Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
ART NOTES.

Millais is painting his third portrait of
Mr.. Gladstone.
John Sargent, an American artist, has
been given medal of honor by the jury of
awards at the Paris Exposition.
Another Etruscan tomb near Orvieto
Italy, has yielded local and Greek vases,
iron and bronze arms and ornaments, and
other objects buried with the dead.
Rembrandt's famous g ,Nigbs Watch,"
which the authorities of the amsterdam
Museum undertook to renovate in places,
will probably have to be entirely refined
with fresh canvas.
Pupils of the French School at Athens
are at work on the Island of Corfu, where
they have opened the site of temple in
the old town. There are many terra cottas
of crowned women armed with bow and
javelin.
A tomb like the prehistoric tombs found
by DR.. Schliemann at Mycena has been
opened at Vaphion, near the ancient
Sparta. Two gold vases decorated with
reliefs silver and bronze Jars, gold rings,
and carved stones are among the spoil.
John Gelert has completed his model
for statue of Franz Reuter-. the German
author, which it is expected will be event
ually erected in Lincoln Park by the Ger
man admirers of the subject. The model
is in thefo of a statuette, and presents the
author in an easy and familiar attitude,
reading from a book with one hand in his
pocket.
A Scotch gentleman who does not relish
the depreciation of his copy of Ruskin's
Modern Painters consequent on the ap-
pearance of new edition has cited the
venerable writer of picturesque books on
art before the Courts. It is claimed that
buyers of the original edition de lure were
promised that no other edition should be
published.
The Nerestchagin pictures will, after all,
go back to Europe and be placed as a per-
manent collection in Novgorod, in a gal
lery built for them by the artist. He has
designed building to be called the "Ver-
estehagan Studio and Museum" in which
all his pictures and the souvenirs of his
extensive travel shall be gathered and
given to the city as permanent art exhi-
bition.
Mrs. Ellen R. Copp, of Pullman, ILL.,, is
engaged on q bust portrait of Governor
Fifer which promises remarkably well.
She is also modelling at her studio in the
Art Studio building a high relief figure
subject for the Exposition entitled, Rachel
Mourning Her Children" 1t represents
the matronly figure of the bereayed mother
standing under an archway against the
partially drawn drapery which forms the
door. 1t is full of sentiment and feeling.
The Mood lauorl- -, ,,o,ol. e ..
shown at Johnston, Norman & Co.'S in
London receives high praise, and as it is
by American workwomen it serves to
counterpoise much ignorant clamor that is
heard just now against American art rep
resented III Paris. The "Birth of Psyche"
and "The Winged Moon," by Miss Dora
Wheeler, please the 4tteaenn; also the
gorgeous needlework Dragon" by Miss
Clark, and the embroidered curtain
by Mrs. Wheeler. But the critic
is most surprised at American
stained glass. Among the finest things
are the stained glass panels, remarkable
for deep and brilliant hues interspersed
with opalescenee of an amazing charm
which was quite unknown to us until now,
and precious because it not only tells
with exceptional splendor when the
examples are seen under trans
mitted light, but gives new
beauty when they are seen under
reflected light, in which ordinary stained
glass forfeits, Of course, the greater part of
its charm. John La Fargo is the ablest
designer of panels Of this kind, and he has
mastered that secret of the coloration of
stained glass Of varying thicknesses, and, of
collrSp as yarious nenfhS ard hriIiioDca Of
hues. This secret, which was part of the
A Z c of medieval artists, has long been
an unfathomable mystery to the greater
number of the European tradesmen
who make and sell what they call stained
glass windows. Windows they may be,
but, unlike the super-splendid panels of
Mr.. La Fargo, they are far from being
works of art. The gcrgeousness and har-
monies of his vitreous jewelry must be
seen TO be appreciated"