The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-20
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The Biakeslee collection Of 1853 paint
ings, sold in New York recently, brought
sl6S, $40 The PORTRAIT Of the Duke of
Portland" Van Dyke, Judge S. L. Bron-
son, $4,000; a Portrait of Mrs. Siddons.'
Sir Thomas Lawrence, J. Henry Smith,
ST., 600; Opening the Lock- John Con-
stable. Eugene F'ischhof. $4,000. The
others ranged in prices from $500 to $4,000.
The Society of Landscape Painters is
holding an exhibition in New York
Prominent exhibitors are: Leonard Ocht-
mann, Bruce Crane, Walter Clark, Fred
erick w. Eost, ]. Francis Murphy, GeoESe
Inness, Jr., and George Fl. Bogert
At the annual meeting OF the Society
of American Artists. held April 10th, the
following officers were elected for the
coming year:@President, John La Fargo;
Vice-President, Kenyon. Cox Secretary,
Henry Prellwitz; Treasurer. Samuel Is
ham; member of Board of Control, II.
Bolton Jones. New members were also
elected as follows: Henry B. Fuller, Ed
ward Potthast, Emil Carlson. Fred Dana
Marsh, II. n. Walcott.
Buffalo, n. Y, has a new statue of
Abraham Lincoln. 1t Is in bronze and
life-size, and the sculptor was Charles
H. Niehaus. The statue is gift from
the Lincoln Birthday Association to the
Buffalo Historical Society, and cost s10,-
600. It is to be placed in the new house
Of the Historical Society, the marble
building known as the New Y ork State
Building, during the Pan-American Ex-
position.
The Brooklyn Institute Museum has
just received the gift of a painting from
its president, A. Augustus Healy. It be-
longs to the largest size Of panel paint
ings, measuring Ii feet 5 inches by feet
4 inches. The artist is G.. Belloni, of
Milan. The picture. entitled "N1edita-
ton represents woman on the Lido,
o: strand. of Venice.
A London correspondent writes as fol-
| lows: John S. Sargent's portrait of the
Duchess of Portland is to be the senSa-
ton of the forthcoming Academy exhi-
bition. 1t is regarded as his most per-
| fectly beautiful work.
Then he has also a full-length portrait
| Of Lord Ribblesdale, a figure curiously
picturesque even in modern dress.
Besides. he has pictures Of the three
daughters Of the Earl of Gosford two
being SO vividy portrayed open-nlouthed
l lldl ULc GApeClS 10 near IlleHl$ speak.
It is no longer the emancipation Of NO.
| men, it is the triumph of women which
should be spoken of, says the New Y orl
Sun. Even English institutions can IL
longer be called Conservative if the relega
ton of the feminine be included in con.
servatisnn. The Artists Benevolent Fund
1 which dates from 1916 turned from it's es
tablished custom this year and selected
a. woman portrait painter, the March,
| ioness of Cranky, to preside at the so
| cietys annual dinner at the Royal In
stitutc of Painters in Water Colors
A international congress to discuss thu
| history of the art Of all nations will
meet at Innsbruck in the Tyrol on tn.
9Th of next September. Representative.
of all the great European museums ar
expected to take part.
1 The high value tina t original drawing!
/ by well known artists may sometime.
i give a book was once more shown at tt,
sale Of the Pallet library in Paris las
i month. A cepysof the Didot edition O
j .Daphnis ct Chloe illustrated by Prud
! hon and Gerard brought $500 AZ c.,
of Balzacs Eugene Grandetz witt
drawings by Dagnan-Bouvert brongh
Il 80 S0s an - h a. . !, firi, ssal