Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-17
oF ART AND ARTISTS.

A monument in memory of Todleben
has been erected at Sebastopol.
A bronze statue of Burns is to be placed
in Roger Williams Park, of Providence,
R.. l.
bic sea-beach sketching of late at Cape
May
Woodford Sanders. Virginia artist, has
been creating a stir at Natchez, Miss, by
painting portraits of people he never saw.
All he needs is verbal description.
A new publication called the Art Work
man has appeared in London. 1t relies
chiefly on plates of sketches which are
supposed to be OF use to working artists.
A photographer in Klausenburg, Tran
sylvania, has succeeded in photographing
the shades OF color between deep red and
orange, but not yet 10 fix them perma-
nently.
Hubert Herkomer has recently been
made member of the Royal Art Acad
emy in Berlin. He received one of the
grand medals at the Berlin Art Exhibit
ton in 1886.
Guillaume, the sculptor and writer on
art, who has had charge of the improve
ments on the Louvre, has been appointed
| to Rome as Director of the French school
in the Villa Medici
The work on japanese pottery just pub
lished in Liverpool by James Bowes, con-
tains 500 seals and marks in fac simile,
many hundred cuts fifteen plates in auto
type, and for the special edition score of
plates printed in gold and colors. 1t is a
companion to his "Keramic Art of Japan"
but more splendid.
According to the Portland (Me.) Press
1.-TWO paintings of John de Witt, the emf
nent Dutch statesman, and his wife, painted
in 1862, arrived at the Custom House re-
Gently. They are said to be fine works of
art and very valuable" 1t might be in
teresting to learn the name of the painter
of these pictures and whether they are
supposed to be originals or are merely
copies.
The Rev. Hiram Gee, of Ithaca, who has
already given $4,000 to the Syracuse
University, presented the college with
$4,000 the other day in order to establish
an art fellowship. A fellowship that per-
mits the winner to visit Europe burdened
merely with the commission to make copies
for Syracuse University of "tworepresenta-
tive paintings statues, or other works OF
art in the leading galleries" is prize not
TO be contemned.
Every guest at the Antwerp banquet to
Mr.. Stanley has received an admirably ex-
ecuted commemorative medal in bronze.
On one side the arms Of the city are sur
mounted by the words "Stad Antwerpen;'
on the reverse an oak crown and the Congo
star encircle the dedication lin English
'to Henry NJ. Stanley, April, 1890" Be
tween the oak leaves and the rim there is
just space for the inscription: "The Mu-
nicipal Council, the Royal Geographical
Society and the Chamber Of Commerce OF
Antwerp"
While the question of painting and
modelling from the nude is convulsing Lon
don, New York and Detroit, the city oi
Omaha proposes to have at least the cause
of such a discussion. The Daily Bee quotes
zone of the most talented and scholarly
lady artists in the city-one who has sold
small section of canvas for $500 many a
time, and who spent adozen years with the
best instructors in New York and Paris,
as about to open small class for study
from the nude model. ION small scale,
remarked the lady artist to the reporter
"it will create demand for models, and
mark you, they must be modest, model
modelsl' p