Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-23
ART AND ARTISTS.

The Queen of England has made the
sculptor, Joseph +. Boehm, baronet.
Miss Narney, sculptor of Cleveland,
o., has recently finished bust of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe.
Mr.. Herkomer's term as Slade Professor
of Fine Arts at Oxford expires with June,
but he will probably be reelected without
opposition.
Miss Harriet HoSmer, the famous sculp-
tor, will distribute the prizes in the art
department Of the University of Denver
next Saturday.
1t is expected Mercier's colossal bronze
statue of General Lee will be ready for
shipment from Paris in October. Rich
mond expects at its unveiling such an as
semblage of ex-Confederates as has not
been seen since the war.
The German painters who sent pictures
and the sculptors who sent statuary to the
Paris exhibition have already been boy
cotted at home. Their excuse, that they
thought it only right to try at an interna-
tional competition for recompenses, is
characterized by one German newspaper
as an "impudent and egotistical assertion
of the love of gain"
Professor Sayce has found in a quarry on
the Nile an inscription in Greek which
establishes the date when the great pylOn
or gateway before the temple of Edtu was
restored or enlarged. 1t reads; " In the
eleventh year of Antonius we cut the great
stones eleven cubits in length for the pylon
of the Lord Apollo and the Lady Isis"
The engineer was Apollonios, the son Of
Petesthius.
The arch;eologiSts of Norway have pur-
sued researches into the early population
of the country as far north as 100 l5/. The
results show large population in prehis-
toric times, but one not given to agricult-.
ure. No bronze objects are found, and the
conclusion is reached that the men Of the
Early Iron Age were the first to affect
them, those of the Bronze Age never hav-
ing reached the northern parts.
Harry r. Poore, who has won the $4,000
offered as a prize at the Prize Fund Exhi-
bition now open at the American galleries,
is a Philadelphia artist, whose painting of
dogs and sheep is particularly good. Both
animals appear in the prize picture, as the
subject is the watch of the shepherds dur
ing the night of the nativity. Recently
Mr.. Poore had reason to use whatever
knowledge he may possess OF the nature
and anatomy of the dog. He killed a mad
dog which was attacking three young
ladies, who were, it is needless to say, all
beautiful-in the opinion Of a local paper
The London correspondent of the art
Interchange maintains that the British are
the worst painters in oil among civilized
nations. The Royal Academy exhibition
is more hopeless than one at the National
Academy of Design, inasmuch as it is
equally bad and much more pretentious."
Even Watts, Alma -Tadema, Poynter, and
other painters of important pictures
find no mercy in this critics eyes, Crude
ness, spottiness, rawness Of color, general
unfaithfIlness, are the besetting sins of
these painters" There are many Amer
leans who will concur in these judgments.
Harry Furniss is about to have his por-
trait painted. 1t came about in this way.
In his lecture on portraiture Mr.. Furniss
stated that frequently when a painter
charged 500 guineas for portrait 600 were
for his name and 200 for the portrait, and
that he knew plenty of young men without
names who could produce quite as good a
work of art for the 200 guineas. Since
making that statement Mr.. Furniss has
received number of applications for the
names and addresses of these clever young
men who do not charge for their names.
In reply Mr.. Furniss furnished a name,
commissions ensued, and as a return the
artist is painting his patrons portrait
A Boston painter who lives in Florence,
and is pupil of Bouguereau and Tony
Robert-F -Fleury, has finished in that ancient
abode of the arts an enormous likeness of
the devil. Mephisto stands with folded
arms, lit by the fires OF hell, and is said to
have upon his satanic eountenance express
sions that warrant the adjectives fierce,
heartless, defiant and vindictive" Legend
has already invested this new creation of
the brush with the materials TO-. charm
ing story. The young people invited to
see the picture began to dance, but as the
shaken floor caused the canvas to tremble,
and Mephisto appeared in consequence to
be shaking with laughter, the timid ones
among the dancers refused to continue
their gyrations until the painting was Gov
cred 1t was certainly" writes some one
to the Boston Gazette, a great triumph for
the young artist"