The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-14

Many Are SOFIA me ricnn Women the Most
Frequent buyers.

Those horsey young women who buy eaues-
trian pictures OF tho Empress OF Austria must
find it difficult to reconcile tn, dashing horse-
woman of the photographs with tho grand.
mother of the suicide Crown Prince Rudolphs
little daughter. Tho fact is that tho Empress.
now 81 and probably forever disabled from
horseback riding. has not had pictur" taken
for the public since 1857. One Of her earliest
and least known photogra shows her n
young vile in ridin., habit. but "a only hor
head aud bust are visible and she does not
wear riding hat the presence Ut her favorite
attire would hardly be suspected. Her latest
photograph. now quite quarter of II century
old. represents her in court robes and crown
as Queen Of Hungary.
After the photographs Of British royalties
those of German and Austrian sell best. the
Russian next. and perhaps tho Italian next
though there is steady demand for royal
babies OF all nations including especially the
little Queen Wilhrlmina of Holland in
frocks and the tiny King Of Spain In
vclvet garments that upon other than
royal legs would be called kncker-
bockers. The rage for rollectiFa royal pho
tographs which grows here ana il found not
among persons of foreign birth but among
native Americans. takes many odd turns
Sumo collectors buy onty photographs
Of royal tables. and Of course az
ahounding progeny. III. last addition to this
gallery is the tife by. with father and
mother looking down upon tn. init" OF royalty
Those who do not care for babies buy royal
beauties. The Princess of Wales. who no long
er rrcntends to the charms Of youth. does not
show the Entrees OF Austrias unwillinEncss
to ue photographed with increasing years. and
she reaIrears year after year y"at in IT," very
tailor OF this town Loyalty preserves in
a sacred album. l:eiEnnE soyereIsns
are the SPECIAL OBJECTS OF other collectors.
wlIlA slill ,th ms n up h
uitieSt autocrLt to the hnmhlest and most
II uerss ii pv"tenders. OF the latter tho Bnur-
honS and ionapnrtrS are tho most popular.
One very mild pretender. Mr.. iturbide OF Mex
leo. who refuses 10 STIR about his title. has the
:, cd taste to keep ont, Of the picture shops.
There is some demand for his photogre PMS.
bat dealers In sucn i:iinEs say that they have
tried IN vain to obtain it her" and in Mexico;
rast two years than he Bmrpnrss Nesara. the
victim ot tho Austrian Crown Prince. Her
picture in half G"Zcn poses has scid eno!-
mousiy in The unitei states and over most Of
the civilized world. but II cannot he bought in
the Austrian empire. Portrait sellers com
plain that tho Germans alone apons resident
few Of the Italian ROYAL family. though thoy
graphs OF smiling Pope Leo unL the late. rope
| Plus. The FRENCH care little for pictures oftheir
pretenders and scarcey more for those OF
ties are purchased chony iy their iUrmcr SUP
Jects resident here. save when some Trutonic
prnrekin wehs a, hriti,h or imperial German
| princess. when the collectors and public be-
| gin to tn Ike an in teresC III tumperncke.
Reru nlican rulers excite small interest and
| sine" pom Pedro He'd from Brazil no ruler on
| this side Of the Atlantic has been n good sulo
with the photograph '!enl"rs. Eventhr bron2ed
soldier face OF tho picturesque bia% OF Mexico
| is in smn't demand. and ii + only bore there
| il come such excitement AS that OF the lillian
| trouble that the Presidents below the sthmus
are objects Of interest.