Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-02
ART NOTES.


ART NOTES.
Subscriptions for the Grady monument
have reached S15,652 95. The Boston
Merchants Association, late hosts of the
eloquent Southerner, subscribed $1,000.
Lincoln College Oxford, has recently
bought picture of John Wesley, which is
either the original or replica of picture
painted by James Williams in 1S43, when
Wesley was fellow of Lincoln.
Mrs. Milmore, widow of the sculptor, has
received a finely engraved gold thimble
from the inmates of the Confederate Sol
diers' Home at Austin, Texas, to whom
she has shown many kindnesses.
The Committee on Science and the Arts
of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
has awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal to
Ottmar Mergenthaler, of Baltimore, for
the invention of the linotype machine.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
officials have in contemplation the cree
ton of an interesting monument near
Bordentown, n. j., to designate the loca-
ton of the first mile of railroad laid in
New Jersey. A portion of the monument
will be made of the original spikes and
plates of the first section of the road, which
have been carefully preserved for this pur-
pose. The section of the railroad men,
toned belonged to the old Camden & Am
boy Railroad and is now operated by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Isaac Dripps, the
engineer who ran the first train over this
road, is still living, hale and hearty, and is
enthusiastic over the proposed monument.
Mr.. Dripps recently visited this place to
point out the exact spot where the road
was commenced.
'eThere is difference between manufact-
ured illustrations and illustrations that
are not" remarked an artist yesterday
afternoon as he spread out copy of TIE
Illustrated London Netrs before him "Now
observe this illustration. Should you say
it was made up in pieces or that it is bit
of nature ~
"The former" responded the visitor.
Fright you are. | know the artist we'll
and know his methods. He gets an order
for picture. Attractive young woman
simply understanding in pensive atti-
tude-rural scene Then he turns to his
scrap-book wherein are posted innumera-
BILE photographs. The fence he takes from
one photographic house from another
and bits of landscape from many others.
Then he uses his wife as the model for the
pensive, aud lays in the drapery by paint
ing from dummy. In this manner the
black and white sketch is manufactured.
1t is sent to the publisher. Perhaps it
comes back with comments. Girl not
pretty enough, or not young enough, or
not pensive enough'-the English like
pensive subjects-'put COW in the back
ground and a purling brook at the girls
feet Well, the face is toned down to the
proper degree of melancholy. The COW
and the brook are added and the picture
appears. And that is the way the black
and-white pot-boilers work. Detroit IIi5-
une.
Mr.. Carl Conrad's statue of John Stark,
which is to be set up in the State House
yard at Concord, n. H., represents a man
and citizen rather than soldier, and is in
no way dependent upon dramatic action
and the accessories of military dress for
effect. The face indicates strength of
character, agreeably relieved by an ex-
preston of benignity, and is a close copy
of the Photographic reproduction of Trum-
bulls historical painting, which was fur
nished in the specifications. He wears a
high stock, with ruffies at the throat and
wrists, and the anatomy shows live man
beneath the big coat, small clothes and
top boots. The poise is upon the left leg,
and one hand rests in the breast of the
coat. The work is altogether fully equal
to his other productions, among which
are the statue of General Stone, at West
Point; General Halleck, at San Frau
cisco; Alexander Hamilton, at Central
Park, New York; Departure" tablet
in the Pilgrims monument at Plymouth,
and marble minute Man" in the Town
Hall at Lexington. The statue will be
bronze, eight feet high, and rest upon
pedestal of Concord granite, eight feet in
hight, making the statue stand sixteen
feet above the ground. The monument
will be ready for unwilling on October LIST.
In faithfulness of features to the photo
graph from which it was copied the
sculptor has been especially successful.
At an auction sale Hogarth sold to AL
derman Beckford, the father of that Beck
ford who is known from the title of the
book he wrote as "Vathek" Beckford, the
series of six paintings known as "The Har-
lots Progress" for gSS As, or ETA 14s.
apiece, and the series of eight known as
"The Rake's Progress" for e1S4 les, or
ESQ les. apiece Fonthill Abbey, so asso-
ciated with the great collections of books
and other objects of art which the two
Beckfords, father and son, so assiduously
collected, was burned in 1855. Four of
the six paintings comprising "The Har-
lots Progress were destroyed-the other
two were sold at the Munro sale of paint
ings at Christie's, in London, in 1870, for
G546, more than six times as much as the
whole six originally brought. "The Rake's
Progress" fortunately, was not burned at
the fire at Fonthill Abbey, but was saved,
to be afterward sold to Sir John Sloane,
the curious founder of the still more Curl
GUS Sloane Museum, in 1902, for 1888.
Gainsborough, that very great and beau
tiful painter, met with no different fate
from Hogarth. When he died the halls
and staircases of Schomberg House, in Pail
Mall, where he lived, were found cluttered
up with beautiful painting which he had not
been able to dispose of. Yet "The Market
Cart,n now in the National Gallery, cost
Ct 200 to buy in 1928; another, "Tha Har-
vest Wagon" brought, in 1868, e3,147 los;
another called "Rustles on the Road" in
1875, brought e3,465, and peasants and
Golfers Going to Market" in 1888,
brought e2,385. But these prices pale to
insignifcance before the e9,975 paid for
"The Sistersv-the two Misses Ramus
and this before the picture which had so
strange a fate, the famous portrait Of the
famous and beautiful Duchess of Devon
shire, which was sold few years ago at
public auction at Christie's for fl0,605.
This was the picture which created SUCH a
Juror when it was exhibited-it became a
fashionable thing to go to see it, and
Christie's was crowded day after day-and
then was cut from its frame and stolen,
never to reappear again.
The Alarm Clock.
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