr.. w. j. Linton, whose vigor Is scarcely
lessened by his seventy-eight years, has been
leciuring on Nood.engraying before The Lon
don Society OF Arts. 4 reporter III a Lon
don newspaper Saws that the "lecturer, With
forcible earneslness, acclaimed AGAINST the
fine nigghng work OF the American School
Of Wood Engraving rs degrading TO the art,
and he accused its followers as merely using
a complicated network OF close fine lines on
every surface alike-be it flesh, water, air,
or earth, simply TO hide their want OF arIis-
tic Intelligence"