The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-26

verting a hack into a peripatetic studio
There seated comfortably and free from
interruption, he makes a careful drawing
OF the actual scene, at the same time
taking rapid notes In black and white or
color OF passing figures and vehicles. He
aCcumulates a quantity OF these ana rom
the store selects subsequently in the leis-
ure Of his studio such as will be suitable
for the particular composition. His PIC
ture when finished ia consequently re-
cord partly Of fact partly Of impression
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The biography Of Sir John Edward Mil
lais. president Of the British Royal
Academy. just published, relates that
during various visits 10 Paris, Sir john
of course, met many notable people
Among them We're Rosa Bonheur and
Sarah Bernhardt. The first when she
grove 20 the station at FontaineDicau u
meet him. he mistoOk for an abbe ana
could not make out how a priest could
be wearing the ribbon Of the Legion of
Honori OF the second he wrote In 1873
after visit 10 her house: "As Ne entrr-
ed boy dressed In white, with yellow
hair. sprang from a sofa and greeted us
warmly. This seeming boy was Miss
Sarah Bernhard. whose masculine at
tire was assumed for the convenience IL
afforded for the practice Of the art she
loves far more than that in which she is
famous She made the astounding dec
laration to me that she hated acting. and
would rather succeed In painting or
sculptor or both than i'm any other earth
" calling OF her painting l cannot
speak. for I saw no completed work. but
her sculpture surDrisel US all snd ftt
little doubt that II she devoted herself
entirely 10 that art she would take a high
place among its professors
Arthur Ferraris. a well known Europ-
ear portrait painter, recently arrived IN
New York 10 execute several important
orders. Mr. Ferraris was born In Hun
gary but has lived eighteen years "a Pans
where he studied and whore he has
painted considerably. Although a Por-
trait painter he has done some gener-
al work. and has exhibited not only In
Paris. but in Vienna, Berlin and other
cities. Some Of his work is now on ex-
hhitlon at the Schaus Gallery.
Commissioner General Peck announces
thar Frank Milet has been appointed to
decorate the United States National Pa
vilion at Paris Exposition Mr.. Mllet
decorated the United States Buildings al
the Chicago Worlds Fair. lie Il en-
route from England and expected 10 ar
rive I'm this country in a few days.
The well known American landscape
PAINTER Arthur Hoeber. is TO hold an ex-
hibltion Of recent work in oil at the
Tooth Galleries, on Fifth avenue, during
the fortnight beginning Noycn'' z,th.
The eighteen or twenty landscapes which
will make up this little display have
been for the most part painted on Long
Island and at Nutley n. J., last summer
and this autumn. Mr.. Hoeber Is one OF
the simplest. most direct. and effective
Of soung American landscapists. ana
his coming exhibition should attract wide
notice attention.
one OF the exhibits Of American sculp-
ture said TO have been chosen for the
Paris Exposition Is George Gray Bar
nards colossal figure Of Pan, which IS
now at the Metropolitan Museum y New
York. II was presented 20 Central Park
by the estate Of Alfred Corning Clark
two years ago, and after much wra' sing
over a sight II was refused, and then def
inltely accepted. When it returns from
Paris It will be given a prominent place
in the park.