Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-10
ART AND ARTISTS.
m. JONES, Ssct'y.

Thirty thousand dollars will be spent at
Trieste on monument to Dante.
Verestchagin was 20 years painting the
100 pictures of his famous collection.
Alexander Harrison's LA Vague" has
been sold to the Philadelphia Academy
for 81, 900.
The American painters in Paris will
send their works in body to the Berlin
Exhibition and have section to them
selves
Meissonier is to have a statue, but he
will in 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 pro vide
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 1751.
Verestcilagins pictures, after leaving
New York, will be taken to Chicago.
where in ali probability they will form
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 hos received commits
sion for 8 large picture for the chamber
of deputies in the new parliament palace
at Duda- Pestil. The sum voted to the
artist is said to be equal to $40, 900.
4 "Gallery for British Art, " or a sort
of London Luxembourg, is to be built
at South Kensington, opposite the
museum, to cost $50, 900, the gift of an
anonymous donor to the British govern
ment. He has since been revealed in the
person of a prominent sugar refner,
Henry Tate.
The principal picture galleries of Eu-
rope are ranked according to the number
OF pictures tkey contain: 1. Versailles; 2,
Dresden; 3. Madrid; 4, Louvre; 5, Lon
don; 9. st. Petersburg; Z, Berlin; s. vi
emma: 8, Munich; 10, Florence; II, Ma
pies; II, Venice; Is, Antwerp; IA, Turin.
On the monument over the grave of the
famous Davy Crockett of Tennessee, who,
among other wonderful things, killed 109
bears, the emblematie bear is to have
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 Cincinnati Com
mercial.
The statue Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, on which the sculptor, J. O. A.
Ward, has been working more than a
year, is nearly completed, and the Beechar
statue committee of Brooklyn has ar
ranged to have the monument unveiled
Wednesday, June q, in City Hall Park,
a small tria gular inclosure 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 80 900 have been raised for
the monument. The occasion of the I'M
yelling will be the seventy -eighth ami
versary of Mr. Beecher's birth. -TNew
York Times.
John Deery, an attorney and art con-
nolsSeur Of Dubuque, Iowa. has Just come
into possession of remarkable picture.
which was taken from the ruins ofanO oil
Spanish mission n + Santa Fe. n. Ii. [.
Is painted on wood and is believed to be :
work by one of the great masters. It
evidently intended for one of the 10 ste
tons OF the cross, and represents Chr.
bowed down with his heavy burden, Will
st Veronica has just wiped his face vii.
a handkerchief, leaving a faint i.npres
sion upon 1t OF the face of Jesus. 1t is
remarkably well executed painting a.
contains over so figures. The size OF
picture is by 3 feet. 1t is attractins gres7
attention.