Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-08

lauuJ ID, T. OII, d. doVo, 4uUmes
Hayes, R. S. McDougall, Geo. McDoug'
all, Geo. Lindenfeld, 9. 9. Desmond
Ed o. Gahshl, ]. Harrington, ]. Des
mond, Boyle Workman, Will Wilson
Geo. Wilson, Mr.. Smith, Thomas Gray.
ART NOTES.
Gossip From the Leading Center
OF the World.
1t is fact that sculptors and painters
find the old daguerreotype better to worl
from than the photograph, for the dis
carded daguerreotype registered far bet
ter the true modelling of the face.
The London Globe says that in spite OF
rich Americans in London the number
of pictures sold at the Royal Academy
rejected, can be counted on the fingers
of one hand with finger or two te
spare.
The Dore gallery in New Bond street
London, is said to make $50, 900 a year
Orders for publications of Dore's pictures
are claimed to have reached the sum o.
$3.50, $50 during the last five years, while
the present stock of engravings is esti
mated at 1925, 1000.
M. Cain, the sculptor, has refused g
medal awarded to him at the Paris ex.
position because, as he claims, one of the
jurors who conferred the honor was
sometime ago fined for counterfeitine
his (Cain's) works. There are some
compliments of which artists do not ap.
prove.
An instance of the fuctuation oil
picture prices is given by the Hob.
bema," for which Mr.. Agnew gave 200
guineas after spirited duel with Mr..
| Wertheimer, who is said to have been
buying for one Of the Rothschilds. For
this picture M. Secretan paid e12 900,
while in the early part of this century ii
changed hands for G294.
At sale in London the other day an
early work of Mile. Rosa Bonheur,
painted in 1S47, and formerly belonging
to the famous engineer, Brunei, was
bought at $500 guineas, the last bid
being from Messrs. Agnew at 2,40O
guineas. The picture measures seventy
inches by fifty inches, and is landscape
with group of six red Breton oxen.
Boston proposes to erect statues of
heroic size in bronze to the memory of
Admiral Farragut and Generals Grant
aud Sheridan, the last mentioned to be
equestrian. Propositions should be di-
rected to the Clerk of the Committee on
Statues at the City Hall. Designs should
include that of the pedestal as we'll as
the statue, and models and designs must
be in by noon of November LIST.
Hogarth's "Tastes in High Life"
which changed owners at Christie's re-
Gently for G225, was sold in 1746 with
the pictures of Miss Edwardes, wealthy
and eccentric lady, to Mr.. Birch for S
guineas 1t was in 1742 painted on COM
mission for this lady, the price being 60
guineas, and it embodied her notions of
the subject so closely that Hogarth is
said to have despised his own work.
Ths collection OF renaissance bronzes,
sculptures, arms, pictures and porcelaine
belonging to Mdlle. Grandjean, which
she offered to the republic, has been &C.
copied by President Carnot for the Cluny
Museum in Paris. 1t is said to be worth
$500 1000. One Sevres vase of porcelaine
tendre, known as rose pompadour, ie
considered to represent the sum Of
$4,000
M. j. Tissot, the French artist, is en-.
gagged upon a series of water colors rep.
resenting the life of Christ. They will
number 300, of which a third are al.
ready finished. The painter, who has
made two journeys to Palestine for local
color, reckons that they will all be of
his hands in two years. time. The series
will be published in sumptuous volume.
Each drawing is about eighteen inches
by twelve.
When Henry Savage Lander, the
young English painter, was in Washing.
ton he told of lady in Boston who asked
him to come and look at a painting by
one Of the old masters. hanging on hel
wall. cit looks like one of Millaiss,' u
said Lander. eyes, it is," she replied,
''But, my dear madam" said he, "you
do not call Millais one of the old mas.
ters?" "Why, isn't he? supposed he
was quite an elderly gentleman"
The buyer of the "Angelus" had to pay
fee of five per cent. additional to the
Government after the knock-down price
of 553, 900 francs, for which he obtained
| it in Paris, so that the total cost was
$50 $50 francs. Mr.. Sutton hopes to get
Especial Act of Congress enabling him to
bring the picture into this country free OF
duty for an exhibition. Then he would
probably take it back to France and keep
it there until the thirty per cent. tax ie
repealed before definitely importing it.
Another important Rembrandt has
found an American owner. The "Por.
trait of DIR. Tulip" the finest of the Rem
brandts in the Seilliere collection, has
been purchased by J. w. Ellsworth, OF
Chicago, and has arrived in that city. DIR.
Tulip is one of the principal figures in the
celebrated "Lesson in Anatomy" and
this portrait bears the same date, 1882.
We wish the picture could be shown to
New York for little while at the Metro.
politan Museum. 1t is one of the most
important of Rembrandt's portraits.
| In the pother which has been made
over the sensational sale of Millet's can.
gelus" the fact has been overlooked thai
the original study for the picture hae
been for some years in this country-in
the collection of W. T. Walters, of Balti.
more. The study, which is in black and
white, is carefully executed, and the
completeness of the expression is re-
markable, since Millet was master Of
linear design. This is the only study
which was made for the painting
Among the paintings by Millet in Mr.
Walters's collection is the "Ghe spfold, >
one of two or three pictures by Mile,
which are considered by amateurs to be
finer in quality than the "Angelus."
At the Villa Patrizi in Rome, during
the construction of new road, The statue
OF q woman Larger than life sud splen
didly preserved, has just bsen dis
coverad. r. ia nj the daeorat;ve lind n