Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-22
ART NOTES.

o"mg 10 she oelay In gettlng some OF the
fixtures necessary for the best results in light.
| ing the several rooms by electricity the even
| ing openings of the Corcoran Gallery will
probably be deferredA until nearly the middle
| OF March. This postponement we are assured
| Is as much regretted by the management of
the Gallery as it can be by the public.
up to Thursday the 18th instant pictures had
! been sod out of the water color exhibition
now open in New York amounting to
| about $4,000, most OF the Washington
artists represented being among those whose
works found favor in the ewes of people
WIN we'll filled purse. The highest price
PAID Tor any single drawing was for Mr.. E. A.
Abbeys Visitors, which brought $1,000. For
this exhibition, il may be added. about /, 800
PICTURES were offered, and only Gas were &C.
cepted.
"A commission has been given to Mr.. Dun
bar OF this city to execute bust in marble of Vice
President Hendricks, for the u 8. Senate
Chamber. Mr.. Dunbar made a study of Mr.
Hendrlcks head several years ago which gave
much satisfaction. but confident; that he can do
better work now. he will make an entirely neW
model for this order.
1t is said that over 100000 people paid to
view Millet's "Angelus" while on exhibition in
New York. The painting will be taken to Lon
don IN March and exhibited during May and
June. Then, after a brief exhibition in Berlin,
! 1t will perhaps be returned to America.
BY the fire which recently destroyed the
royal palace at Laeken, near BRUSSELS, tine King
OF Belgium lost over Sl,O0O.OO worth of fur
niture and objects of art. upon which he had
insurance amounting to only 5000, 600. Among
the paintings destroyed were two famous por-
traits by Van Dyke and landscape by Hob
bema.
The electric light bids fair to be used gen.
orally for picture galleries, museums, ETC..
wherever it can be furnished at reasonable
prices and of sufficient Illuminating power. The
enorts 10 introduce 1t in the Corcoran Gallery
IN this city have already been noted. The Me-
ropohtan Museum in New York is now lighted
Dy that method. and. strange as it may seem,
1t Is to be introduced in the British Museum.
1t is said that Mr.. Vanderbilt recently Of
fered Queen Victoria a hundred thousand
pounds for Meissonier's picture La Rixe,"
presented to her by Louis Napoleon, and that
the offer was refused. There is probably not
word of truth in the report.
The model of the monument intended to
adorn the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick
LII has at length been finished by the SCULPTOR
Professor Begas, and has been inspected by the
emperor and empress. 1t represents the late
sovereign In his weli-known cuirasser uniform
resting on the sarcophagus. The shoulders are
draped In wide mantle, while the hands
closSeu on the breast. clasp one the victor
laurel, and the other the hit of a sword, whose
scabbard is hid by the palm of peace The
lower part of the body is covered by the man.
tie. The sides OF the sarcophagus are adorned
with reliefs representing the blessings of peace
and war.
The work of two young Washington artists
in the water color exhibition now open in the
National Academy of Design in New York.
that OF Miss Mary Tiers and Mr.. De Lancev W.
Glll-is very favorably spoken of in the Maga-
zne Of Art for March,
Miss Estelle Fowler, daughter OF Mr..
Edwin c. Fowler of the Post Office department
and recent graduate of the high school. has
lately finished and placed on view at Hough-
tons, on street, portrait of little girl that
Is much admired by the friends of the young
artist and her subject.
Mr. Magrath is painting portrait of Mrs
White, the daughter of Senator Sawyer, and
after its completion will go abroad for a stay of
some time, good part of which will be spent
III Ireland. where the artist always finds sub
Jects to his taste, both in landscape and studies
from life. Mr.. Magrath's picture in the water
color exhibition now open in New York is, by
the way, one of the most important if not the
most important of the drawings there 1t has
attracted much attention and no little favorable
comment from the New York connoisseurs and
critics.
-Four very interesting paintings, represent
ing scenery around Pearl Harbor and Honolulu.
In the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands and which
the United States government has lately taken
as coailng station, are on exhibition at the
Bradbury piano ware rooms