Evening star., 1897-04-03
A RI AND ARTISTS

| Hubert Nos, the wel-known portrait
| painter. plans to leave the city in a week or
| SO, as there is but one thing that detains
him. This is his work upon the portrait of
| George Washington that he has been COM
, mssioned 10 paint for the council room Of
the clearing house in New York. He has
| obtained permission to study the full-length
| portrait by Gilbert Stuart which hangs in
| the White House. and intends to make A.
| careful study of the figure. When this is
! done he expects to go to Boston, where he
| can have access to the Stuart head there
| and with the aid of other data which he
| has in hand he will then paint a full
| length figure. He expects 10 return 10 Eu-
| rope for the summer. and has already an
| pounced his coming by the three canvases
| which he has seiit to the Salon OF the
| Champs de Mars. viz. portraits of ex-Sec-
| retary and Mrs. Olney, and mis- interesting
| portrait of Max Nogerich. The most recent
| ly finished portrait by Mr.. Nos is the full
| length figure of Miss Gale of this civ
showing her passing through a garden and
| pausing for a moment to pick a rose from
/ one OF the many handsome bushes.
The class in decorative and Industrial de-
sign which was started in the Art Students
| League last fall has proved a decided sue
| cess during the winter aud many of tie
| students have shown great proficiency.
| Under the direction of Miss Sallie T. HUM
| phreys the class has passed from the ele-
| mentary work first taken up 10 the design
| ing of calicoes and oil cloths. and has now
| reached book covers. one of the most inter-
| esting kinds of work. The different stu
| dents select for themselves any book which
! seems to suit their purpose. and design a
| cover for il which will be not only decora-
| tive, but will give. far possible. soln.
| idea of the general character of the book
| Thus a Dutch tate suggests a quaint blue
| and white decoration in imitation of Delft.
| story of Japan. black and gold design
! resembling Japanese lacquer work, and Ir-
| wings "Alhambra'' calls forth handsome,
| richly coored design of a moresque pattern.
| Several of the students have drawn grace
! full flower designs for such books as Talks
| With Wild Flowers, Wood Blooms etc.
| and in some cases the flowers have been
| used III a symbolic way the lotus for
Cleopatra" and poppy design red
| background for De Quincey's Confessions
| of Opium Eater One of the many in
| terestng things that have been recently
| evolved is cover for 'Cndne." 1t is in
| delicate sea greens, and I'm the center is
nereid, whose long, flowing hair sweeps
! down and follows the Undulations Of the
| waves.
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| The collection of pictures that reached
F-schers about a week ago. and is now on
exhibition proved even finer than was
| tcipateI, it included several pictures
| that had not been expected Among these
| the splendid canvas. or rather panel. for it
| Is painted on wood, by Cornelius de Nos at
orce attracts attention. II shows a mother
with her child AT her side. and the face of
| the little one is painted in an especially
| mastery manner. Among the other paint
1 ines that hal not been looked for are the
| examples by Mabuze. Nicholas Macs. Ga
he Ia mai 4 i'm
THE Alchemist,' which is the work of
Bernhard Fabrtius, the most noted of REM
brandts pupils. The study of a Jewish
student by Rembrandt himself while not
absolutely authenticated is youched for
by Humphrey Ward and is considered by
many who have made a close study of the
great artists work TO be entirely the work
| of his hands, though there is a strong pos
sibiity that some one of his pupils had a
part in 1t. The two Holbeins, the Erasmus
winch Is replica of the one in the Louvre
ard the portrait of Henry the VIII are
perhaps the most interesting things i'm the
collection. The last mentioned is remark
able for the vividness of the impression
which 1t makes upon the observer. Hol-
bein has indicated with fiattering brush
the small eyes set closely together the thin
lips and the large, fabby cheeks and nv
this unpleasant picture he has shown ma
the man character i'm It's very essence
ard the king seemingly stands before US
with all his weakness revealed.
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A number of interesting old pictures in
various stages of dilapidation are now at
Neerhoff's, awaiting the restorer's hand
One of them is apparently copy OF Rey-
noids or Gainsborough, and in spite of the
fact that the paint is half peeled off, II is
sui full of natural grace and dignity
Some very strange things happen to old
family portraits. A load of buckshot had
been accidentally discharged into one and
IL is not uncommon to find them with large
hcles burnt out of the center. short
time ago in a fine portrait, which was bv
Sully III memory is not fault the atti-
tude OF the band seemed irexplicable bnt
wren cleaned and restored the hand
proved to be holding a bunch of cherries,
the very existence of which had not been
before suspected.
Following close on the heels OF the exhi-
bition of the Society OF Washington Artists
at the Cosmos Club is another exhibition
at the same place. This exhibition which
will be open from the 14th to the l7th of
April, inclusive, is composed Of the work
of the students of the American Academy
at Rome, and is held here slnder the aus
pices of the Washington Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects and the
Architectural Club The academy which
Is domiciled In the Villa deli Aurora in
Rome is composed OF the students holding
TIE different travelling scholarships and is
modelled somew hat after the Frcac5 Acad-
emy at the Villa Medici. which was found
ed under the reign of Louis XIV The
American Academy was founded rather re-
Gently. the decisive steps having been rakta
m 1888 by the American School of Archi-
lecture in Rome, the National Society of
Sculptors and the Society of Mural Paint
ers. There is but one student In the de-
paitment of painting. George w Breck
who holds the Lazarus scholarship of New
York The Rinehart scholarship of Bal
umore has sent out two students of scuip-
ture, Hermon MacNiel and A Phimster
Proctor The larger part of the exhibition
which Will soon open, is the work Of the
students holding the scholarships for ar
chitectural work. and Harold V b. Ma
gonigle's contribution is the largest The
exhibition promises TO be of very great in
tereSt
Mr. R. lie Grand Johnston is busy pre-
pairing for his annual exhibition, which is