Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-27
ART NOTES.

A Rosa Ronheur of 1S47, landscape with
six red oxen, was recently sold in London
| for Sl2, 800.
Alma Tameda is making tour through
! Denmark, Germany and Sweden for the
benefit of his health.
A Roman aqueduct has been lately
cleaned and put in order at Sahelies,
Spain, and now supplies the town with
water.
The caricaturist, Caran PAche, who ex-
GELS in funny outline sketches of military
men of all grades, is said to be NJ. Eman-
uel Poirie.
Mr.. Whistler will have an exhibition
next February in the galleries of the Fine
Art Society, London. 1t will include
etchings and pastels as well as oils.
A bust of the late S. B. Chittenden of
Brooklyn, modelled by F. E. Elwell of
New York. will be placed in marble in
the new library building of Yale Univer-
sity.
Bosa Bonheur, who works as indefatiga-
bly, as ever, is making some studies of the
Indians and the animals of Buffalo BilPs
troupe for large painting she intends to
execute.
A full-length oil portrait of Washing
ton, which was purchased for $40 at the
recent sale of the Barnum's Hotel effects,
in Baltimore, is now estimated to be worth
81 900, experts having pronounced it to
be an original by Gilbert c. Stuart.
A statue of the late Louisa NJ. Alcott is
to be modelled the coming wiuter by
Frank L. Elwell, Concord sculptor, an
intimate friend of the authoress. There
is rumor that the statue may be placed
in the free public library Of Concord.
The Layton Gallery of Milwaukee has
received bust of Frederick Layton, mod
eled by the well-known Florentine sculptor
Albano, and cut in marble. The coat and
waistcoat of this bust initiate the different
stuffs of which the sitters costume was
made.
f. S. Church has composed on large
scale another of his peculiar fancies in
paint, emblematic of the fog. A troop Of
weird sisters come onward from the sea-
led by nymph on a stallion, whose power
full frame mingles with the foam of the
breakers. The nymph's face is made out
the head of the charger is also painted
with comparative clearness. Her follow
ers, clothed to their mouths in flowing
white draperies, are gradually lost in the
fog to seaward. F. H. King will engrave
the picture for HarpeT'S Basar.
The studio at Rome of the American
sculptor, Mr.. Ezekiel, of Cincinnati, o., is
an interesting spot. He has devoted to
his use lofty apartment in the Baths of
Diocletian. A paved stairway leads to a
small vine-clad terrace. Works of art
vases, fragments of old armor, antique
heads and ornaments gleam through the
dark foliage. Artists have ornamented
the interior of the high hall, pillars rich
with carvings uphold the arches, lamps
and statuettes occupy the msntels, and
tapestries and paintings adorn the walls
The studio has became famous in Rome,
and was recently visited by several mem
bers of King Humberts court.
The Art Congress of Great Britain will
be held on the the 2Sth Of October at Ed
inburgh, when the Marquis Of Lorne will
make the address. Many prominent
painters, sculptors and architects will read
papers at the Congress Free evening
lectures to workingmen will be given by
William Morris, Walter Crane and others.
Invitations have been sent to organiza-
tions intended to promote the arts among
the people, some of which bear names
never heard before outside their limited
sphere. The society under the charge of
which the Congress will be held calls it.
self the National Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Art and its Application to
Industry. This name must have pecul-
iarly maddening effect upon artists, like
Mr. Whistler, who deny that nation not
naturally artistic can become SO by form
ing societies and passing resolutions.
The National Portrait Gallery of Lon
don has bought likeness of the Earl
of Rochester, the favorite of Charles II.
1t is by Wissim, and is remarkable for an
obscure satire embodied in the crowning
of monkey by Rochester with wreath
of laurel. The monkey at the same time
offers his master scrap of paper. Three
new Knellers comprise likeness of the
Earl of Macclesield, painted in 1714; a
portrait of Charles Montague, Earl of
Halifax, the friend of Pope and Newton,
and one of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Roehes-
ter. Lord High Treasurer under james II.
A fourth Kneller shows the Countess of
Sunderland, second daughter Of the Duke
of Marlborough. Among the purchases is
view of the Court of Chancery held in
Westminster Hall under George l., with
over sixty portraits of noted men Of the
time, painted by deaf and dumb artist
named Feirers Among the gifts is the
portrait of the late John Bright by Oulers,
which has bee,s etched by Paiou.