The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
ART NOTES.

a travelling scholarship of $500 offered
by a Bostonian to the pupils of the schools
of the Museum of Fine Arts was awarded
by jury Of three artists to j. @. Martin.
It is fact that sculptors and painters
find the old daguerreotype better to work
from than the photograph. for the dis
carded dagu":reotype 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 to spare.
Hogarth's TASTES in High Life, which
changed owners at Christie's recently
for COPS, was sold in 1746 with the pict-
ures Of Miss Edwardes, wealthy and
eccentric lady. to a Mr.. Birch for five
guineas.
Holman Hunt has made great progress
with his new picture, though its advance
is necessarily slow, owing to the great
number of portraits of Fellows and
others it includes. The work is to be
called "May Morning on Magdalen Tow
er."
Ezekiel, Of Rome. has finished a re-
cumbent statue of Mrs. White, wife to
the former minister at Berlin, for the
chapel at Cornell university. The figure
is clad in long, flowing robes, and holds
a rose in her hands. which are clasped
over her bosom.
The Dore gallery in New Bond street,
London, is said to make $4,000 a year.
Orders for publications of Dore's pict-
ures are claimed to have reached the
sum of $35O,7s0 during the last five
years, while the present stock of engrav-
ings is estimated at 1925, 200.
NJ. Cain. the sculptor, has refused a
medal awarded him at the Paris exposi-
ton because, as he claims, one of the
jurors who conferred the honor was
some time ago fined for counterfeiting
his (Cain's) works. There are some COM
pliments of which artists do not approve.
At sale in London an early work Of
Mile. Rosa Bonheur, painted in 1917, and
formerly belonging to the famous en-
gineer, Brunei, was bought at 1850
guineas, the last bid being from Messrs.
Agnew at 2,4O0 guineas. The picture
measures 10 inches by 80 inches, and is
landscape with group of six red Breton
oxen.
An instance of the fuctuation Of pic
ture prices is given by the "Hobbema, "
for which Mr.. Agnew gave $500 guineas
after a spirited duel with Mr.. Vert
heimer, who is said to have been buying
for one of the Rothschilds. For this
picture NJ Secretan paid $4,000, while
in the early part of this century it
changed hands for 1894.
Carl Gerhardt, of Hartford, Conn.,, has
modelled statue of Seth Boyden eight
and half feet high. In leather apron and
with sleeves rolled up, Boyden stands by
an anvil. His right rests on partly
open book on the anvil; his left hand
contains the model of a locomotive,
which Re studies. The statue is for a
public square of Hartford.
The collection or renaissance bronZes,
sculptures, arms, pictures and porcelains
belonging to Mile. Grandjean, which she
offered to the republic, was accepted by
President Carnot for the Cluny museum,
in Paris. 1t is said to be worth $500, 900.
One Sevres vase of porcelaine tendre,
known as rose pompadour, is considered
to represent the sum of $50 900.
Sydney P. Hall, of The London Graph
ic, since 1859 has been commissioned by
the Prince of Wales to make picture OF
the royal wedding. The background
was noted by Mr.. Hall in the course Of
two or three visits he paid to the Buck
ingham palace chapel before the cere-
mony took place. Mr.. Hall received his
artistic baptism Of fire in the Franco
German war