Evening star., 1897-02-06

additions this week TO the collection OF cid
English masters on exhibition at Fischer's. :.
Several fine canvases. which we're on view
at the Lotus Club IN New York. and coald
not, therefore, be hung earlier In the week.
have now been placed In the rear gallery.
Among these is a very fine example by Sir
Thomas Lawrence. and there ara a nuInter
of canvases by other masters Of the same
period. One of the new pictures is a per-
trait OF lady by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The
subject is not as pleasing as some which
have come from the artists brush but the
position of the hands is extremely graceful,
and the drapery is handed with consum-
mate skill. There has never been a time
whei. old English pictures were so much
sought after as they are now. aud the COM
hibition at Fischers is. therefore of very
timely interest.
MessrS. Thompson and Waring have re-
Gently installed themselves in the reception
parlors of the Arlington. and bring to the
city a very large collection of pictures.
many of them by artists Of international
reputation. OF course. in such a large col
lection there are hound to bc a number Of
paintings of only mediocre merit. but there
are many whicn are undeniably good.
1t is understood that among the paint
ings to be sent here for exhibition on the
occasion OF the opening of the new Cor
ooran Gallery building there are three
oanvases by Chartran, the popular French
portrait painter. who has taken a studio
in New York for the winter in order to
execute the many commissions he has
from American sitters. They are all por-
traits. representing. respectively. President
elect Mckinley, Pope Leo and Mr. Andrew
Carnegie. The general verdict OF those
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is that the portrait of Mr.. Mckinley Is
scarcely creditable to the artist. hut that
that of the Pope fully atcnes for any de-
hci2ncies observable in the other.
Mr. A. B. Griffith has done no work in
water color of late. but has been confln!ns
himself to pen and ink drawing a medium
which he handles with great facility An
interesting sketch which he recently made
OF VIM. II. Crane in his new play "A Fool
of Fortune" now bears the actors sigma
ture.
Miss Caroline Ransom has now upon her
easel portrait of Mr.. Cowles. who was
for some years the editor of the Cleveland
Leader. The portrait is far from finished
but even in its present state is considered
striking likeness. She is also at work
on portrait of Judge Baldwin of Cleve-
land. and will soon commence a likeness
OF Mrs. Judge Ranney. Miss Ransom con-
nnes herself almost entirely to portraf,ura
during the winter months, though she de-
votes her attention at times to the elah-
orauon oi some of her summer sketches
VI these she has large number. and the
walls of her studio are covered with thn
Interesting studies which she made at
Niagara Falls last year.
Mile. 1rma komlosy. who has recently
come 10 Washington, has opened a studio
in the Corcoran building, Flower painting
is her forte. and the thirty-eight oil studies
which cover one wall of her studio show
the result of sincere and conscientious
study of nature. 1t is her wish TO keep this
collection together in the hope that IL may
eventually find place in some museum or
gallery. The collection is indeed fine one,
and some of the sketches are such as
Paul de Longpre, perhaps the best Ameri-
can HOVER painter, would not be ashamed
to own. While Mile. Eomlosy considers
these paintings as studies rather than as
pictures. the composition of the different
sprays is carefully studied and the effect
is highly decorative. Much of her time
now is given over to teach hing and she
brings to this work high recommendatio tions.
having had the Archduchesses Marie
Therese and Marie Naleria as pupils when
she was in her native country, Austria.