Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
GATHERED FROM THE ARTISTS.

W.R. WHEELER, of Hartford, has painted a
portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson for a distant
relative of the sage of Concord,
FRANK D. BRIscoE. the marine painter, has
gone to the Pacific coast. where he expects to
spend several months sketching in Washington
and British Columbia.
THE '.Angelus' is now being exhibited in
Buffalo, together with the paintings of We
restchagin. Millet's masterpiece will not go
to England for some time yet
Two PANELS for what is described as the
most beautiful banking room in the country
have been designed by Walter Crane, the En-
glish artist They are intended for the ceiling
of the Office of the Society for Savings in Gin
cinnati.
For the first time in the history Of the Salon,
it is reported that the medal of honor has been
awarded to q landscape painter. Louis Fran
co.'s Francais, the winner of this unusual honor,
is rs years old, and began life as an apprentice
to the book trade in Paris.
COMMENTING on the fact that none of the
pictures of the Society of American Artists,
exhibited in the Chicago Art Institute were
sold, the New York Times says: 1.-THE way to
get the Wild West to buy American pictures is
to exhibit them in Paris or London"
THE VICTORIA ERA" on which Hubert
Vos of London is engaged, promises to be the
most gigantic painting known. The canvas
alone costs $500. and the space to be covered
by paint is 20 600 square feet. The sketches are
made on another material and thrown on the
canvas by lime light so that the outlines can
be sketched in. The work is done by pupils of
Mr.. Vos and French specialists.
CHARLES l. HUTCHINSON, the President of
the Art Institute, of Chicago, has bought I3
old masters from the Princess Demidoff.
Among them are portrait by Rembrandt of
young girl in the uniform of charitable insti-
tuition, leaning out of window: "The Guitar
Lesson" by Terburg; tavern scene. by Van
Ostade; 1.-THE Hall of the Guards" by D. Tan
iers. and the portrait of young man, by Franz
Halls.
THE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, of Philadelphia has issued its announce
ments for the season of 1S9O-'9l and the circu-
lar of the Committee on Instruction. The
school year will begin on Monday, September
%. DR.. George Mcclellan will begin the
course of lectures on art anatomy on Monday,
November 10. Frank L. Kirkpatrick will as
sumo direction of the portrait class. On Janu-
ary 49, 1891. the sixty-first annual exhibition
will be opened. The last day for receiving ex-
hibits will be January II, and the date of clos
ing March Z. The thirteenth series of Ger
mania concerts will begin October %, with the
regular orchestra of 3S performers under di-
rection of Charles M. Schmitz conductor.
A BEAUTIFUL little still-life entitled IAN
Evenings Comfort - the first of Mr.. William
M. Hartnett's works ever brought to Pittsburg,
is to be seen at Hackes. The gem-for 1t is
one-is very small and the work of the artist,
so almost painfully conscientious in its atten-
tion to detail, is on very minute lines. The OBJ
jects represented are table corner, on which
are scattered brass candlestIck covered with
yerdigris SO natural looking that ones mouth
almost Fuckers at sight of it; coollooking
stone beer jug with pewter lid; several books,
one in battered condition; box of long-cut
tobacco, some of the weed dripping from below
the half-open lid; several wax matches whose
duty has been fulfilled a sheet of music, every
note of which is legible enough to read and be
played from; flute with cracked ivory joint,
and. most true of all, an upset meerschaum
pipe the tobacco and live Goals from which are
scattered over the music sheet, and the paper
is lust about to light from the Goals, which
fairly glow in their brilliant color, while the
smoke descending from the pipe really appears
to wayer and shake from side to side over an up-
ended book. Mr.. Harnett is Philadelphlan
now located in New York. His works are ex.
tremely valuable, for owing to his devotion to
detail they are not many, and each one is well
worthy preservation as an example of its school,
He has worked since 1877, being now 42 wears
olG. He is Irish by birth, and commenced life
as a newsboy. He studied in England, Frank
fort-on-the- Main, Munich and Paris. and his
pictures have hung in many valuable collec-
tiong and exhibitions.