New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-18

1t will be vuy simple In design, but planned An
such manner as to permit the exhibition Of
the sculpture In the best possible light namely in
the open air. 1t is said that private owners OF his
works have agreed 10 lend their treasures and
NJ Rodin will also show the complete model Of his
Famous GATES OF He'll" the magnum opus on
which he has for years been engaged. This pa
vilion will be one OF the very most important
things In the Exposition. Rodin is a great artist
Of the rarest individuality but his work is not Of
the sort that he who may read 1t has tran
scendant beauties, and sometimes reveals grave
defects. To be understood II should be studied
apart. and thoroughly. this special exhibition
will alone allow the public to study IT, 1t will be
one OF the things at the Exposition which no
lover Of art can afrord to miss.
Patriotism goes to the wall we fear. when the
owner OF work Of art is trying TO sell It. A
beautiful and important picture by the Milanaise
painter Ambrogo Borgognone has been sold to
the Louvre by Its English possessor II is said
that the painting is finer in quality than any by
the same master In the National Gallery The
vender In this case may have been Influenced by
the fact that his panel one wing OF an altar
piece, OF which the other wing was already owned
by the Louvre, but It is likely that It was an
instance OF selling perforce to the highest bidder
1t may be noted that unless England wishes to
be more or less denuded OF her privately owned
art treasures in the next generation or two she
Will have to provide by legislation for an increase
In the resources OF the National Gallery the South
hensington Museum, the British Museum and
similar institutions. II IL a matter of common
knowledge that owing TO general agricultural de-
preston and other causes. many OF the great
estates In the country sadly impoverished.
Soon or late the drain upon the portable property
OF the embarrassed families. and especially upon
their art collections. will show itself In serious
manner. Every now and then we hear Of the
transfer of some ancient masterpiece from the
house IN which It has been for centuries preserved
When 1t passes TO the National Gallery there is
nothing to be SAID object to the pur-
chase Of these heirlooms by wealthy manufact-
urers and others whose collections at least re-
main within the limits OF the British Islands; but
to any who follows the sales at Christie's or
notes the private negotiations which fire.
quently reported there Is something deplorable
in the number OF Continental dealers and connois-
seurs who named among the purchasers. 1t
will be blot Englands name II with her
enormous riches she indifferently watches the de-
parture Of one masterpiece after another from her
shores never 10 return. The great Continental
galleries are forever on the lookout for worthy
additions and the Continental governments are
quick TO see that funds are provided. Even Italy.
poorest among nations. is now said to DO making
dehnitve arrangements for the purchase OF the
renowned Borghese collection.
The entire sum Of e 900 necessary for the cree
ton OF the memorial statue TO the late Sir John
Millais has been subscribed. This statue, which
is to be erected outside the TAFT Gallery In Lon
DON is being modelled by Mr.. Brock.
The dean OF st. Pauls is far from being dis
mayed by the furious opposition to Sir w. b.
Rchmond's decorative indscretions In the interior
Of the great London cathedral. He needs 10000
for the completion OF those embellishments over
which hundreds OF English artists and laymen
have grown violently and Historically wrathful.
and he proposes to get the money. He is asking
for It now.
Lady Shelley has presented TO the National Por-
trait Gallery the portrait Of the poet made by Miss
Curran at Rome In 1875 81 was the point OF
burning f. It was unsatisfactory" the artist
told the poets wife. yet luckily saved It,"
While the great tercentenary exhibition OF the
works Of Van Dyke was open at Antwerp last
summer, the presence Of many important can
vases by the master loaned by British owners did
not prevent the frequent comment that his art
would never be fully displayed until all the Illus
tratlons OF II in England had been placed on view.
II IS interesting TO know. therefore, that there WIN
be a grand Van Dyke exhibition In London TINS
winter, to which the Queen and all other hnshsn
owners OF paintings by the great Fleming VIII
contribute The fact is that Van Dyke not only
nracticaly founded the British school OF portrait
nainting but left in the country an enormous guam
titv Of MS best work. 1t is curious by the way
that while the critics are always READY 10 poi' o'
the services OF Van Dykes pupils In the production
~ his own works his standard is extraordinary
uniform throughout list Of portraits almost IN
terno,nable IN length. In England alone as we
have indicated there are masterpieces enough ny
Van DYKE 10 stand for whole lfe's work YET all
over the Continent he is represented In state anu
nr,vate galleries. not only resplendenuy Du' oi'e'
CONTINUOUSLY Genoa will be remembered as the
o,ositorv OF some Of his choicest productions ana
Madrid OF course, has a magnificent gathering Vi
-.ra,,s bv him Fortunate Spain! Her grandeur
hoo diminished steadily through century after CEN
80. h,, Nothing can deprive her OF the distinction
80 noseess,ng In the Prado OF the noolest COL
Ioo,,ors NJ pictures in the world. Velasquez one
,ot,ralIv expects TO find more richly illustrated III
Madrid than anywhere else, but TO the spanish
canital also you must go 10 study many Vi W.
aotost works by Van Dyke. Rubens, TITAN An
torIo Moro Van der Weyden and score OF others
not including native artists. like Murio anu "o'"
good story IS told OF Alma Tadema's keen Cd
starvation in matters of art. There Is painting
Inv Van Fyck in the National Gallery ArhoiHh'
1,a.-o.bal" IN which there is mirror SHOWN re-
eecting various objects in the room depicted ~
friend who said that he knew the picture by near
Tadema declared that he could sho" MN ~
,h,re IN u that he like everybody else, had prop
49,, ,rad 20 notice ION the window sill In the
.,,,,ro " said Tadema 'Hes apple, and there are
.ro oranges on the table. The apple can De seen
a. ,be mirror but the oranges, which ought 10 ne
visible Van Eyck has forgotten some one ha'ie
nrobably eaten them during an int'rrupuoh III Tue
work 4" When the story was told TO Burhe-1oles
nv Fernand Knopn, who had been the discounted
one he laughed and said that no one Out laue'"@
could make such discoveries
BROTHERHOOD CONVENES AT BAL7IhORE'
Baltimore. Nov 17.-The fourth biennial convem-