New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
Continued from drst page.

Prime Minister. but why should anybody pre-
dict when he doesn't know?
The chief art shows Of the week have been
the charity exhibition at Tho Agnew Galleries
and tho regular display 81 the new English
Art Club. The former includes twenty-five
masterpieces Of The English school OF land
scape and portraiture. There are two splendid
Turner's. painted about 1925. 'Deppe Harbor'
and Dutch Fishing Boats; four Gainsbor-
oughs with The Haymaker'' and The Sleep
ing Mushroom Girl" in the place OF honor five
Romneys. with Lady Isabella Hamilton ana
Mrs Drummond Smith as the best examples
three Hoppners. with William Pitt in the first
place. and works by Reynolds. Raeburn. Law
renee and opie. This remarkable exhibition Is
singulsrly fresh. only one picture having been
shown in recent years.
The best picture in the Dudley Art Gallery is
Charles ". Furse's brilliant portrait Of IL &
FUrs@ which might have been painted by Rey-
nolds. and proves Sargent and Shannon have
q dangerous rival among English portrait
painters. The brushwork is amazing and the
color scheme singularly beautiful. William
Orpen has a large portrait group OF six nguTes
and a dog in Colonel wyndham GUMS drawing
room, and a more modest work portrait OF
George Moore. w Rothenstein again sets the
style OF painting pensive women in plainly
furnished rooms with studies OF high light, and
his example is followed by numerous painters.
Wilson Steer Is good both in landscape and
figure painting and William Strange has a nota-
bic example Of effective draughtsmRnship in
five wayfsrers resting after a wearisome Jour
ney, and Bernhard Sickart and James Henry
have landscapes brilliant in color and severe
IN tone.
S. G. Harvey's drawings are exhibited to-day
ct the Carfax Galleries. Whistler's etching Of
his mother. which apparently did not satisfy
him. since only one impression is in existence,
has been sold at the Leicester Galleries for a
very high price. The bulk OF the impressions
st the two Whistler shows have been bought
Tor America
The correspondence respecting the biography
Of whistler shows how valuable are the book
rights Of this work since solicitors write letters
for clients who themselves remain silent. Whis-
tiers intentions were unmstakable. he author
tied Joseph PenneIl- and Mrs. Pencil 10 write
a biography three years ago and supplied them
with material respecting the early years Of his
career. HISS friendship with them was main
tanned until the last moment and no change was
made in his literary and artistic executors. They
have been working the geography since 1900
and have accumulated a large amount OF ma
terfaI for authentic and critical work.
whistler is not known either to have authorized
any other biography nor to have supplied in
formation with equal painstaking care. The
Pencils qualifications as biographers Of Whis-
tier are as Unmistakable as Mr. Morley's for
writing the life OF Gladstone.
The competition among publishers for Biog-
raphies is almost as brisk as for the best works
of fiction such works are standard and can be
sold for two decades whereas novels Of even
popular writer's written Tor the year and
are fhen forgotten. Inf.