Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-20
CHAT ABOUT ART.

A monument to Richard Jetfries, the
naturalist, is to be placed in Salisbury
Cathedral.
DIR. Schliemann, the archaologist, is suf-
fering from serious ear trouble, but will
not be treated for it, because he does not
want his work at Hlssarlik interrupted.
PuncHs well-known caricaturist, Du
Maurier, lives in elegant leisure at Hemp
stead, near London. He occupies there a
big house filled with wonderful collec-
tion of old engravings and pictures.
The Car of Russia, Alexander Ill, has
purchased Sierneradzki's celebrated pict-
ure "Phryne in Eleusis," for $4,000 rou
bles, and it is to be hung in one of the
drawing-rooms of the Chateau Peterhof.
The schools where our children can be
educated in any of the numberless pursuits
they may wish to follow, such as wood en-
craving, carving, interior decorations, tile
and pottery work, and all mechanical
trades that are capable of improvement,
should receive the hearty support and CO.
operation of all the citizens of our great,
growing and beautiful country.
We should treat art as we treat all other
human occupations, and dismiss the idea
that profession which demanded the spe-
cial natural qualifications, the most ardu-
Gus training, and an all-around develop
ment in its best days, can readily be
picked up without the most diligent study
and constant training in all the technical
tiles of such great, noble and developing
study.
To say that few pictures stand out from
the Royal Academy Exhibition as being
of transcendent merit-as transcendent
merit" goes nowadays-is not necessarily
to disparage the exhibition as whole. 1t
proves merely that there is no great differ
ence between the best and the vast mass of
the second best; and while the circum-
stances may argue, to borrow a theatrical
simile, the absence of "stars," it may
equally denote the relative superiority of
the surrounding work.
Lord Rosebery in his dining-room at
/, Berkeley square has given the place of
honor to portrait of George Washington
recently acquired. Its by Gilbert Stuart,
and is one Of the only two genuine por-
traits now existing painted from life. This
; particular picture was painted by Stuart
upon the commission of Lord Sherburne
and Bates, about the year 1896. 1t is a
picture as well as a portrait, showing
Washington standing by an armchair,
from which he has apparently risen, his
black velvet coat and breeches, with lace
. ruffies at the neck, and silver buckles on
the shoes, standing out well against the
dark red velvet with which the armchair
is draped.
The gradual unfolding of the principles
Of art IN the study of nature is found SO
entertaining that every new step, every
new study and lesson is looked forward to
with anticipations of pleasure. We want
an art university in which the purely tech
| nical faculty of hand and eye, which must
be attained in youth, and generally in ex-
treme youth, as in music, is cared for as
the speciality of the course; where the in
tellectual enlargement shall never be lost
sight of; where the theory of art, its sci
ence, its history, all that is known of its
spirit and manipulation, must be carefully
studied and appropriated, and at the same
time the general influence of the literary
life in its subjective aspect. philosophy,
poetry, history, all that widens and deep
ems the character and gives it dignity and
that purpose which is one of the most I'M
portant elements of morality.