Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-19

On the recommendation of the com.
mittee appointed to consider the models
al n proposed statue to the late Thomas
\, l,ayard, the Bayard Memorial Asso.
citation, at a meeting in the Historical
Society Building, Tuesday afternoon,
unanimously decided to accept the
model submitted by Miss Ellie Still
man. Secretary England was directed
TO notify her Of the aotipn of the asso.
citation and request her to submit
larger model, the approval OF which by
the association Is to be followed by the
formal awarding of the contract to her.
Miss StIllman is to be congratulated,
not simply because the association has
decided that she is tn make the statue,
but also because the committee OF
expert artists, comprising Howard Pyle
and Clawson 8. Hammitt of this city
and Frank Miles Day and Charles
| Crafty of Philadelphia, reported unani.
mously in her favor. From the models
submitted thee were selected from
which choice was to be made by the
committee of artists, with the result as
given above. The models were num-
bered and at the time Miss Stillman's
was selected by the committee its
author was not known to the members
| thereof.
WHO MISS sTILLMAN rs.
Miss Stilman is an American. but
now resides in London, Eng. Her
father, William James Stillman, whose
autobiography is now running in the
| Atlantic Monthly, is noted painter,
/ journalist and critic. He was born at
| Schenectady, N. Y, June LIST, 1928, and
graduated at Union College, New York,
in 1913. He studied landscape painting
under Frederick Il. Church, in France,
exhibiting at the National Academy Of
Design. 10 New York, In 185l-59. His
NEST noted picture Is the Procession
of the Pines," painted in 1858. He
was art editor Of the New York Evening
4 Post in 1858 "a, and again 30. years
later. In 1865 he founded, 10 con-
nectiop with John Durand, The Crayon,
a monthly art journal in sympathy with
the views of Ruskin and the Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1862 he
visited Austria on secret political
mission for Kossuth. He was United
1865, and in Crete from 1865 to 1869.
as correspondent OF the London Times
in Greece and in Italy. He has given
much attention to and has written
controversially about Greek art and
archaeology, particularly the cyolopean
Pelasgiol constructions, which he has
extensively explored. His principal
. works are 1.-THE Cretan Instruction of
lS66-Gs," 1.-THE Herzegovina and the
Late UPRISING" .On the Track of
Ulysses" embodying also an essay on
the so.called Venus of Melos; also
The Acropolis of Athens, a valuable
collection of photographs. Miss Still
man has inherited some Of her father s
talents and gives promise of becoming
a noted sculptor. I5..t
MONEY TO BE COLLECTED AT ONCE.
At the meeting of the association
President Vandegrift drew attention to
the fact that the money fer the under
taking is not accommodating as rapidly
rs 1t Should. The contributions up to
the present time amount to something
like 81, 600, and as it is desired to push
the work without delay, the president
was authorized to employ a collector to
canvass the State in the interest of the
association. 1t has been learned that
as soon as the contributions from this
State amount to sum that will make
creditable showing, friends in New
York City will take the matter up and
assurance has been received that much
assistance can be depended upon from
that source il the residents of Delaware
give material demonstration Of their
liberalIty.
nf IN aso of t5 r.