Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-09
ART NOTES.

A portrait of the Confederate General
G. E. Pickett, painted by Mrs. A. Jen,
nings, of Washington, has been presented
to the Pickett Camp of Veterans at Rich
mond, Va.
Ford MADDOX Brown has begun the last
of his large mural decorations in the Town
Hall of Manchester, England. The sub.
ject is the invention of the hy-shuttle, by
john Kay.
Miss Lander, who recently died at the
old-fashioned seat of Tachbrook, Warwick
shire, England, was niece of the poet,
Walter Savage Lander. Her house was
filled with curious old Byzantine and pre-
Raphaelite pictures which Landor bought
in Italy before the invasion of that corn-
try by Napoleon ].
A Semitic Museum is to be established
at Harvard University in order to illus
trate the lectures and courses of study on
the languages and monuments of the Assyr-
ians, Phoenicians, Arabs and Jews. Jacob
H. Schif has given $4,000 toward the
museum, to be spent on casts of clay tab
lets, art objects and manuscripts.
The Salon picture of Henry Mosler has
arrived at his New York studio. 1t is
called "The Last Moments" and shows an
old peasant of Brittany breathing his last
in a knot of physicians. Mr.. Mosler has
not intended a sarcasm of the good old
ever-fresh sort on the medical profession
in this serious work. The picture will be
shown to his friends on Thursday after
noon.
The city of Prague, in Bohemia, opened
in 1871 the first industrial exhibition OF
which there is record on the European
continent. The Landtag of Bohemia has
appropriated 100000 forms and author
lied subscriptions for centenary in 1891.
The feeling between Germans and Szechs,
however, is so great in Bohemia that Ger
man artists and artisans decline TO aid the
scheme.
The works of Jules Cheret, an artist
who has made name for producing
placards and advertisements of superior
quality, are on exhibition in Paris. An
English paper suggests that exhibitions
be held from time to time in London for
the sheets handled by the bill-sticker, the
object being to secure by practical means
what has been dreamed of by the associa-
ton once formed in London to better the
quality Of posters and piacards.
Visitors to the famous public library at
Milan are DOW shown a splendidly bound
volume which the Queen presented it a
short time ago, and the cover of which
bears her Majesty's monogram. This is a
copy of the privately printed edition of
those works of Raphael which are in the
Royal library of Windsor Castle. The
Raphael collection at Windsor is one of
the finest in the world, and was much en-
larged by the Prince Consort, who caused
it to be admirably arranged.
The Pail Nal Gazette gives sketches of
the exterior and interior of Meersbrook
Hall, the museum founded by Mr.. Ruskin,
and says: 1.-TWO miles out of Sheffield, on
the top of an extremely steep hill, stands
a little nondescript building, half suburban
villa and half lecture hall. This is the
Ruskin Museum, belonging to that mys-
terious body, the Guild of st. George. The
outer world cares little about st. George,
and less about his guild, but if any rightly
inquisitive person is willing to trip
through the eight volumes of 'Fors Clavi-
gera,' there he will find full account of
the aims and constitution of that august
body"
A hundred models were submitted in
competition for the statue of General
Stark, at Concord, n. H., and that made
by Charles Conrad, of Hartford, Conn.,, for
the New England Granite Company was
selected. Stark is in Continentals, with a
three cornered chapeau on his left arm and
the right hand thrust into the bosom of
his coat. The coat is buttoned below the
chest by one button, and is crossed by the
baldric of his sword. He wears epaulets,
high collar and stock, top boots, and a shirt
ruffied at wrists and bosom. Mr.. Conrad
has made statues of Alexander Hamilton,
General Halleck and General Stone, the
latter at West Point. Messrs. Doyle,
Menus, Kitson, Loredo Taft, of Chicago;
Langley, of Manchester, Mass; ]. g. c.
Hammond, of Cleveland; George F. Bis
sell, of Poughkeepsie, and other sculptors
sent models or drawings. The statue is to
be ready by October, and $4,000 is the
sum appropriated for it by the Legislature
of New Hampshire.