Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-06
ART AND ARTISTS.


Thirty thousand dollars will be spentat
Trieste on a monument to Dante.
Verestchagin was 80 years painting the
100 pictures of his famous collection.
Alexander Harrison's "La Vague" has
been sold to the Philadelphia Academy
for $4,000.
The American painters in Paris will
send their works in body to the Berlin
Exhibition and have a section to them
selves.
Meissonier is to have a statue, but he
will in a sense pay for it himself, as the
money is to be raised by an exhibition of
his works.
The Art Club of Philadelphia is suffer
ing from popularity and will have to
spend $25, 900 at once in order to provide
space for its members and guests.
Hampton, N. H., has voted to erect
monument to the memory Of General
Henry Dearborn of the Revolutionary
war. who was born in that town in 1851.
Verestchagin's pictures, after leaving
New York, will be taken to Chicago.
where in all probability they will form a
portion of the Russian department at the
Worlds Fair.
Professor Halsey G. Ives, who has been
selected to manage the art department of
the Worlds Fair, has been connected
with Washington University School of
Fine Arts for II years.
NJ. Munkacsy hiss received commits
sion for large picture, for the chamber
of deputies in the new parliament palace
at Buda-Pesth. The sum voted to the
artist is said to be equal to $4,000.
A Gallery for British Art, or a sort
of London Luxembourg, is to be built
at South Kensington, opposite the
museum, to cost 100000, the gift of an
anonymous donor to the British govern
ment He has since been revealed in the
person Of a prominent sugar retiner,
Henry Tate.
The principal picture galleries of Eu-
rope are ranked according to the number
of pictures they contain: 1, Versailles; 2,
Dresden, s. Madrid; 4, Louvre; s, Lon
dons 6. ST. Petersburg; z, Berlin; s, vi
cnnas Q, Munich; 10, Florence; II, Ma
pies; H. Venice; 10, Antwerp; ID, Turin.
On the monument over the grave of the
famous Davy Croc EFT of Tennessee, who,
among other wonderful things, killed los
bears, the emblematic bear is to have a
conspicuous place. But we do not see
that any arrangement has been made for
the historic coon, which gracefully came
down from the tree when Colonel Davy
appeared, without waiting for him to use
ammunition on shot. II Cincinnati Com
mercial
The statue of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, on which the sculptor, j. Q. A.
Ward, has been working more than a
year, is nearly completed, and the Beecher
statue committee of Brooklyn has ar
ranged to have the monument unveiled
Wednesday, June "a, in City Hall Park
small triangular Enclosure facing the
City Hall at Court and Fulton streets.
The monument is finished, except the
bronze casting of two of the four auxil
larry figures. The pedestal is finished
More than $4,000 have been raised fol
the monument. The occasion of the un.
yelling will be the seventy-eighth ami
versary of Mr.. Beecher's BIRTH New
York Times.
John Deery, an attorney and art con.
noisseur of Dubuque, Iowa, has just come
into possession of a remarkable picture
which was taken from the ruins of an ole
Spanish mission near Santa Fe, N. NJ L
is painted on wood and is believed to be
work by one of the great masters. 1t il
evidently intended for one of the 10 sta
tons of the cross, and represents Chris
bowed down with his heavy burden, whil
st. Veronica has just wiped his face will
a handkerchief, leaving a faint impress
sion upon it of the face of Jesus. 1t is
remarkably well executed painting an,
contains over 80 figures. The size of tn
picture is 8 by 3 feet. 1t is attracting grea
attention.