Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-31
ART AND ARTISTS.

l. ne Larry TaTu, ny IduluS IOlleT,
which belonged to the late Duke of SOM
erset, was bought by Agnew of London
for $50, ,450.
The Scottish National Gallery has re-
ceived from a member of Parliament
named McEwan the sum of $40, ,000. for the
purchase of old masters.
Forgeries of sketches and paintings of
the late Cecil Lawson, the English land
scapist, have been offered of late in Lon
don. They are said to represent quite
fairly the touch of Lawson.
Frederick Layton has given to the Lay
ton Art Gallery of Milwaukee large
painting by Erskine Nicol, R. A, called
"Interviewing the Member" There is an
interior of twenty-five figures.
A prize of $1,000 will be offered this
year by the Directors of the Detroit Mu-
scum TO pupils in the art school who have
been one year at work. 1t will permit
the winner to pass two years in Europe
studying his profession.
The bust of Hannibal Hamlin, heroic
in size, has been placed in the gallery of
the Senate at Washington. This is said
to be the first occasion on which statue
has been erected at Washington during
the lifetime Of the original.
| A marble medallion has recently been
placed in the abbey at Tewksbury, Eng
land, as memorial to Dinah Maria Mu-
loch Mrs. Craik) The town was favor
ite resort of Mrs. Craik, and she wrote
"John Halifax, Gentleman" there.
The pretty sketches in black and white
and water colors by Madeleine Lemaire,
which were shown by Boussod, Valadon &
Co. last winter, may be found, shorn of a
good deal of their spirit, in the English
translation of the novel by Hervieu, Just
published by Worthington. 1t is called
"Flirt," but the running title has the cor
rect translation "firtation," the French
author having, as usual, taken liberties
with his English loan word.
Concerning the report of danger to the
eyesight of E. A. Abbey, London journal
says: "No man living has done more brill
| iant work than Abbey. His name will in
future be coupled with that of Menzel as
one of the greatest pen-and-ink draughts-
men of the nineteenth, or indeed any other
century, man who formed new style,
original beyond dispute, graceful and
quaint beyond compare, with an artistic
perception and instructive knowledge of
aesthetic fitness that cannot be surpassed" !"
The August Portfolio has no less than
seven illustrations by Joseph Pennell one
of them is an etching Of the Strand three
are bits between Charing Cross and st.
Paurs, London. These illustrate Justin
McCarthy's pleasant chatter about the
people one sees on London highways-the
poor and the well-to-do, the known and
the ignored. Two more illustrations after
washed drawings by Pennell belong to the
sixth instalIment of THE British Seas"
contributed by Alfred J. Church. Mr..
Hamerton discourses knowingly about the
| sketches of Constable, some of which are
given and the number is handsomely in
troduced by an etching from H. Manesse,
after "a Dutch Interior" by Pieter de
Hooghe. The original is in the Peel Col
| lection at the National Gallery.
The statue of Henry Bergh, which will
surmount the fountain at Milwaukee, is to
be modelled by J. H Mahoney, of Indian
apolis. 1t will be of bronze, heroic in
size. and stand so feet above the level of
the street. Mr.. Mahoney is native of
Indiana, SO years old; he began life as a
stonecutter, like Thomas Crawford. In
| 1879 he went to Rome, and in 1881 settled
in Dayton, 0. He has made heroic
sized statue of Morton McMichael, of
Philadelphia, the Chisholm monument in
Cleveland, the Pierre Maynard statue at
Chicago, and a marble statue of Charles
c. West in Cincinnati. Mahoney con-
tributed to the Pilgrim Monument at Ply
mouth the statue called "Law and
"Freedom,v and is the maker OF several
memorials to soldiers.