New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-19
Sale of the Finest Collection of Old
Paintings This Season.

The Silo Galleries Fifth Avenue below Thirty
nrth street contain a big collection OF paint
lngs BY old masters belonging 70 Dir. Louis r
Enrich which are shown preparatory 70 their
sale at auction IN the ballroom OF the Waldorf
Astoria on the evening OF Wednesday. March.
q FOr people VINO care FOR old paintings ont
their own merits without regard 70 name O6
painter, pedigree, or price attained at some
former sale. this exhibition 81 q picnic; there
are so many canvases delightful through their
beauty or interesting because Of their historical
associations. Picture sharps viii not fan TO-
enjoy It. since Il carries the impression through-
out OF a collector who really loves really studies
ancient pictorial art, and furthermore Includes
pictures by artists OF the past whose work
rarely crosses the ocean.
Along with paintings by artists Ike BronzinO-
Macs. AIignard Sir Godfrey Kneller LEY. Char
din, HOppner, Reynolds and Sir Thomas Law
renee renee We 1 ma very sLrlNlns portraits oy span
CerezO, Bernardo de Llorente. G de Miranda; BY
Netherlanders like Gonzales COques. BellevOis..
Antonio Moro, and Jan Wynants; BY Frenchmen
like Sebastien LeClerc, 3. de Bar, J. 3. J. Pater
P. Valentin, and Robert Tournieres. and by
BritOns Ike Henry stone. Wilcox. John Riley
Thomas Hudson. Camiuus Hone. William Dob
son, and George Dave. These minor lights OF
the seventeenth. eighteenth, and nineteenth
centuries afford real collectors the keenesr pleas
ure. The tirlid man who is conscious that Ia
buys names. not pictures he loves, who VIII nOR
venture where he has no guide avoids thesa
pictures when he sees them under their trua
names. II however constituencies dealers cause
the faces and hands OF figures by these minoE
masters 20 be deity repainted and attach 70
the frame the name Of a contemporary whose
dazzled by the glitter OF the title. pays startling
price for his gold brick
It is pleasant 70 examine a collection where
attributiOns are not forced. and where this petty
humbug OF repainting faces and hands IS not
found. The sterling portraits Of a Dutch gen.
tlernan and his WIFE BY Jan Eicroors are nos
baptized Rembrandt or Halls, vet they exert
their charm under the proper attribution- Vic-s
tCOrs worked for Rembrandt for i've years nor
ordinary man, however. could have painted this
simple vet noble old HOIlander- The stout wifsS
lacks the character shown by the old lady BY
Nicolas Macs Just bought for the Metropolis
tan from the Enrich Galleries which was re-s
produced in last SUNDAYS Times" But she -
we'll painted and expresses her own commonsRi
strain and individuality.
Sir Godfrey Kneller. a Netherlander always
associated with England, appears IN a superbly
grave, psychological portrait OF King William
III, Prince OF OTange-Nassau-i it be permittsds
indeed. 10 mention that detested name on St.
Patrick's Day IN the Morning Irishmen. howl
ever. win be the first 20 enjoy the cold, dis
dainful expression on the royal intruders face
Charles Parneu that mastered Parliament This
half-length in long, curly wig and polished steel
cuirass. so sad or look ana disguised IN expres-4
sion. ought 10 find a resting place In some his
tOrical museum since it IS little chapter o.
British history for eyes that understand
One Of the finest portraits here is by John
Constable. the Euglishman who IN France and
America is hardly known except by landscapes
And the subject IS a rare One-none other than
Dan Mendoza the pUglist- who at one tirnsi
and had his biography printed like n cOnqueror-l
A disagreeahle face Is his whom see por-t
trayed in the correct attire OF a gentleman o.
SIS
either. But how firmly and splendidly pafntedE
From such example one argues that Conf
stable, had he wished. might have become one
OF the grea- pOrtraitisrs OF his time.
Sir Thomas Lawrence without his frius and
patent CUpid's-bOw mouth IS seen IN a portrait
OF unknown lady, whose expression has
something fateful in it-a picture extremely at
tractive on its own intrinsic merits. requiring
no shadow or a great name" Then take ths
portrait Of FRANCOIS MOuChard by TOurnie-es
and observe how this capital but somewhat
hard-painting painter has expressed kindness
and Wit In the old urbane face with its d0ubIa
chin. The Pr0digal Son" by TenIers combines
a Biblical figure IN the foreground with a racy
group or Dutch country folk before tavern
I'm the BACKGROUND. Paters -G5utr0n" is ~fsl1fe-
than the risky Dutch pictures. and has tHs
color scheme oS the school 70 which he be-
loDged- Very lovely is the portrait o. VioIarta
Palma removing her necklace fu a NJ OF ui0us
remuneration, a work by some one o. the Palma
family And what hne personality looks from
the clear eyes ~ the young lady assigned 70
ErouZDO. from Prince S-iarrl-s collection
beautiful is the "TWiI{ght ON n Dutch River
by Jan van GoyeC. ana spaciously poetic the
Such laoiscau5s reduce 20 nothing the claims
one sometimes sees il print that landscape be-
gan with Claude ana hardly existed before Con-
stable and Curo--
-Ee daull, portrait ~ tho Duehe7se De cha
tpau-ouN o"l the C1utesse De FT9vacou-t bv
Natter. was reproduced and noticed in tia
SUNDAY Supplement several weeks ago. IL 3
likely 20 provoke keen competition owing 10 thu
lively interest taken nowadays ir the beauties
or the Court NJ Louis Nv and the inner work
OF the Court painters ~ France Move than Gfty
four is the number Of c-Dvases coming 20 thu.
hammer.
Tor long time III is lesson FOR arr collectors
and artists. The Enrich Galleries sell with a
guarantee 90 return the purchase money for any,
picture which IS disputed by competent experci
authority n the buyer demands TO within one
year from the Date OF saIe--New York TimsAi
March IS