Evening star., 1914-02-14

Leoni The lettering Is beautifully done
and is surrounded by ornamental bor-
derS in which little pictures and por-
traits are set These pictures are Won
derful and the portraits are as the fin
est miniatures.
The Constitution of the United States
as set forth by this Italian miniature
painter and illuminator presents a com
plete pictorial history of our nation.
beginning with Washington admins
tration and ending with Roosevelts.
the choice of pictures has been we'll
made and is interesting. Whether or
not the painter was assisted in his Sc
lection and Just where he procured his
iata it would be interesting to know
In the main he seems to have been we'll
Informed and accurate. These panels
also bear the portraits of all the Presi-
dents of the United States save Presi-
dent Taft and President Wilson.
The Declaration of Independence is
treated in the same style-initial let
ters, ornamental borders, pictures and
portraits. An endless amount of pains
taking work is represented-and work
Extraordinarily well done. Who would
have believed that in the present age
one survived who could and would ex-
Fend so much time and talent on such
4 work, which would seem to belong to
the long gone ages.
The artist is a Florentine and has won
from his countrymen much distinction for
such accomplishment. He has executed
documents to be presented to great mu-
sicians and to royal personages as testi-
InonialS and souvenirs of great occasions.
He is altogether very unusual person.
The panels now in the Library of Con-
sress belong to George l. Sproul Of New
York. by whom they have been generous
ly loaned for exhibition.
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DAUL BARTLETT. the well known
/ sculptor. has given to the National
Museum for the National Gallery of
Art life-size plaster cast of his statue
of Lafayette erected in Paris This is
without question, one of the most
notable equestrian statues which have
been produced in modern times and it
will be not only an Inspiration, but
serve as an example here. The plan
is to place the statue In the rotunda
of the National Museum, wherein is
also housed the National Gallery col
lection of paintings. This assures it
dignif1ed setting and a position in
which it may be seen to advantage
Another cast of the same statue has
been promised to the Panama Pacific
exposition.
TN the National Gallery, in March. a
notable exhibition of portraits is to
be held. This exhibition will be made
up of the works of members of the
National Association Of Portrait Paint
ers of which John w. Alexander. Ce-
ella Beaux, Irving r. Wiles and others
equally well known are members. 1t
is the annual display for the current
year and is now on view in the knoed-
ler Galleries, New York. After being
shown here 1t will go to the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh.
z OLLOWING the portrait exhibition
will come in April, in the National
Gallery. an exhibition of marine paint
ings by William #. Halsall of Boston.
Mr., Halsall has for years had studio
at Provincetown, Cape Cod, and has
made study not only of the sea, but
OF boats. The principal canvas in the
group he will exhibit here represents
the Oregon and Is in a measure to
be reckoned AS historical All Of his
pictures include in their composition
one or more boats. They are forceful.
full of the feeling of the sea and quite
out of the ordinary.
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MRS LEISENRING has just fin
4vA ished an excellent portrait Of the
late Mr.. Solomons. which is to be