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brandt's famous " Standard Bearer," at \Varwick 

 Castle. 



At the sale of the pictures and effects of the late 

 Lnnl l.ej^hton. in July, four fine Con its. " The Four 

 i.anels painted by the artist for the walls 

 of his friend Dccnmps's dining room at Barbizon, 

 were sold tor i;.<>nn guineas. Aluaa-Tadema's "Cor- 

 ner of the Studio" brought 1.HIO. and Sir .1. K. 

 Millais's " Shelling Peas " Tin guineas. The prices 

 obtained for the late president's own works were 

 disappointing. 



At the Ilaskctt-Smith sale "The Cherry Sellers." 

 by Morland. brought 1.000 guineas. At the sale of 

 nut Kvcr-ley's pictures Hoppners " Emma 

 Whitbread" fetched 1.800 guineas, and Gains- 

 borough's '-Samuel Whitbread" 1.7-30 guineas. 

 Among the Thomson-Bonar family pictures, Rom- 

 ncy's "Mrs. Anne Bonar " fetched 1.500 guineas. 

 In" the Angerstein collection, Lawrence's " Mrs. 

 Amelia Angerstein " sold for 2,150 and Reynolds'* 

 "Mrs. Angerstein" for 1,150 guineas. At the 

 Arthur Seymour sale Komney's " Maria and Cath- 

 erine Thuflow " sold at 2,550 guineas. As a con- 

 trast to these high prices. Fuseli's " Deluge,'' a can- 

 vas 10 by 7 feet, was knocked down for one guinea. 



New York : National Academy of Design. 

 The officers of the year are: President, Thomas W. 

 Wo> >d : Vice-President, James H. Hart ; Correspond- 

 ing Secretary, E. Wood Perry ; Recording Secretary, 

 Geo. II. Smillie ; Treasurer, James D. Smillie. The 

 Academy consists of 90 academicians and 51 asso- 

 ciates. Among the latter are 3 women, Miss Cecilia 

 Beaux, Miss Fidelia Bridges, and Mrs. Henry A. 

 Loop. 



The seventy-first annual exhibition (March 30 to 

 May 16) contained 408 numbers. The annual 

 prizes were awarded as follows : The Thomas B. 

 Clarke prize for the best American figure composi- 

 tion ($300), to Henry Mosler's "Helping Grandpa," 

 representing an old man and a boy mowing : the 

 Norman W. Dodge prize for the best picture painted 

 by a woman (x300), to Miss Ida Waugh for her 

 ""Portrait of Dr. Paul Sartain" ; first Julius Hall- 

 garten prize for the best picture in oils by a citizen 

 under thirty-five years of age ($300), to Mrs. Hazle- 

 ton. of Boston, for her "In a Studio"; second 

 Julius Hallgarten prize ($200), to J. II. Hatfield, of 

 Canton Junction, Mass., for his " After the Bath " ; 

 third Julius Hallgarten prize ($100) to Miss Louise 

 Cox for her " Pomona." 



Among the noteworthy figure pieces in the exhi- 

 bition were Henry Mosler's A Ghost Story," a 

 froup of Breton peasants gathered around an open 

 itchen fireplace listening to a narrator who has 

 apparently just reached the thrilling part of his 

 tale ; Childe Hassam's " Summer," a large canvas 

 of young women enjoying themselves in a garden 

 nook surrounded by 'houses; F. S. Church's "St. 

 Cecilia " ; F. I). Millet's " An Overture " ; Louis 

 Paul Dessar's " Louise " : and F. II. Lungren's " The 

 Snake Dance," the last a remarkable life-size illus- 

 tration of .a strange religious rite of the Moqui 

 Indians of Arizona. Another large painting was 

 the late Thomas Hovenden's unfinished " Founders 

 of a State." representing pioneers resting in a gnt^y 

 valley on their way to new homes in the West. 



The fifteenth annual autumn exhibition (Nov. 23 

 to Dec. 19), though not a large one, was up to the 

 usual standard. Carroll Beckwitli was represented 

 by an interesting portrait of Miss Polly Ogden. and 

 F. A. Bridgman by two Algerian studies. A _ 

 picture of the civil war. by Hugh Witter Ditzler, 

 represented soldiers playing cards on a drumhead 

 while a comrade revives the smoldering camp fire. 



New York: Society of American Artists. 

 The eighteenth annual exhibition (March 28 to 

 May 2; was held as usual in the Fine Arts Galleries. 



The Shaw Fund prize ($1,500) was awarded to 

 Frank \V. Benson for his "Summer." a charming 

 damsel in thin fluttering draperies advancing in a 

 bright-green meadow, and the \\Ybb j>: 

 to \V. L. Metcalf for his "GlouccMer II,v 

 seen from a height above the town. Among the 

 figure pieces were \Vili II. Low's ' Little Crod 

 Pan." a nude boy piping by a still stream with the 

 sunlight falling through thick foliage; Childe 

 Hassam's "Girl in a Given Gown," en-conced in a 

 sunny corner among rocks: Robert Reid's "Au- 

 tumn," a barefooted and bareheaded country girl, 

 laden with goldenrod and asters against a sunlit 

 background; Robert Van Voorst Sewell's large dec- 

 orative composition " The Groves of Persephone " ; 

 and Humphrey Johnston's " Le Domino Rose." a 

 lady in a crimson gown with red ribbons in her 

 auburn hair, which won the Temple gold medal at 

 the exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of 

 Fine Arts. Noteworthy landscapes were Twacht- 

 man's "Grand Canon in Winter" and "Water- 

 falls," E. M. Taber's "A Winter Evening," Mar- 

 garet Wendell Huntington's " From Hill to Sea 

 Mount Desert," Leonard Ochtman's ''Fn^iy 

 Meadows at Sunrise," and J. Evans's " The Strand 

 Gate Winchelsea." John S. Sargent, Carroll Beck- 

 with. Lilla Cabot Perry, Mary Challoner O'Connor, 

 and Irving R. Wiles sent portraits, and McMonnies 

 contributed bronzes of " Shakespeare " and of 

 " Venus and Adonis." 



At the annual meeting of the society, April 11. 

 John La Farge was elected president to succeed 

 E. H. Blashfield, who declined a re-election. 



New York : Metropolitan Museum. The last 

 yearly report shows that the corporation is wholly 

 out of debt. The receipts during 1895 were 245,- 

 340.60 and the expenses $244,518.62, showing a 

 small balance. The number of visitors during the 

 year was 526,488, of whom 190,168 attended on 

 Sundays. 



The thirtieth semiannual exhibition was marked 

 by the addition to the Wolfe collection of several 

 valuable works. A characteristic example of the 

 art of the late Lord Leighton, a tall canvas entitled 

 " Lachrymae," represents a draped female figure 

 leaning in an attitude of grief on a marble column. 

 Rousseau's " Edge of the Woods," a powerful land- 

 scape, was bought at the Schaus sale. A Turner, 

 entitled " Hurrah for the Good Ship Erebus ! 

 another Fish," represents a large whale which has 

 just been pierced with a harpoon overturning by a 

 lash of its tail a boat, with a large ship under full 

 sail in the background. This picture came from 

 the Sir Francis Seymour Haden collection. A new 

 wing in the sculpture gallery was opened, contain- 

 ing reproductions of some of the finest works of 

 sculpture in Europe, from mediaeval days down to 

 Michelangelo. In this, three sections are devoted 

 to mediaeval sculpture and sculpture of the Renais- 

 sance, especially early French and Italian works. 



New York : Architectural League. The elev- 

 enth annual exhibition held at the Fine Arts Gal- 

 leries (Feb. 15 to March 9) was thrown open to the 

 public free, excepting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 

 Noteworthy among the exhibits were four of the 

 six competitive models for the proposed equestrian 

 statue of Gen. Sherman, by II. K. Bush-Brown. 

 C. II. Niehaus. J. Massey Rhind. and Loesi 

 Zimm. Herbert Adams" exhibited a tympanum 

 with figures, and Philip Martini a corner of a cove 

 with figures, both intended for the new Library of 

 Congress. Messrs. Vedder and Cox also exhibited 

 decorations for the same building, and the Tiffany 

 Glass Company beautiful glass mosaic decorations 

 for the Chicago Public Library and window de- 

 signs for several churches. Competitive designs 

 for the decoration of the main hall of the new 



