Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-02

movabMy fixed by the uouDio
celebration.
In some respects this exmoluoh Is one
of the most notable that has been held
in this country. The 1act thal 1iuoeoh
lived at the time of Rembrandt and was
a native of the same country mas gwen
appropriate reason for the assemblage or
a splendid collection of paintings pS .nis
great master and his cotemporaries The
wealth of American collections Is 1haoe
manifest No less than thirty-four
nortrsits nv Rembra ndt-more than are
to be seen in any one gallery in Europe
are included in this exhibition. Dach IS
of Importance, but special mention should
be made of 1.-The Savant." owned by Mrs.
Coils P. Huntingdon; THE Standard
Bearer" owned by Mr. George j. Gould;
Portrait of Himself" painted In 1868
and loaned by Mr.. Henry c. Frick:
Portrait of an Old Man" loaned by Mr.
w. A. Slater of Washington, and
..Saskia.'' the property of MI. p. A. b.
Widener of Philadelphia.
There are twenty canvases by Franz
Halls, one of whIch-a portrait of Wilhelm
van Heythuysen, lent by MIR. Charles l..
Hutchinson of Chicago-is reproduced on
this page. Nowhere, save perhaps in
Harlem. are there as many of this great.
ioviai painters works. Van der Hest,
Nicholas Macs, Ruysdael, Hobbema,
Paul Potter, Pieter de HOoch, Jan Steen
cal names to conjure withD are represent
ed besides Others of only slightly less
fam, These occupy the three west rooms
and tLs central gallery III the
new wing, whereas the three east
rooms have been given over to the Ful-
ton df&piay. And in measure the con-
necdofl here between the exhibition ana
the commemorated event seems a little
closer than in the former instance. For,
though Fulton was the inventor of the
training a painter. In about 1856 after
having produced some portraits and land
scapes unaided, he went to England and
entered Benjamin Vests studio as a
pupil From London, later, he went to
Paris, where he remained seven years
and painted, besides sic pictures. great
panorama the first of it's kind shown In
that city. Even then he was working
on his steamboat, which, like the te!e-
graph instrument with Morse. eventually
changed the field of his activities. But
even after he gave up painting he re-
tanned his interest in art and became
patron of the old profession.
Most interesting. in the American sec
ton, is a three-quarter length portrait
of Robert Fulton, painted by his erstwhle
master Benjamin West-a mastery
work-tEough sharing popular attention
are two portraits of Joel Barlow, paint
ed by Fulton himself Through the cour-
tesy and cooperation of the Colonial
Danes OF the state of New York, the
museum is showing fifty portraits and
miniatures by otter American artists
born before 1900. among whom may be
noted Copley. Allston. Sully, Stuart,
Trumbull and Morse.
An important feature of this exhibition
is however a comprehensive and well ar
ranged collection of furniture silverware
glass and the like of the Fulton period
Two hundred pieces OF furniture. specially
selected to illustrate the development Of
the cabtnetmakerS art up to 1878, are dis
played, together with over two hundred
and fifty pieces of plate made by colonial
silversmiths in New York and Boston.
and some specimens of pottery AS this
UNIQUE exhibition, which opened last week,
will not close for more than month,
many Washingtonians will doubtless have
the pleasure Of seeing 1t.
THE Evans National Gallery collection
has been augmented and strength
ened by the addition of eight or nine more
paintings. These arrived from New York
last week and have been placed on public
view in the gallery at the National Mu-
scum. Two are pictures of the ocean by
Frederick J. Waugh. who, by his col
leagues, is considered one Of the strongest
marine painters of the day. after a
Northeaster'' is a large canvas showing
the surf breaking against a great rock;
.'Southwesterly Gale is smaller in dimen-
sions and possibly more refined in hand
ling. but no less powerful In both one
feels the weight and force of the water
and is awed and charmed by the great
spectacle as by the reality. Some one .has
said that Mr.. Waugh has Photographic
sight" meaning that he is able better
than the majority to exactly represent the
wave forms but In all probability he has
what many painters lack-visual memory.
Another of the acquisitions Is Henry b.
a large decorative panel. appropriately
framed picturing little nude child
reaching UP pleadingly for a huge bubble