Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-06
ART NOTES.

A statue of John Bright is soon to be
erected at Rochdale.
John Galert, the sculptor, is engaged on
fine, strong portrait bust of Miss Sarah
Coonly.
Albert Bierstadt is at work on a large
painting of the discovery of America by
Columbus.
The Sacramento School of Design began
its two weeks spring vacation on Monday
last. The school is In prosperous condi-
tion.
John Rogers, the sculptor, began life as
a drygoods clerk in Boston, and did not
enter upon his career in art until he was
past 80 years of age.
Professor Hubert Herkomer is himself
making most cf the art metal and wood
work for his new house in his smithy and
wood d-carving sheds at the bottom of the
garden of his present abode at Bushey.
The old Salon managed by the Society
Of French Artists, less the secessionists,
will open as usual on May 1st, and con-
tinue open till June 30th. The new Sa-
Ion of the National Society of Fine Arts
will be held in the exhibition building on
the Champ de Mars.
The first prize of $500 for the Grant
monument at Washington has been won
by Messrs. Cluss & Schulz of that CITY. Mr..
Cluss, a native of Wirtemburg, is now one
of the Government Inspectors of Public
Buildings. Paul Schulz, native of Bres-
Ian, was draughtsman in his Office and
became his partner.
The pupils in the Sacramento School of
Design have formed an Art Improvement
and Social Society. 1t is an excellent
movement. The pupils, by study of good
treatises on designing and art in general,
by exchange of views and social commune
cation can greatly benefit themselves and
make their lives that much the more sat-
isfactory and successful.
The Austrian sculptor, Friedrich Beer,
in Paris, has discovered process for max
ing marble fluid and molding 1t as bronze
is nodded. The name of the marble thus
treated is beryt. The new product costs
little more than plaster, and is especially
well adapted to the ornamentation of
houses and the construction of floors, baths
and small pillars. A stock company has
been organized in Paris to place beryt on
the market.
At his studio, in West Eleventh street,
New York, the sculptor Daniel c. French
has just cast from the clay in plaster, prior
to putting in bronze, his colossal statue of
Thomas Starr King, the famous Union
agitator and Unitarian clergyman. The
statue, which with its pedestal of granite,
designed by c. Howard Walker, the Bos-
TON, 10 =
the result of a popular subscription and
will be set up in the Golden Gate Park.
There has recently died in Paris in his
sixty-fourth year, Alexandra Paul Protals,
a celebrated battle painter, and the pre-
cursor in this branch of art of NeuyIlle
and Detallie. His "Battle of Inkerman,"
the "Mamelon Vert" "Duty" and the
"Death of Colonel Brancion," were exhib-
tied in the salon of 1857. Protals went
out to the Crimea with General Bosquet,
and besides his larger pictures he has left
several valuable studies of the campaign.
In 1859 he visited Italy with General Lad
mirault, and in 1868 exhibited the results
of his studies in "The Bivouac,n the
"Night Of Solferino" and other pictures.
A sale of the late Arthur Quarterly's
works recently held in New York was a
success in financial way, eighty works
bringing Sl3,54O. The highest price,
81, ,450, was paid for the last work sold, the
Summer Morning-Isle of Shoals" 1t
was bought for the Union League Club of
New York by Thomas B. Clark, Chair
man of the Art Committee of that iustitu-
ton. The next highest price, $1,000, was
paid for English Channel, off Hastings
and the sport of New York-Queen's
Birthday" was sold cheap at 81 900 to
Frederick Layton for the Milwaukee Art
Gallery. Mr.. Layton also bought, for
$500, plymouth Fishing Boats at
Anchor"
Poor Ruskin! 1t seems that his hyper
sensitiveness has suffered in his mental
arrangement singular reaction, if the
following story is to be believed: A New
York gentleman, who knew Mr.. Ruskin
well, says that he has for some time past
shown in his speech and conduct brutali-
ties that were in sad contrast with his
usual gentleness, kindness and refinement.
On one occasion he climbed knoll to
view the landscape, when the hired guard,
as if to excuse his presence, made pre-
text of an errand to cross the field, and as
he passed Mr.. Ruskin he said, cheerily,
"Fine day, sir, for 'arvesting." The SEN
sibilities of the critic were wounded by
the dialect, and he answered rudely and
promptly, "Go to hades and ge. an H.
Boston Herald.