The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-28
TIE TIMES: R1CHMoND. VA SUNDAY JANUARY %, 1900.
ART and ARTISTS.

The one hundred and fifty paintings
which so from America to the Paris
Exposition will leave New York on FEB
ruary 1stt in the United States transport
Prairie, which has been ordered to this
work IS. 49,
Eight paintings from the Academy Of
Fine Arts in this city will be included
{ in the exhibit. @Theysare Theodore Rob
( day Rest in New Eng gland. Homer's
...Fox Hunt, Aiken's .'Cello Player
B the Woman with a White Shawl by
William NJ. Chase, and Mother and
Child, y by George de Forest Brush. ALI
belong to the Academys permanent ex-
hibition There are also two portraits
OF Miss NJ Carey Thomas, by Sargent
Mother and Daughter" (Mrs. Clement
Griscom and daughter). by Cecilia Beaux,
now in the annual exhibition. While the
Metropolitan and Boston Museums have
refused to loan any Of their possessions
for the purpose, the. Academy here has
given generously to furnish 4 represen-5
native collection OF. American paintings
at Paris.-Philadelphia Press.
The annual exhibition of oil paintings
of the Boston Art Club now open. and
which continues until February Sd, at
tracts daily large number OF visitors.
The club has purchased from the ex-
hbiton two pictures, viz: "The Fisher
mans Return tNo. 81. by Edward
Patthast, and Now the Day is Over"
(No. 119), by Ben Foster.
The sale Of William T. Evans collcc-5
ton of American paintings in New York
is hailed by picture buyers as one Of the
most notable sales of this season. CIR.
Eyans has long been collecting pictures.
especially those of American artists
and some of them have become well
known by his readiness to acceGe to re-
quests to loan them for exhibition pur-5
poses. In the collection are two can
vases from the hand OF the late Wyatt
Eaton. This artist, one of the strongest
of American figure painters. passed out
Of the world so quietly two or three
years ago at Montreal that little notice
was taken of his untime end. While
in Montreal he executed many portraits
of prominent men, among them Sir
William Van Horne, the president Of
McGill University, and others. The coll
lection comprises nearly 900 representa-
tive works, many of them extremely
good, all selected with taste. aided by
experience and judgment
An exhibition is being held at the
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, of work
by pupils of Howard Pyle. It is con-
fined to drawings and paintings, all of
which were reproduced in various Christ
mas periodicals for 1899; and the collec-
ton exceeds one hundred pieces-a most
remarkable triumph for this popular and
successful teacher.
The city Of Buffalo IS rejoicing in the
gift from John J.fAlbright, one of her
public-spirited citizens Of $500, 600 OF
more for the building Of a tine public art
gallery The gift was announced a few
evenings ago to the trustees Of the Fine
Arts Academy of Buffalo. and came as
an Overwhelming surprise TO all except
two Of them. The donor imposed a con-
dition that the building, which is to be
Of white marble, in severe Greek arcbl-
tectural style, should be located in the
park in which it is purposed to hold the
Pan-Anierican Exposition Of 1901. He
also stated that the Fine Arts Academy
permanent fund, which now amounts to
$4,000. should be increased by subscrip-
ton from the citizens to a sum sufficient
to yield an income for maintenance. It
is intended by the committee to laise
it to $4,000, if possible.
Fifty-seven Of the canvases left by the
late William j.. Picknell were sold at auc-
ton last week at.the Fifth Avenue Art
Galleries for SIG, 595. an average of about
1921. The highest price was S2,025, paid
by Warren Sherburne of Boston, for I'm
California" the same buyer giving $3.50
for Man in Boat Among the other
prices realized were "springtirne, Anti
bes." $500: 'sEbbing Tide" $500: apple
Blossoms $3.50: September Sunshine"
$3.50: "Lengtlhening Shadows" $3.50; NEAR
ing Sunset $3.50; '.Springtide," s425; ION
the Garonne," $3.50: Autumn. st. Mar
guerite," $50; Late Autumn s21O, and
"Ste. Marguerite tSur A1er),' $500
Apropos of the Vandyck exhibition at
the Royal Academy in London the Times
says: "As last year the Royal Academy
set themselves to eclipse Gthe Rembrandt:
exhibition at Amsterdam, SO now they
seem to have determined to eclipse the
tercentenary exhibition of Vandyck at
Antwerp. The latter was an important
and interesting display. but there is no
denying that it IS far outdone hy the col
lection which will presently be on view
at Burlington House. The strength of
the Antwerp exhibition, outside few of
the religious pictures painted for the
Flemish churches, chiefly during the
painters youth, lay in the forty pictures
lent by English owners. Everybody in
Antwerp. beginning with the king of the
Belgians himself admitted that the coll
lection would have been far from first
rate without them. AT burlington House,
we see again nearly all ofthese forty,
and some eighty besides, together with a
room full of drawings and studies There
are, in effect, 129 finished pictures bear
ing tho name of the master.
The announcement that Benjamin Vests
palrting of 1.-The Raising of Lazarus,"'
which has hung in Winchester cathedral
for more than century, has been Dold
for $500 for the new Protestant cathedral
in New York, has called out numerous
criticisms in England. The dean Of the
chapter of Winchester is reported to have
said that the new home of the picture
will be much more fitting for it than was
it's old place.
From letter received in London from
Nine. NIunkacszy, 1t seems the condition
of the famous Hungarian painter Las be-.
come seriously complicated by he sudden
appearance Of paralysis of the lower ex-
tremities. His mind is row hoDe:essiy
gone, and blindness is feared
Tho monument of BoSsuet which NJ