Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-27


two of Turner'S famous pictures in Lon-
don for $50. 000
W. r Wheeler. of Hartford. has
painted a portrait of Ralph Waldo
Emerson for distant relative Of the
sage of Concord
Mr. Charles C. Coleman. of Rome, who
has been showing the work OF recent
Itulian years in New York, Boston. and
Chicago. is visiting Buffalo. his birtl.-
place.
A portrait of Wilkie in black and
white by j. Faed. was sold at Christie's.
London. the other day, together with
Wilkes study for the Burial of the
Scottish Regalia
The famous @Tinted Venus by J.
Gibson, which scandalizsd the lovers of
Greek art years ago by its combination
of stone and painting. was sold last
month, at Christie's London. for 50. 1S1
The newly instituted art commission
for Boston has put its vso on the model
by Henry II. Kitson for the statue of
Farragut and recommended the mayor
to award him the contract for the monu-
Hent
The chateau designed by Mr.. Richard
NJ. Hunt for Mr.. George Vanderbilt, near
Asheville, n. C., is said to be French
Renaissance in style, and TO call for
facade 500 feet long. The material 10
Indiana limestone.
Condorcet viii have bronze statue to
his memory opposite Voltaire on the left
of the French Institute. The sculptor
Perrin has taken the first prize in COM
petition Of designs and will execute the
work. Noel receives $500 and Steiner
$500 in consolation prizes
The Society of American Artists sent
most of the pictures exhibited in New
York to Chicago. where they seem TO
have fallen fat The critics do not like
them and tie Chicago people have not
bought single one. The way to get tho
wild West to buy American pictures is
to exhibit them in Paris or London.
The English excavators at Salamis on
Cyprus closed their work on May "a.
Many tombs were opened, but most of
them had been r.fed, though one tomb
OF Roman times vi Ided terra Gotta sar-
cophagi A number of headless marble
statues were found, including one of
goddess with serpent in her hand, Coz
lossal in size.
Work has been begun in the Louvre
among the rooms underneath the Early
Italian galleries.; owing to the lack of
appropriations it will proceed very
slowly. Tie Object is to make gallery
to show collections of antiques from
AIgiers and Tunis. For this purpose
two floors of rooms once destined for
artists are to be remodeled into CALLER
les
As memorial of his son, IL o. Avery,
Mr.. S. r Avery has presented to the IL
brary of Columbia the young architects
books relating to his profession and
given Sl5 600 as a fund for further pur.
ci ases. An alcove called the Architect-
ural is to be asst gned to this collection.
Mr.. S. P. Avery intends to make it as
complete as possible in books on archi-
lecture.
One of the finest of many excellent
etchings which have appeared in L'Art
is that by L. Gaucherel in the number
for June 8. It is after a painting by
Jules Dupre, showing an old fashioned
Norman mill. some men at work on
hay cart. and peasant in the foreground
riding toward the mill, with sack
across his horse. The technical power
of this etching is very remarkable.
w. T. Watkins, of Minneapolis, has
boughtfrom the Vicomte G. de Beauplay
portrait of Napoleon / painted in 1910
by Robert Lefevre II the account of
the transaction published in the Times
of Philadelphia be true. good deal of
sharp practice was necessary to obtain
the picture, creditable neither to its for
mer possessor nor its present owner, nor
the officials who comnived at its leaving
the exposition before the close of the
show.
IN fuckless moment the announce
ment of the sale of the famous REM
brandt belonging to the late Senator
Crabbe, Of Brussels, was printed Portrait
of an Animal instead of Portrait of an
Admiral IT would lie cruel to give a
list of the journals of Boston. Philadel-
phia, Providence. etc, which have swal-
lowed the animal. word for word, so to
speak, without giving notice that they
cribbed it from The Times Sometimes
honesty turns out good policy. -[New
York Times