Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-05
ANNAPOLIS. MD. SATURDAY EVENING. july 5, 1880
ART AND ARTISTS

lures named Hartman has been discov-
cred with studio full Of limitations and
copies of Detaille's pictures
A fire in the mansion of Baron de
Rothschild at Ailsbury, England, burned
painting by Gainsborough valued at
e10,0 900, and large quantity of valuable
tapestry.
Sir Frederick Leighton has three pic
lures for this years Royal Academy ex-
hibition: Q) @The Bath of Venus; (2)
Solitude, maiden seated in a rocky
cleft beside a stream in Scotland; CD
The Tragic Muse, a seated figure, not
unlike The Sibyl" Of last year.
Two great pictures by Reubens, now
in Collegiate Church at Antwer.,, ;, which
are rapidly going to pieces, are to be
transferred to the new museum in that
old city. As they added about 200 to
the revenue of the church each year, it
is said this loss viii be made good.
Few people who have seen the bust of
Martin Van Buren, in the Capitol at
Washington, in the corridor, near the
room of the Senate committee on the
library, know that it is the work of
Hiram Powers, the famous sculptor.
The bust was bequeathed to the United
States by grandson of the original.
The portraits of Romney have risen SO
much in price in England that his paint
ing of Lady Hamilton as "Sen ,ibility"
was sold to Mr.. Henson for about $15, 900.
1t was bequeathed by George Romney to
Nathaniel EngIeheart, and has never been
exhibited, though r. Earlowe engraved
it long ago.
Mr.. Boehm's bronze equestrian statue
of the Prince Consort, which is to be the
Jubilee present of the women of the
United Kingdom to the Queen, is now
finished, and will shortly be placed on a
granite pedestal. The site selected by
the Queen is Smiths Lawn, Windsor, a
great park which lies between Cumber-
land Lodge and Virginia Water.
j. b. Whit aker, of Brooklyn, has
painted historical picture representing
the beginning of Methodsm in New
York. Phillip Embury, the first local
preacher and class leader, standsat table
in his house ON Park place, then (176O
called Barrack street. He is preaching
to Barbara Heck, her husband, and
brother, their colored maid, Betty, and
the hired man. The picture is called
The First Sermon in the Methodist
Church.
q. F. Watts, r. A., has been at work
for 8 years upon a piece of sculpture
which he intends to represent Vital En-
ergy." 1t is the gigantic figure of man
mounted upon horse, and the model is
being made in plaster in the garden of
Mr.. Watts's house, being so arranged be-
meath shed that it can be run out upon
rails in fair weather to be worked upon,
and when it rains can be run back out of
the wet. The statue is so large that the
top of the sculptor's head does not reach
half way up the horses leg when he
stands in front of it.
M. de Munkacsy, the Hungarian
painter, has just given private view to
his friends of the immense canvas he has
been commissioned by the Vienna Mu-
scum of the History of Art to paint for
its new building. The picture is in
tended toform the ceilingof the entrance
hall. The figures of Michael Angelo,
Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Paola
Veronese appear in the foreground, while
seated in loggia at the back is Pope
Julius III, inspecting the plans of the
architect Bramante, while the head of
the artist himself emerges from behind
a balustrade. In the foreground are two
nude female figures to personify Nature
and Art.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
oil paintings are manufactured in that
city by the yard. The proprietor of the
factory is German, with four sons, and
dealer who orders pictures from them
tells how it is done: II run out of pas
torals, say. | go to the factory and
order couple of dozen. The manu-
facturers stretch a big sheet of canvas
the whole length OF their factory and be-
gin work. The boss artist makes draft
in charcoal, and one after another his
assistants GO over it. The first man puts
in the sky, the second the grass and trees,
the third the figures, the fourth houses
and barns here and there, and the old
gentleman goes over the whole work,
putting a little touches that make the
perfect whole. 1t is astonishing how
fast they work, and when the canvas is
dry they cut it up into sections, tack
each bit on a stretcher, and bring the
lot to me-
A woman bent with the weight of 20
years appeared at the Lewiston (Me.)
postofice few days ago and asked for
a lottery ticket She seemed greatly
surprised that they were not on sale
with the stamps and said in an incredu-
Ious way: -rm real disappointed I've
come a good ways to get one.
Marvellous Endurance.
The vast amount Of labor perforntd by
ze heart 10 keeping al portions Of the