New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-12
MUSEUM BUYS WHISTLER
V. G. Fischer Presents Portraits
by Lawrence and Raeburn.
MORGAN LENDS ANTIQUES
Many Other Additions to the Col
lection by Gift and
Purchase.

Two portraits Of the English school. one
by Sir Thomas Lawrence and the other by
Sir Henry Raeburn and Whistler canvas
were three Of the most important paintings
acquired last month by the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art
The Lawrence portrait is that Of John
Julius Angerstein, and the Raeburn a por-
trait OF DR.. Joseph Black. Both were pre-
scented TO the museum by Victor G. Fischer
Dr. Black was an important chemist OF the
eighteenth century. and was the first to
establish the existence of carbonic acid gas
With the purchase by the museum Of
Whistler's "Cremorne Gardens No. >" there
are now six examples Of that artist in its
possession. II IL an unfinished work. and
the Intervention Of financial difficulties led
10 its forced sale I'm 1872 with the artists
other effects II was bought at that time
by r r. Way, who owned It until lately.
In a description OF the painting Tho Mu-
scum Bulletin" which will appear to-day,
says: There is room for difference Of
opinion as TO the things represented. As
rendering of tho particular effect OF night
which Whistler discovered, our painting,
unfinished as 1t is, holds its own with the
others"
The Mouth Of the Scheldt." by Jan Van
De Cappelle, was also bought The picture
was formerly in the I4abouchere and the
Griffith collections, and was shown at the
old Masters exhibition at tho ROYAL hcad-
emy in 1910.
Rodman Wanamaker presented The
Toilet" q canvas by Frederick C. Frieseke.
young American painter. Another exam
PIE to be added TO the American school
through the gift of "a number of friends OF
the artist was a landscape, Clearing
or" by Mrs Charlotte r. Conan. The
.ift was made through Mrs H. Butter
worth.
The Harp Player by Kenyon Cox, and
four predella panels, scenes from the life
Of Saint Lucy by a Trecento artist, were
purchased by the museum.
An important addition has been made 10
the Merovingian antiquities on exhibition
I'm the museum through the loan by !. Pier
pont Morgan Of collection Of @G3 OBJECTS
IN gold. silver. bronze and glass. All Of
the pieces were found in France in some
ten ancient cemeteries through the Marine
and Aube valleys Some of the pieces date
hack earlier than the Christian era.
Another loan by Mr.. Morgan is thst of
three alabaster slabs fl bass-relief. They
belonged to the palace OF Ashurnaarpal'
VINO reigned over Assyria during the years
ss5 10 $50 3. c. He had the walls OF his
nalace covered with large slabaster slabs
deuicting himself taking part in religious
ceremonies and in realistic war scenes.
The museum has acquired a Greek vase
~ the tenth to the eighth century Il. Z.
which is considered one Of the most i'm
nortant and splendid examples Of THIS
class, the Dipylon style, known. The vase
,s feet G.. inches high, Of the amphora
sbane The surface is richly decorated
both front and back.
Bv gift and purchase the museum col
lection Of ceramics was increased TO a con-
siderable extent last month. Loans to the
metal work collections were made by
Christ Church. of Rye, y. y; st. Peter g.
Of Perth Amboy. \. j., and the Dutch he
formed Church Readington, n. j.
The additions 10 the library were lV VOL
rroes OF which number 147 were purchases.
owing 10 the Illness Of Dr. Robinson the
d,rector who is now in Europe on a Vaca-
lion n regain his health, the lectures on
Geek arr have been postponed indefinitely
u,hua his illness was not Of a serious nat
ave u was necessary for him to have COM
plete rest.