Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
THE REALM OF ART.

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fingered pickers. A. r. L.
THE REALM OF ART.
The sale of Richard Mansfeld's collec-
ton of antiques brought $4,000.
Benjamin Constant, the famous French
painter, has arrived in New York on his
| second visit He has several orders that
will busy him in New York and Boston
some months.
A. Bruce Joy, the well-known Irish
sculptor, is making a short visit in the
United States, and is now in New York
City His statue of Bishop Berkeley in
Cloyne Cathedral, as we'll as his statues of
Lord Frederick Cavendish, John Bright,
Mr.. Gladstone and many other eminent
men, have given him high place among
the sculptors Of Europe.
Josef Israels, the brothers Maris, and
| Anton Mauve form the greatest group Of
! the school of modern Holland, and all the
other artists in that country are more or
less influenced by them, and of these,
Israels at present is my theme. Josef
| Israels, who still lives at The Hague,
where he is greatly esteemed is a member
| of that family whose banished inheritance
| is found in every country, and he is one of
the few instances of Jew who has OBJ
tanned the highest distinction in the pic
torial arts. Josef Israel5 was born in
Groningen on the 9th of January, 1927,
and for nearly the whole of the past fifty
years he has been living and painting in
Holland Groningen is an interesting city
in the far north of Holland, where all the
sternness of the Dutch character finds full
play. Ny own liveliest recollection of it,
during a visit about eight years ago,
| is the immense crowd of men who at
| tended service in the old cathedral. l re-
member rising early so as to have a good
view of the building before what we would
call, in this country, ordinary hours. But
on reaching the cathedral by in the
morning l found it already crowded up to
the door, and nearly the whole congrega-
ton, which must have been large, con-
sisted of men and boys. Possibly it was
some church festival, but l rather think it
was usual circumstance in that old-fash-
ioned city. Even though trained in an
other religion Israels must have realized
I the more serious aspects of life when
| brought up among these staid and strict
| Dutch burghers, the descendants of the
/ men who rallied round William the Silent
TO fight for civil and religious liberty.
Israels early history has been told by
different writers. but the best authority is
a recent work-"Josef Israels. L'homme
ct rartiste," published by j. Schalekamp.
Amsterdam, 1SS990, with etchings and
other illRstrations.-The Magazine Of -Art
In a simple home in Paris, some fifty
years ago. lived Mr.. Bonheur and his poor
family. He was man of talent in paint
ing, but he was obliged to spend his time
in giving drawing lessons His wife gave
piano lessons, going from house to house
all day long, and sometimes sewing
all night. All this was to support the
family, for they had four little mouths be-
side their own to feed. They were August,
| and Isadore, and Juliette. and, lastly, the
one am going to tell you about, Rosa.
| Her mother, tired with hard work, died
when Rosa was about eight years old. The
| children were placed in the care of a good
woman, who sent them to school, but Rosa
didn't like TO be shut up in a school-room,
and spent most of the time playing in the
woods, gathering daisies and marigolds.
So her father thought if she did not love
school she must learn something useful,
and tried to have her taught sewing, but
she couldn't learn this, and became so sick
at the sewing-school that she had to be
| taken away. Finally, she was left to her.
self for awhile, and she hung about her
fathers studio, copying whatever she saw
him do. Then he suddenly awoke to the
fact that his little girl had great talent
He began to teach her carefully in
drawing. At this she studied and worked
| with all her might. One day she hap
pened to paint the picture of goat. She
! found so much pleasure in the work that
she made up her mind to paint animals
only. She had no money to buy or hire
models, so she had 10 take long walks in
the country, working all day in the open
air. She loved animals, and it panied her
to see them killed, but she must learn how
to paint their suffering on canvas, and so
she went to the slaughter-pens of Paris,
and sat on a bundle of hay with her colors
about her, drawing and painting, while
the butchers gathered around to look at
| her pictures At home-where the fam
lily had all moved together again-on the
| roof Of the house Rosa made little flower
garden, and kept sheep there TOR a
model. Very often Rosa's brother would
carry the sheep on his back down six
flights of stairs, and after letting it Craze
on the grass outside, would bring it back
to its garden home on the roof. A. nine
| teen years of age Rosa sent two pictures to
the fine art exhibition. The critics spoke
kindly of these, and encouraged her to
keep on painting. At twenty-seven
her picture, "Cantal Oxen took
4 the gold medal, and was purchased
by the English Government. Her own
| Government presented her with silver
vase. Her father shared the success Of his
| daughter. He was at once made the Direc.
tor Of the Government School Of Design
! for Girls. Orders for work now poured in
upon her, more than she could Do. Four
years later, after long months of study,
F.. She painted "Horse Fair" This was
| greatly admired, both in England and
! America. 1t was sold first to an English
man for $, 600, and was finally bought by
the late A. T. Stewart of New York for
| his famous collection One day, after she
had become famous, the Empress of France
called upon her, and coming into the stu
dio without warning, found her at work.
! She arose to receive the Empress, who
threw her arms about Rosa's neck, and
| kissed her. After short call, the visitor
went away. but not until after she had
gone did Rosa discover that, as the En-
press had given the kiss, she had pinned
| upon the artists blouse the cross of the
Legion of Honor This was the highest
honor that the Empress could bestow.-
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