New-York tribune., 1898-11-21
FOREIGN ART NOTES.
NEWS FROM LONDON AND PARIS-MR
WH1STLER'S LATEST PORTRAIT
ANECI. OTES OF PUVIS DE
CHANANNES

ANECA CIES OF' PUNIS DE
CHAVANNES
The British Museum is exhibiting this month
its splendid collection Of Rembrandt etchings
and original drawings. Professor Colvn has
been mounting and preparing the etchings for
some months past. and the collection is ar
ranged far possible in chronological order.
None Of these works, which number several
hundred. could be sent to the Rembrandt exhi-
biton at Amsterdam. the Museum is not
permitted to lend them
The progress of illustration from the time Of
Direr to the present day is represented in an
other current exhibition in London. The most
interesting feature of this show is of course
the evidence in the work of the modern
draughtsman Of the influence of the ea-,y illus
traitors
An exhibition not dissmilar in character Is
that Of the London Sketch Club the members
Of which meet on one evening in every week
from October TO May. and execute within a lin
ited time an illustration of a given subject
These hasty sketches arc to be exhibited twice
a year. together with drawings made for repro
duction in books and periodicals.
The eighth exhibition of the Society Of Por-
trait Painters now open at the Grafton Gallery
in London, contains new ful-length life-size
portrait by Mr.. Whistler-somethng which in
these days is rarity. The subject is woman,
Miss May Alexander and the picture is de-
scribed as a shadowy dream gray and kin
dred sober hues. A deeper color comes in pot
of enamelled earthenware from which spring
yellowng ferns Of delicatey varied It's In
the exhibition some bronzcs OF NJ.
Rodin. of them being the bust of w. E.
Henley.
Mr. Holman Hunt has contributed to the cur
rent exhibition of the Royal Society Of British
Artists the original study (made many years
ago but only lately completely of his picture
May Morning on Magdalen Tower" 1t is
highly decorative work, representing a group of
singers hailing the suns uprising from the
beautiful old oxford college. 1t is set in a cir
cular frame of beaten copper made in pamas-
Gus.
The Dore pictures which have teen pain
fully travelling about this country for the last
eight years have returned uninjured to their
old London home in Bondst During the twen-
ty-one years in which this ! re gallery re-
mained open. it is estimated that two and
half millions of people visited II.
II intimacy with the features and character
good portrait, we are justified in expecting from
the venerable c. F. Watts a striking statue Of
Tennyson The poet often sat to the artist,
and there are in existence at least six paintings
as the result Of these sittings. The only scup-
tor to whom Tennyson ever sat was Woolner.
He posed 10 him for medaOns or busts at five
different dates ranging from 1880 to 1913.
At the exhibition of the Society OF Oil Paint
ers MI Watts is showing a picture in light
vein which he calls In the Land OF Weiss -ncht-
wo" 1t represents two little winged baby fig
ures of innocent and bewilGered aspect, stand
ing side by side in a glowing afiuence Of color.
The Earl of Crawford. president Of the Royal
Photographic Society has made the formai
suggestion that Government establishment
connected with the various British museums
should be created to make accessible by means
of photography objects OF great general inter |
est treasured therein Such department would
soon no doubt be self-supporting, for there are !
many glorious rarities owned by the nation |
which millions of people only through |
such reproductions.
The commission for the statue cf Mr. Glad
stone which is to be placed in the houses ol
Parliament has been awarded to Mr.. +. w. |
pomerov This news is only moderately inspir- |
iting Mr. Pomeroy is a careful workmanlike |
sculptor but thoroughly commonplace. and the
statue Of Gladstone he produces is likely to he