Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12
AIT NOTES.

thomas Ball, the sculptor, now years
of age, is living at his villa at Florence,
Italy, and is engaged in writing his
autobiography.
Mr.. French, the sculptor, is making a
bust of Bronson Alcott for tie Boston
Museum of Fine Arts and a statue of Starr
King of San Francisco.
Andrew Carnegie has presented Bishop
Phelman of Pittsburg with copy of the
the famous madonna de Sisto," said to be
Raphaeps happiest effort. The original is
in the Dresden Gallery.
Dalon, the sculptor, has completed a
monument of Victor Noir, tie young man
who was killed in 1870 by Prince Pierre
Bonaparte. 1t will be erected in one of
the public squares of Paris.
Granet's statue of Alfred de Musset is
finished. On the pedestal sits a symbol
ical figure representing Youth and Love,
who offers to the poet a branch of willow
in allusion to his poem and his last words.
Ten paintings by old Dutch masters
have been bought by the Museum of Fine
Arts Cf Boston from the Stanton Blake
estate. There are specimens Of Ruysdael,
David Teniers, Cuyp, Mas, Metsu and
Netscher.
"Making the Crossbow," by the Tyro-
lese painter, Defregger, of Munich, has
been added to the Layton Art Gallery of
Milwaukee 1t is Tyrolese interior,
with five children and youth engaged in
shaping a crossbow.
A club of engravers on wood exists in
Philadelphia called the Xylographic. For
the first time since its foundation it has
opened an exhibition of works by men,
bers. The President is j. Rhea, the Sec
retary Albert Lindsay.
The gift to President Carnot from the
State Of Guerrero, Mexico, is picture
wrought in gold and silver. 1t is the work
of an Indian goldsmith of the town of
Chilapa. NJ. Carnot will place this Pc
cuiiar work of art in one of the French
museums.
The reductions in plaster of the Parthe-
non and its sculptures, made in Paris for
the Metropolitan Museum under the Will
ard Architectural Commission, are to be
duplicated for the Belgian Government,
and will not arrive in time for the opening
of the museum.
The Governors of the thirteen original
States of the Union and those of later
States agreed at Washington recently to
present to Congress a bill asking for an
appropriation for an arch to stand in Phil
adelphia as memorial of the Declaration
of Independence.
An association in London called the
Sunday Society occupies itself with ar
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to the public on the Sabbath. For two
Sundays recently the Duke of Wellington
has opened Apsley House to those who
wished to see its treasures
A painting of the Confederate ram Ar
kansas, made by Mrs. C. A Reading, of
Texas, is shown in the Capitol of Missis-
sippi. 1t will be exhibited in Memphis
and New Orleans in aid of the Confederate
Monument Association of Mississippi and
then disp sed of in rattle.
The paintings secured by H. o. Have
meyer from the Secretan sale are said to
include the famous Hollandish interior by
Pieter de Hooghe, the portraits of Scriv-
erius and his wife by Franz Halls, and
"Desdemona and Her Father" and "Chris-
topher Columbus" by Delocroix.
Count Pillet- VIII has given to the Lux
embourg collection the painting by Rob-
ert-Fleury called Christopher Columbus
Received by Ferdinand and Isabella on
his Return from America" together with
another work by the same artist, showing
Galileo before the Inquisitors.
A portrait in oils of Sir John A. Mac
donald, painted by A. D. Patterson of the
Royal Canadian Academy, is on exhibition
in Montreal. 1t was presented to the
Canadian Premier by number of his ad-
mirers in Toronto, who are fond of COM
pairing his character and face to those of
the late Earl of Beaconsfeld.
During the Bi-Centennial Celebration at
Philadelphia George w. Childs presented
a silver vase to be competed for by the
Welsh societies of Pennsy lvania. In rec
ognition of this generosity many promi-
nent Welshmen presented to Mr.. Childs
beautiful statue OF Marguerite, the work
of Bezarlanti, the Italian sculptor.