Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-09
ART NOTES.

The Due dAumale paid $4,000 the
other day for Corot's "Concert."
Calcutta now las an art society, for the
first time in the history of the city.
There were eighty-seven drawings by
Hans Holbein in the Tudor exhibition in
London.
A portrait of Mr.. Gladstone is being
painted by Mr.. Bignell for the city Of
Birmingham.
Messrs. Jackson & Sawyer have been re-
selected as instructors, chief and assistant
respectively, of the Sacramento School of
Design.
Troyon's famous picture ola Vale de
la Toucques," is now on exhibition in
London. The price demanded for it is
$4,000.
The late Professor Joule is to have two
statues to his memory in Manchester, En-
gland; one of marble and the other of
bronze, both from the same model.
Arthur Glennie, whose water-color
paintings of old Italian cities have been
admired for years, died recently in Rome
at the age of 81 years.
The King of Sweden has presented the
National Gallery at Stockholm with a
very fine collection of portraits of the
principal royal personages of Europe dur
ing the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turies.
Visitors to the famous public library at
Milan are now shown splendidly bound
volume which Queen Victoria presented a
short time ago. This is copy of the pri-
vately printed edition of those works of
Raphael which are in the Royal Library
at Windsor Castle.
The artist Uhl, of Washington, will soon
be able to claim the title of Court Painter.
He made likeness of President Cleveland
for the Corcoran Art Gallery, and has
begun with the present administration by
painting the Rev. DR.. Scott, the father OF
Mrs. Harrison.
The new Salon of Paris is to be called
the Society of the National Salon, and its
chiefs are Meissonier, Roll, Gervex, Bes-
nard, Duran and Cain. They have al
ready received pet name, Les Societaires,
but the place for their first exhibition is
not yet fixed. No medals will be given.
The exhibition of the new Societe Ma
llOudlc dL L dI1S ID cCb iOI MAY ICtHs Va
eigners are to be admitted by special inyi-
tation, and may become associate members
if the society considers them worthy Of
that honor. Having done we'll as associ-
ates, they may in time reach full member
ship in the usual way.
At the Georges Petit galleries, in Paris,
there is an exhibition of the busts and
other sculptures made by Russian sculp-
tor during the Universal Exposition
Bernstram has made sketches in plaster oi
various outlandish people who were pres
ent with the exhibits from Java, Siam
Egypt, and SO forth. A portrait of Buffalo
Bill, accompanied by bust of Red Shirt
represents the untrammeled West.
"We are sorry to learn" says the Lon
don AthenGum, "that Hogarth's house at
Chiswick, one of the few unrestored relics
of the kind now existing, is in a sad state
of dilapidation. showing, among other in
iuries. a hole in the roof and many more
signs of ruinous neglect There ought tC
be no difficulty in reinstating this little
building, purchasing it, and turning it t
use as a home for decayed artist. Surely
some of Hogarth's admirers will combine
for this end in his honor"
A bill is now before the Massachusetts
Legislature embodying an appeal signed
by large number of citizens of Boston
and by one artist, ]. Foxcroft Cole. 1
asks for a Commission which shall hav,
power to accept or reject public monu
ments before they are completed, and set
tie where they are to stand. The mortu
ary monument to Colonel Case, which wai
| foisted on the Public Gardens of Boston
has reused the citizens to this act of self
protection.
The Press of Philadelphia says: "Ther'
| is no civilized city of its size in the worlc
| in which exhibitions are so little visited
pictures so little bought and artists so lit
tie known. This is in part because tbs
Academy of Fine Arts, which ought t
lead. does nothing to wake up the public
and has lost the place it ought to hold IL
educating public opinion, as well as in edu
eating or attempting to educate art stu
dents. But the lack OF interest in all ar
matters is also due to a community apa
| thetie In art matters
| In the French Chamber Of Deputies al
but twenty-nine members are in favor Q
protection.