Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-03
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS.

That celebrated animal painter, Rosa
Bonheur, is now 81 years old She saws she
has enough work in her mind to fill two
lifetimes
In his dining-room in Berkeley Square,
Lord Rose5ery has given the place of
honor TO a portrait Of George Washington.
1t is said to be one of the only two genuine
portraits now existing, painted from life.
The Scottish Art Rerie,p was founded in
June, 1888, and came into possession of
Walter Scott, the London publisher. at the
end of 1882 1t then appeared as the
art RerieC, but the July number will be
the last.
The Courier de Fart notes with regret
that New Orleans, a city Of 3000 600 popu-
lation, in which the French element is
very important, should remain apart from
the artistic movement of the United States.
Museums are being erected in all direc-
tions, but at New Orleans mot the least
trace, alas of museum worthy of the
name"
a wooden statue of st. Aloysius has been
imported from Germany for the St Alloy
sius Literary Society of Sharpsburg, Penn.
1t is a modern work, six and one-half feet
high, and cost $3.50. The saint wears the
black habit of the Order of Jesuits, with
white surplice and stole. As he died young
of consumption, the face and hands are
much emaciated. He holds crucifx be-
fore him, on which he gazes. The ragged
e1ges of his. shoes and the stuff of his habit
are given with much realism.
Three old masters at Longford Castle
have been secured for the British National
Gallery for S275,000, of which sum the
Government contributes less than half.
One is the painting by Holbein, formerly
called in error "The ambassadors" 1t was
shown at the Royal Academy in 1878, and
is the first Holbein to take its place in
the gallery. The other two consist of a
portrait by Moroni and Likeness of Adj
miral Pulido Pareia by Valesquez To-
ward the price of these pictures number
of rich citizens of London have contribu-
ted $4,000.
Antiquities recently sold in London in
clude a contract written on terra Gotta in
the reign of Samsuiluna of Babylon, which
refers to a sale of land. 1t brought $3.50.
A large tablet of baked clay, with forty
four lines of characters, brought $3.50; it
is dated the 4th of the month Adar, the
tenth year of Nabonidus of Babylon, and
records lawsuit brought by slave called
Nergarlritsua. A satyr's head in black
marble fetched 1895; a bronze dagger,
with sheath, from Etruria, was sold for
1925, and solid AK and hiatt of bronze,
from the same place, brought S167 90
The Chicago Tribune denies the charge
that the critics Of that city did not like
. e1 IL. A T,1c h.
the Society of American Artists, which
were substantially those shown in New York
last spring. The Tribune itself, under date
of June 9th, 18th and 22d, devoted several
columns TO the expression of its apprecia-
ton. One of the other morning papers
could not have unders timated the collec-
ton, for it asserted its opinion in terms
which, by singular coincidence, had been
printed previously in one of the most in
telligent of the New York dailies. Popu-
lar interest in the pictures was Indicted
by large attendance during the five
weeks that the works of the Society were
shown. Only one picture, the large land
scape by Bolton Jones, has been sold as
vet. although at least one other will prob
ably remain in Chicago. The scarcity of
sales is unquestionably due to the lateness
of the season and to the fact that collect
'ors of pictures are usually out of town in
summer. In New York similar conditions
are recognized and yielded to; no exhi-
billions are given, and no one is expected
to buy pictures in the dog days. But even
in the rush of the spring season, and with
the first choice of the American Artists
exhibition offered to it, New York re-
sponded to their appeal with only four or
five beggarly thousands. For .many years
the Chicago exposition has held annually
the only exhibition of American art which
illustrates the progress of our
artists both at home and abroad-an ex-
hibition which has earned for itself in
Paris the title of the American Salon."