Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
ART NOTES,

A new club. for artists only. is projected
in London. It is to be at Chelsea, near
Carlyle's old residence, and will have ex-
hibition rooms near by. The committee
to arrange the premises consists of Whist.
Ter, Jacob Hood, Fred. Brown, Christie and
Lee.
A very early copy of "The Last Supper"
by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered
at Milan, on hidden wall in the Maggiore
Hospital. 1t was made in 1902 and was
walled up. Though its existence was
known it was supposed to have perished
until chance led to its discovery.
The Peabody Institute, at Baltimore, has
received from Miss E. Garrett large paint.
ing with figures the size of life represent
ing Christ carried to the sepulchre. 1t
was the intention of John w. Garrett to
give this picture to the Institute, and his
daughter is now carrying out his purpose.
John Leslie Breck, disciple of the i'm
pressionist Monet, is showing at the St.
Botolph Club, in Boston, half hundred
hold high carnival. One picture shows
the garden of Monet, with that artists
daughter in scarlet jacket, seated beside
her father in the act of painting.
]. P. VOORHEES, of Detroit, son of the
Senator, is an author, an actor and a
sculptor of acknowledged merit, and he
has written q play which those who have
read it are confident will prove a success
Mr.. Voorhees, well. known piece of sculpt-
ure, the Head of the Savior" was said by
Cardinal Giebans to be the best expression
OF the subjsc. he had ever seen.
Artistic Japan edited in French, German
and English by NJ. Bing, will suspend
publication some time during the spring.
At Boston it is proposed by Professor Fe-
nollossa, late Of Japan. to issue the Japan.
csc Magazine of Art in English The illus
trations are printed in colors from wooden
blocks and reproduce many of the old
paintings of Japan, of which there are few
specimens to be seen out of that country.
The attempt has been made in London
to enlist an architect, two sculptors. a
painter, and two designers in the plans for
church. 1t is for a Mr.. Seeding and
stands near Sloane street. The a-chitect is
Armstead, the sculptors are Thorney Croft
and Alfred Gilbert, the painter is Burne-
Jones, and the designers are William Nor
ris and Conrad Dessler. The results from
| this meeting OF artists in one design will
be awaited with curiosity.
The painter Alfred GARNER and the
| enameler Grandhomme have repI o.
duced IN enamel the portrait of
the Prince of Wales by Bastien-
| Lepage, which was shown in London about
1880, and then reused great deal of pro.
| tes. from the public. The Prince is in q
Henry VIII. costume and looks somewhat
as if painted by Holbeip. The enamel is
on copper and is exactly the same as the
original in size, drawing and color.
Pre-. .Raphaeli.ism was literary rather
than an artistic movement. 1t was an echo
- l.. "a. - IL NJ.
idge of the Tractarian movement and OF
of certain moral and philosophical pre-.
occupations that have little in common
with the permanent acceptation of art. We
might even go further and say that Rossetti
and Burne.Jones are great artists, not be-
cause they were pre- Raphaelites, but IN
spite of pre- Observation-Disclosures Child.
Washington furnishes an excellent field
for studies of various types Of 'our brother
in black" and some of the artists at the
capital have not been slow in taking ad-
vaStage OF the opportunities at hand. One
of them, Mr.. James Henry Moser, has re-
Gently exhibited number of water. color
sketches of negro boys of the street gamin
type SO familiar to Washirgtonians, which
have attracted good deal of attention.
Some OF the sketches have been reproduced
by Prang d Co., the Boston art publish.
ers, so that residents of other cities will be
able to enjoy Mr.. Moser's pictures as well
as his neighbors in Washington.
The shaft to commemorate the landing
of Leonard Calvert on the sill of MARYLAND.
for which the Legislature of that State ap-
propriated 81 600 last summer, will stand
on small knoll near the old wharf at ST.
Mary's City. The mulberry tree under
which, according to the legend, Calvert and