Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-16
ART NOTES.

The Princess Louise, Marchioness of
Lorne, is painting portrait of her mother,
Queen Victoria.
Professor Hubert Herkomer, not salts
fed with his renown as a painter, an en-
graver, and teacher, is composing new
opera.
Seven sculptors are competing for the
statue of General Stark, which is to cost
$4,000, and stand in the yard of the State
House at Concord, n. II.
A magazine devoted to the fine arts of
Japan has been started at Yokohama, by
Mr. Fennellosa, the American professor
who accompanied the recent Arts Com
mission of Japan to the United States and
Europe.
The Sunday set apart for artists and art
students to see the bronzes and water-colors
by A. L. Barge, and the paintings by his
contemporaries and friends, was memora-
BILE for the presence of about thousand
of the art guild of New York city.
Jan Chelminsky has painted in London,
for presentation to the Emperor of Russia,
large view of the Newski Prospekt at St.
Petersburg, with the foreground full of
richly-caparisoned sleighs. Most promi-
nent is that of tie Emperor, who is out
driving, with the Empress by his side.
"The Angelus" has been gazed upon
with thoroughly appreciative eyes in Chi
cago. The Times of that city is SO much
impressed with the picture that it exclaims
in burst of enthusiasm: "Millet ought
to have had his studio in Chicago" If
Millet ever felt that way himself he for
got to mention it.
The suggestion that the Greek terra
Gotta groups and vases from Italy and
Greece shown at the Union League, New
York, should be exhibited longer than is
customary was SO far acted upon that an
extra day was allowed the art students of
the city to examine the objects. More
| than 200 availed themselves OF the privi-
lege.
The town meeting of Hartford, Conn,
| has resolved that the Park Commissioners
shall spend $4,000 to complete the decora-
| tions of the memorial arch. Six statues
eight feet high will be placed on the
towers of the arch. They are to symbolic
the return of soldiers to the pursuits of
peace, including statues of farmer, car
penter, blacksmith, mason, merchant and
student.
The recumbent statue of Emperor Fred
| erick for his tomb has been finished in the
clay by Professor Begas, of Berlin. 1t has
been inspected by the Emperor end En-
press of Germany. Frederick is clad in
| the currassier uniform and lies in his cloak
on huge sarcophagus. The hands are
crossed on the breast and hold laurel
wreath and the hilt of a sword, round
which curls branch of palm. Symbolical
| reliefs representing peace and war decorate
the sides of the sarcophagus.
Hogarth during his life had only two
admirers-David Garrick, the actor, and
a certain Mr. Lane-while to-day among
certain class of painters no name ranks
| higher. Yet while he lived and painted
Hogarth found it difficult to sell his pic
lures. There we're then no great public
auction rooms in London for pictures, like
Christie's of to-day, and Hogarth could
only have exposed his pictures to the pub
lie gaze at sign-painter's market. But
| he was too proud to do this, so he adver-
| tised to sell his pictures by auction at his
own house-the Golden Head-in Leices-
ter Fields. This house was so named be-
cause Hogarth had put up head of Van
| dyke, carved by his own hand and covered
with gliding, over the door. Here, in a
little room, so small that only the bidders
were admitted, were most of the pictures
we know so well to-day disposed of at auc-
ton or by rafting. Thus were the famous
''The Election" and Marriage la Mode"
sold, respectively, to David Garrick and to
Mr.. Lane. And for what price? Nobody
giving a hundred gue;s es would guess
aright-at just 90 apiece. Though it is
said that both Garrick and Lane, out of
friendship and knowing that the pictures
they had bought so cheap were worth
much more, deposited after the sale f200
each to Hogartb's credit at his bank, yet
Garrick and Lane would hardly have
thought it possible that "The Election"
in 1923, at the sale on Garrick's death of
all his effects, would bring 81, 732 los,
and "The Marriage a la Mode" should be
afterward sold to the National Museum at
81 050