FINE ARTS IX 1888. (UNITED STATES.) 



FLORIDA. 



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The Edward F. Rook collection, sold April 

 5, consisted of American and European pict- 

 among the latter being specimens of 

 Schreyer. Moreau, Madrazu, IIa:ix>n, Villejas, 

 Berne- Bellecour, and Lenort. Eighty-three 

 pictures brought $20,715. 



The Godfrey Mannhehner collection of sev- 

 entv-four minor pictures, by good masters. was 

 sold, April 12, for $48,780. Knaus's u Black- 

 smith Shop " brought $7,000. 



The collection of Henry F. Chapman, Jr., 

 sold April 12, consisted chiefly of good exam- 

 ples of the French schools. Lerolle's "End of 

 the Day " brought $3,500; Dupre's Summer 

 Day." - Rousseau's ' Sunshine through 



Clou.: : a drawing by Millet. $3,000. 



The sale brought in the aggregate $74.395. 



The collection of Herman Herzog, a Ger- 

 man-American painter, residing in Philadel- 

 phia, consisting of 226 of his own works, land- 

 scapes and marines, sold April 25-27, brought 

 $16,515. 



The R. S. Clark collection, and other pict- 

 ures, sixty-three in all, were sold May 3 and 4, 

 and brought in the aggregate $39.866. The 

 highest price was $3.400 for Schreyer's " Walla- 

 chian Teamsters resting." 



The Boston Art Club's thirty-seventh exhi- 

 bition, (January 13 to February 11), consisted 

 chiefly of portraits and landscapes. 



The studio properties of Leon y Escosura, 

 with many pictures by himself, and some at- 

 tributed "old masters," sold at the Buchen 

 Art Galleries, New York, brought in the ag- 

 gregate $116,667. Forty-one pictures by the 

 artist sold for $20.145 ; the " old masters '' for 

 $21.117. ' .re and tffe Dragon," at- 



tributed to Raphael, was withdrawn for want 

 of an $8,000 bid. 



Among the pictures exhibited in New York 

 during the past year were twenty-one large 

 canvases by the French painter Paul Philippo- 

 teaux, illustrative of the civil war and of Gen. 

 Grant's career ; " The Right of Way," and sev- 

 eral cattle pieces, by Mrs. Emily J. Lakey, a 

 pupil of Van Marcke ; about a hundred pict- 

 ures by the Russian painter Vassili Yerest- 

 chagin, chiefly of subjects connected with the 

 -Turkish War and the Indian mutiny, and 

 of scenes in Turkistan (previously exhibited in 

 Vienna, Paris, London, and other European 

 cities). Delacroix's " Les Convulsionnaires de 

 T?.n_ r < 1838). was exhibited by Knoed- 



M t. W. T. Walters. Baltimore. 

 Munkacsy's " Christ on Calvary." exhibited 

 in Xew York last year, has been bought by 

 John Wannamaker, Philadelphia, for more than 

 $100.000. 



A bronze statue of Garibaldi, by Giovanni 

 Turini, was unveiled, June 4, in Washington 

 Square. Xew Y'>rk. The figure is 8 feet 10 

 inches high, and stands on a granite pedes- 

 tal 14 feet 6 inches high. It was erected by 

 popular subscription bv Italian residents at a 

 cost of $10,000. 



A bronze equestrian statue, heroic size, of 



Gen. Israel Putnam, was nnveiled at Brooklyn, 

 Conn., June i4. 



A bronze statue of Josiah Bartlett, the first 

 signer of the Declaration of Independence, the 

 work of Karl Gerhardt, was dedicated July 4, 

 at Amesbury, Mass. 



The monument to Francis Scott Key, author 

 of the ''Star Spangled Banner," the gift of the 

 late James Lick, was unveiled, July 4, :r 

 Francisco. It is of bronze, executed in Rome 

 by W. W. Story. 



A >tatue of Sergeant William Jasper, the hero 

 of Fort Moultrie in the Revolutionary War. 

 the work of Alexander Doyle, was unveiled. 

 February 22. at Savannah, Ga. 



Among many statues and monuments erected 

 at Gettysburg during the year was a bronze 

 figure of heroic size, of Gen. Warren, by Karl 

 Gerhardt. 



A statue of Richard Stockton, in marble, and 

 of Gen. Philip Kearney, in bronze, were placed. 

 August 21. by the State of New Jersey, in the 

 old Hall of Representatives, Washington. 



A bronze statue of William II. Seward was 

 erected at Auburn, N. Y., in October. It is 

 by Walter G. Robinson. 



A bronze statue of Longfellow, by Frank- 

 lin Simmons, was unveiled at Portland, Me., 

 September 2:"'. 



FLORIDA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Edward A. Perry. Democrat; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Milton H. Mabry ; Secretary of 

 State, John L.Crawford; Treasurer, Edward 

 S. Crill; Comptroller, William D. Barnes : At- 

 torney-General, Charles M. Cooper; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction. Albert J. Rus- 

 sell : Commissioner of Lands and Immigration, 

 Charles L. Mitchell : Chief-Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Augustus E. Maxwell ; Associate 

 Justices, George P. Raney and R. B. Van Valk- 

 enburgh, who died on August 1, and was suc- 

 ceeded by H. L. Mitchell by appointment of 

 the Governor. He had already been nomi- 

 nated to succeed Judge Van Valkenburgh, by 

 the Democratic State Convention held in May, 

 and was elected in November. 



Finance*. At the beginning of 1887 there 

 was a balance in the State treasury of > 



'.. The receipts during the year from all 

 sources were $535,871.65, and the expenditures 

 : 20.26. leaving a balance of $110,646. "2 

 at the close of the year. The largest receipts 

 were from the license tax. $130.42u.2S. and 

 the State tax on propert; -<.07. The 



expenditures include $149.470.43 for jurors and 

 witnesses, $79,954. for interest on the public 

 debt, $70,000 for legislative expenses. $34.,5:>1.- 

 10 for care of the insane, $36,639 for judicial 

 salaries, and $21, 875 for executive salaries. 



There was no change in the State debt dur- 

 ing the year, but about $10,000 of State bonds 

 representing the debt were added to the sink- 

 ing-fund, and the same amount to the school 

 fund. The amount of State bonds held by in- 

 dividuals was thus reduced from $430,700 at 



