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The fifteenth summer exhibition comprised 

 nearly 500 works, including noteworthy figure- 

 pieces and portraits and good landscapes and ma- 

 rines. Mr. Sargent contributed two portraits, 

 Mrs. Garrett Anderson and the Duke of Portland. 

 Mr. Watts sent four pictures, one of which is 

 entitled Greed and Labor, allegorical figures 



frandly and broadly treated. A second, The 

 lumber of the Ages, represents a weary woman 

 with her head thrown back asleep, holding in her 

 arms a wondering child. Trifles Light as Air, a 

 third canvas, represents a swarm of amorini, 

 naked baby shapes, swaying and drifting in air 

 against a sky of delicate blue and gold, like a 

 cloud of insects. 



Sir George Reid, the antithesis of Mr. Sargent, 

 contributed a full-length portrait of the Earl of 

 Stair, standing, cane in hand, by an ivy-covered 

 wall. 



J. J. Shannon's Lady Carbery and her Children 

 is a happy effort in decorative portraiture, and 

 the Hon. John Collier's Rudyard Kipling is a con- 

 scientious attempt to represent the writer as he 

 sees him. Mrs. Evelyn de Morgan sent several 

 pictures suggestive of Burne-Jones, and G. H. 

 Boughton a Diana of the Goose Pastures, with 

 jet-black hair seen against the fresh green of wil- 

 lows. 



London: Guildhall. An exhibition of some 

 200 works by Spanish artists was collected at the 

 Guildhall by the director of the City Art Gallery, 

 including 39 pictures attributed to Velasquez. 

 Among the latter were the Water-Carrier of Se- 

 ville, the Marquis of Bristol's portrait of Don 

 Balthazar Carlos when seven years old, the King's 

 portrait of Don Carlos, the Duke of Wellington's 

 half-length of Pope Innocent X, the Duke of Dev- 

 onshire's Lady with a Mantilla, and Captain Hoi- 

 ford's full-length portrait of Olivares. Among 

 famous Fortunys shown was the well-known Se- 

 lection of a Model. Pradilla's Boabdil Surrender- 

 ing the Keys of Granada, Alvarez's Seat of Philip 

 II, lent by the Emperor of Germany, and examples 

 of Madrazo and other noted modern artists were 

 also shown. 



London: Miscellaneous. The picture sales of 

 1901 were remarkable for the sale of Hoppner's 

 portrait of Lady Louisa Manners, afterward 

 Countess of Dysart, for the large sum of 14,752 

 10s., the highest price ever paid for a single pic- 

 ture at a public auction in England, though Ra- 

 phael's Madonna dei Candelabri was bought in 

 at the Novar sale in 1878 for 20,475. Lady 

 Manners is represented in this beautiful work in 

 peasant costume, with a straw bonnet tied under 

 the chin, standing against a pleasing landscape 

 background. Hoppner's full-length portrait of 

 Mrs. Farthing also was sold at the same sale 

 for 8,400. A remarkable portrait of Louisa, 

 Duchess of St. Albans, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 

 fetched 1,680. 



At the sale of the pictures of the late Mr. Al- 

 fred Buckley, an original sketch by Rubens for 

 the famous altar-piece in Antwerp Cathedral, was 

 sold for 3,360. It is a triptych, the center of 

 which shows the cross of Christ raised by seven 

 men, with a group of Roman soldiers and the two 

 thieves, one on the cross, in the background. On 

 the left wing are soldiers on horseback and the 

 two thieves being led to crucifixion, while on the 

 right are St. Mary and St. Joseph with five other 

 figures. 



At the sale of the collection of Mr. Arthur Kay, 

 an Annunciation by Andrea da Solario, signed 

 and dated 1506, was sold for 2,100. A Philip IV 

 in armor, with lace collar, by Velasquez, brought 

 997 10s. 



At a sale of pictures from various collections, 

 some reached remarkable piiiv,., ,i , >i unicrhout 

 llobbema's A View of ;i Woody ( ountry, inter- 

 spersed with houses, which Inon-ir U'.i.Si'U. An- 

 other Hobbi'ina, a typical \ill.i^' i;|, a 

 church and a country inn, brou^ii 1 , '^..\-,^ lo.v. 

 Other good prices were: Murillo, .Poi-lr^k oi I'IMJ 

 Artist, 2,730; Gainsborough, Airs, lluihim, ),- 

 8G9; Isaac Henrique Sequeira, M. 1)., k-l;17>~i . ;-ii- 

 Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Willett, 1,701; Sjuin; 

 Musters, 1,680. J. de Mabuse, Jucquiline <ic 

 Bourgogne when a Child, 2,520; (J. liomney, 

 Mrs. Dorothy Champion Crespigny, 5,880. 



A portrait by Gainsborough of Mrs. Palmer, 

 nee Gascoigne, was sold in July for 2,047 10s. 



At the Cunliff'e Brooks sale, a fine Raeburn, rep- 

 resenting a boy in a loose white shirt holding a 

 basket of cherries, was sold for 2,100. 



New York: National Academy of Design. 

 The council consists of the following: President, 

 Frederick Dielman; Vice-President, J. G. Brown; 

 Corresponding Secretary, H. W. Watrous; Record- 

 ing Secretary, George H. Smillie; Treasurer, 

 Lockwood De Forest; Francis C. Jones, J. Carroll 

 Beckwith, J. C. Nicoll, B. West Clinedinst, C. Y. 

 Turner, H. Siddons Mowbray. The academy num- 

 bers 92 academicians and 62 associates. 



The seventy-sixth annual exhibition (Jan. 5 to 

 Feb. 2), held 'in the galleries of the Fine Arts So- 

 ciety, contained 285 numbers, of which 272 were 

 paintings. The annual prizes were awarded as 

 follow: The Thomas B. Clarke prize of $300, for 

 the best American figure composition, to William 

 Fair Kline, for his The Flight into Egypt; the 

 first Julius Hallgarten prize ($300) to W. Elmer 

 Schofield, for his Winter Evening; the second 

 Hallgarten prize ($200) to Clara T. McChesney, 

 for her A Good Story; the third Hallgarten prize 

 ($100) to Matilda Browne, for her Repose; the 

 Norman W. Dodge prize of $300, for the best 

 picture painted in the United States by a woman, 

 to Mary Theresa Hart for her Portrait of James 

 M. Hart; and the Inness Gold Medal, for the best 

 landscape in the exhibition, to Bruce Crane for his 

 The Golden Grain. 



The seventy-sixth exhibition, though smaller 

 than some preceding ones, showed a distinct ad- 

 vance in merit. Among the noteworthy pictures 

 were Horatio Walker's Plowing the First Gleam, 

 Alden Weir's New England Village, James D. 

 Smillie's A Normandy Barn- Yard, J. C. NicoH's 

 Corbiere Light, Thomas Moran's' Shoshone Falls 

 of Snake River, Idaho, Bruce Crane's The Year's 

 Wane, W. Whittredge's Primitive Forest Brook, 

 Carroll Beckwith's The Hamadryad, and George 

 H. Bogert's Passing Shower Holland. Among 

 the best portraits were F. P. Vinton's John Har- 

 sen Rhoades, R. W. Vonnoh's Mrs. M. E. Porter, 

 Daniel Huntington's A. Cleveland Coxe, Alfred Q. 

 Collins's John M. Bowers, and Mary Theresa 

 Hart's J. M. Hart. Daniel C. French exhibited 

 two full-length plaster figures, entitled Architec- 

 ture and Painting and Sculpture, intended for the 

 terminals of the Hunt Memorial on Fifth Avenue 

 opposite the Lenox Library. They have since 

 been cast in bronze and are now in place. 



New York: Society of American Artists. 

 The twenty-third annual exhibition was held in 

 the Fine Arts Society Building from March 20 to 

 May 5. The Board of Control for the year con- 

 sists of: President, John La Farge; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Kenyon Cox; Secretary, Bruce Crane; 

 Treasurer, Samuel Isham; Advisory Board, Her- 

 bert Adams, William Bailey Faxon, R. Swain 

 Gifford, William H. Hyde. The society has 103 

 members. 



The annual prize of $300, instituted in 1887 by 



