Evening star., 1898-10-15

Washington until the first of November.
He is delighted with the region where he
has been spending the summer. and has sell
dom found in one neighborhood a greater
variety of scenes and effects The results
of his recent exhibition at Warm Springs
We're most gratifying
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Miss Bertha E. Perrie returned to the
city with the first of the month after a
summer spent in New England. As usual
she brought back a large number of
sketches in water color, which are full of
the delightful freshness and harmonious
cooring that she attains in so many of her
productions. Most of her work was done
in the vicinity of Rowley. Mass. Miss Per-
RE Is TO paint a miniature of Mrs. Fred
erick Gotthold, a daughter of Simon Wolf
of this city. She has lately done some very
successful work in this field.
Those who are interested in china dec
Grafton will be glad to hear that the re-
Gently organized Ceramic Club of this city
is planning TO give an exhibition of work
in that field toward the latter part of No.
vember. The club has been rapidly gain
ing in membership since its inception, and
has lately received strong support through
the name Of MIR. Frederick Grunewald who
has been making Washington his home
since last winter. Mr.. Grunewald is one Of
the veteran china decorators of Chicago
The officers of the Ceramic Club are Mrs
Y. b. Jenkins. president; Mrs E V Mer-
ril, vice president: Miss Mamie Stone Sec
retary, and Miss Margaret Sharrett treas
urer. Mrs Jenkins, the president and or
ganizer of the club, came to this city last
February from Chicago, and has Just
moved into Mr.. Siebert's old room in the
Barbizon studios.
Washington loses well-known and rep
resentative artist this year in the depar-
ture of Mr.. George F. Gibbs to Philadel-
phia. For some weeks he has been do
ing considerable work for the Saturday
Evening Post of that city, and has finally
accepted a regular position in connection
with it, his work to consist both in illus
tration and writing. 1t is understoon,
however, that Mr.. Gibbs will continue to
send work TO the Washington exhibitions.
lie aims TO keep up his magazine Illus
trating also. With Mr.. Gibbs has gone
Mr.. Mills Thompson, one of the city's
most promising artists in black and white
VINO will do work for the same periodical
Mr.. Gibbs former studio In the Rarbizor
has been taken by Mr.. Glenn Madison
Brown. another young illustrator, whose
work has been attracting very favorable
attention.
Mr.. E. F. Andrews has at his studio the
portraits of two boys one the son of Mr.
Louis Rosen busch and the other Mr.. D. p
Morgan's little boy both of which are
thought to be excellent likenesses. The
figure of Admiral Schley which he painted
last spring has been most warmly appre-
ciated by the family and friends of the
hero Of Santiago bat, owing to the thought
Of Il
from a commodore to an admiral during
the past summer Mr.. Andrews will have
to paint new coat for him in the portrait.
The likeness of Capt. Christoffer of the
North German Lloyd service. a compliment
tary portrait, is another recent piece OF
work deserving mention. Mr. Andrews
says of his summer in Europe that ii was
the warmest he has experienced there IN
twenty years. Everywhere on the conti-
nent the heat was excessive.
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Many communications and complaints
have lately reached the Corcoran Art
School concerning a gay deceiver who has
been going about through Virginia repre-
senting himself rs an agent OF the school,
and soliciting orders for portraits. His
method is to take away family photo
graphs, with the promise to return later
with copies of them in oil. 1t is needless
to add that he demands ta1f payment in
advance, and is never seen again.
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The estate o. the distinguished artist the
late Edward Burne-Jones, has been ap-
Fl aisei at S267, ,+65. Looking over the prop
erty left by other noted English artists
sc me one has made up the following inter-
esting list: Edward Armitage. 81, ,592. 30;
SIR John Gilbert, 81, ,15T, 800: Sir John T. Mil
Iais. s4s5,995; J. l. Pearson, s259. 40; Lord
nte IDA,zs-
$40; Stacey Marks. s46.940; Philip H. Cal
deron. $30,515. Not all of these men earned
their fortunes by their art, however.
Richard N. Brooke, who has been spend
ing the summer months at Warrenton. Va.
EXP ects to return to Washington about the
beginning of next month.
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Mr.. F. ]. Schwartz has been in town most
of the past summer, during which time he
has been busy with a number of pieces of
china decoration of considerable merit One
of these is a tile on which an oriental fig
ure, a woman with bare arms and loosely
flowing draperies, is portrayed. The color |
scheme in this is remarkably harmonious
the delicate blue in the draperies and me |
rich brown of the background being espe- |
cially admirable The tile representing a
fisherman and nymph is also good
couple of other pieces worthy of mentlo.i
are a water-color miniature of Marie An
toinette, painted on ivory, and a large |
show plate decorated with red and yellow |
roses, which has not yet been fired. |
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Mr.. W. H. Chandlee has found scarcely
any time lately for outdoor sketching color |
He has done some interesting monotone
work, however, and has couple of ex- |
amples which show the remarkable del |
icacy and veivety texture which can some |
times be obtained through that method. |
One of them is q little surf scene, while /