The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-01
CHAT ABOUT ART.
RecoIlections of Dorothy Tenant,
Who Is SANKEY'S Bride.

@<O you would like a few facts con-
A9 corning the market for works OF art
SS on this Coast?" said Mr.. Vickery.
the enthusiastic art lover and promoter, to
the writer. 81 not only can give you those
facts but some which may be of even more
vital interest to the general reader. A re-
cent telegraphic dispatch speaks of Miss
Dorothy Tenants engagement to Stanley.
l happen to know the Tenant family we'll
and am in receipt of some letters from them
which may interest you. Miss Dorothy
Tenant is quite an artist in her way. she
has painted number of pictures Tor the
academy and some of them have been re-
produced in the illustrated London papers.
Miss Tenants sister, Mrs. Frederick
Myers, is an amateur photographer OF ex-
traordinary merit You may have seen
portrait of Robert Browning taken by her
which was finely reproduced In the Fan
Mall Budget recently"
Has she photographed any other celeb
rites ?"
oh, yes! Her portraits of Bret Harte
are known all over England as well as those
of Gladstone. Her photographs of her own
children are in great demand among her
personal friends, chiefly for their artistic
beauty. In England she is ranked next to
Mrs. Cameron, whose portraits of Jenny
son, Darwin, Herschel and others are so
well known as to need no more than pass
ing mention"
You said you had photograph Of Miss
Tennant?"
Yes; it is one taken by her sister. 1
have hunted for the pachage-there are
number of them-but l cannot lay my
hands upon them just now. they are re-
markably clear-cut and artistic"
" Your exhibition of wood engravlngs
was something new for San Francisco, was
it not?"
1.-The first of its kind ever held here. |
was the fourth in America who exhibited
them. Before the Paris Exposition opened
the American wood-engravers held meet
ing, and each one present offered to SEND
proof engraving of the best work be had
ever done. They were printed on thin
Japan parchment and made an exquisite
display. There were 200 in all. Elbridge
Kingsley, who generally engrayes from
nature, took the first prize for piece called
The Birch Trees which was originally
cut as An Illustration to an article by Ellen
Burroughs. in Harpers'."
Do you consider that his best engray-
ing?yv ~. ..-,.. :. =. -, 49,, =,
of The Old Mill, after j. Francis Murphy,
which is perhaps the most wonderful repro
duction of an impressonist painting that
has ever been made. The gem of the whole
collection. however, was bit oil landscape
called In the Forest, by man named j.
Tinkey. His strength of line and Of dis
lance was marvellous"
Queer name for an artist"
"That is true. 1t is not one that is known
at all, but it ought to be-"
"What else was there?"
"a portrait of Miss Bradley Martin en-
grayed by Thomas Johnston, after Carolus
Duran, and a landscape by Frank French,
who, like Kingsley, works from nature"
WAS the fair sex represented?'
"Ob, yes. Caroline Powell exhibited an en-
craving of the London Underground Rail
way Station Recently | entertained the
Century Club and the ladies seemed to en-
joy themselves hugely"
Have you read the article on J. F. Millet
in q recent issue of one of the magaZines?
"No, not yet. But that reminds me. l
have in my pocket some facts that you did
not find in that magazine, l am certain, for
as far as l know they have never been in
print. You see my brother-in-law is Fred
erick Kepler Of New York, and between US
we pick up some odd bits now ana then.
as either he or l 90 abroad every year.
When Millet was yet an obscure and strug-
Cling young artist, a French publisher asked
him to design the cover Tor g sheet of music
entitled Iu done est-ilY music by
Frederic Lebel. Mllet, delighted
to earn 80 francs, submitted the
following design: A young woman
of terrace, her two children at her side.
For that piece of work Millet was never
paid. The music publisher when shown
the first proof flew into rage and ordered
the stones destroyed at once. When Millet
came to demand his pay, Sc, the publisher
few into another rage and half pushing the
POOR artist out of the Office, slammed the
door in his face and crushed three of Millets
fingers so badly that he could not use his
right hand for some weeks. That sole eX-
listing impression was unearthed by MIR.
KeDer in 1886, who paid price for it that
would have made poor Milletrich 1t latter
ward was added to thu Vanderbilt collec-
ton, where it may now be seen. The i'm
preston was probably made in 1S4S."
By the way. one thing morel In recent
exhibition of etchings in London there was
this entry on the catalogue
The Turning Point-etched by Minnie
Williams after Dorothy Tenant" and here
is one more odd thing, look at the chiffre of
this Frank French, woodpecker, very ap-
propriate for wood-engraver. Going?
We'll, good morning"