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FINE ARTS IN 1896. 



FLORIDA. 



Hotel Manhattan were submitted by C. Y. Turner, 

 who was the successful one, and Edward Simmons, 

 Frank Fowler, Herbert Denman, and Will H. Low. 



Miscellaneous. The collection of David H. 

 King, Jr., consisting of 161 pictures, sold in New 

 York, Feb. 18 and 19, brought in the aggregate 

 $379.780. Among the best prices obtained were: 

 Corot, "Catching Crawfish," $2,100; Diaz. "Gypsies 

 in the Forest," $4,350 ; Reynolds, " Countess Hyn- 

 ford," $2,000; Romney, " Master Pemberton." $2,- 

 050; Lawrence, " Hon. Mrs. Van Sittart," $2,050; 

 Reynolds, "Mrs. Arnold," $4,900; Beechey, "Por- 

 trait of a Lady," $3,000 ; Detaille, "Champigny," 

 $2.100; De Neiiville, "Champigny," $2,100; Bou- 

 guereau, " The Bather," $3,500 ; Mauve, " Cattle in 

 Haarlem Meadows," $6,675 ; Schreyer, " Cheveaux 

 dans la Neige," $5,100; Troyon, "'Driving Home 

 the Flock," $17.250 ; Knaus. " The Coquette," 

 SM.200 ; Lerolle, " End of the Day," $2,000 ; Law- 

 rence, "Portrait, of a Lady," $3,000: Copley, "Miss 

 Hill," $3,200; Rembrandt, "Portrait of John As- 

 selyn," $11,100; Corot, "Souvenir of Normandy," 

 $6,' 70!) ; Daubigny, " Evening on the Oise," $3,400 ; 

 Dupre, " Rentre dans la Cabane," $2,500 ; Mauve, 

 " Crepuscle," $5.900; Corot, "Chemin Borde de 

 Saules," $4,300 ; Jacque, " Sheep Pasture," $3,500 ; 

 Mauve, " Summer Day in Holland," $5,200; Con- 

 stable, "Hampstead Heath," $3,200; Turner, 

 "Blois, on the Loire," $9,800; Romney, "Mrs. An- 

 gerstein," $2,550 ; Reynolds. " Mrs. Angelo," $4.000 ; 

 Lawrence, " Countess Charlemont and her Son," 

 $10,700; Hoppner, "Mile. Hillsberg," $10,100; 

 Pourbus, " Isabella of Austria," $8,000. 



Prizes for the best six plans for a new City Hall 

 for New York, submitted to the New Municipal 

 Building Commission, were awarded as follow : 

 First prize, $7,000, to John R. Thomas. New York ; 

 the other five, $2,000 each, to Ernest Flagg. New 

 York ; Edward P. Casey, New York ; Rankin & 

 Kellogg, Philadelphia; Gordon, Bragdon & Or- 

 chard, Rochester ; and P. D. Weber, Chicago. 



The Liberal Art League is the name of a new art 

 club, formed for the purpose of establishing a per- 

 manent art gallery in New York where artists can 

 offer their works for sale. 



The private collection of the late William Schaus, 

 consisting of 31 pictures, sold at Chickering Hall, 

 New York, on Feb. 28, for $185,325. Among the 

 highest prices obtained were : Rembrandt, " Por- 

 trait of an Aumiral," $18,600 ; Troyon, " Retour a 

 la Ferme," $24,500, and " Cattle in Pasture," $10,- 

 000; Rousseau, "Edge of the Woods," $25,200, 

 and "Landscape," $9.030; Diaz, " Sunset," $18,900; 

 Corot, " Landscape," $8,000 ; Daubigny, " Coucher 

 du Soleil," $10,150. 



An exhibition of bookplate designs, including 

 those submitted in competition for a prize offered 

 by Theodore Hoe Mead for a bookplate for the Au- 

 thor's Club, New York, was held in the club's 

 rooms, in Carnegie Building, in April. The prize 

 ($100) was awarded to the design of George Whar- 

 ton Edwards. 



The prizes for designs for the mural decorations 

 of the Chamber of the Common Council in the City 

 Hall, Philadelphia, were awarded as follows : First 

 prize, $3,000, to Joseph De Camp, of Philadelphia; 

 second prize, $1.000, to Charles Y. Turner, of New 

 York ; third prize, $750, to Frank W. Benson, of 

 Boston. 



The Jacob H. Lazarus scholarship of $1,000 per 

 year for three years, for the study of mural paint- 

 ing in Europe/was awarded to George W. Breck, 

 President of the Art Students' League of New York. 

 Bryson Burroughs, who had just returned after five 

 years' study in Europe as winner of the first Chanler 

 Paris prize", was elected to succeed him as presi- 

 dent. 



An equestrian bronze statue of Gen. Grant, by 

 William Ordway Partridge, was unveiled on April 

 25 at Bedford Avenue and Dean Street, Brooklyn. 

 the gift to the city of the Union League Club,' of 

 Brooklyn. It is of more than life size, and is 

 elevated on an oblong granite pedestal about 16 

 feet high. The statue was unveiled by Ulysses D. 

 Grant, son of Col. Frederick D. Grant, in the pres- 

 ence of Gov. Morton and staff, and a numerous 

 company. 



A bronze statue of John C. Calhoun, by J. Mas- 

 sey Rhind, of New York, a present to the city of 

 Charleston by Southern women, has been erected in 

 one of the public squares of that city. The statue, 

 which is 12 feet 8 inches high, is on a granite ped- 

 estal 40 feet high, with bronze palmetto trees at 

 its corners. 



The first annual exhibition in the art galleries 

 connected with the Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, 

 was a great success. The following prizes, given by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie, were awarded : First prize, 

 $5.000, for an American painting completed within 

 1896, and first exhibited in the Carnegie Galleries, 

 to Winslow Homer, for " The Wreck '" ; second 

 prize, $3.000. to Gari Melchers. for "The Ship- 

 builder"; gold medal, to John La very, Scotland, 

 for his "Lady in Brown"; silver medal, to J. F. 

 Raffaelli, Paris, for his "Notre Dame"; bronze 

 medal, to Miss Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia, for her 

 "Ernesta." 



The monument to John Boyle O'Reilly, the work 

 of Daniel C. French, of New York, was unveiled in 

 Boston in June. It is surmounted by a bronze 

 group of 3 figures, larger than life, all seated. II i- 

 bernia, in the middle, is making a laurel wreath ; 

 at her right is Patriotism, a warrior in leather cui- 

 rass and sandals ; and on her left, Poetry, a nude 

 youth with a lyre and laurel branches, of which he 

 offers one for the wreath. The statue of Mr. 

 O'Reilly, crowning the group, is 14 feet high. 



At the International Exposition of the Fine Arts 

 at Berlin the great gold medal was awarded to 

 Julius L. Stewart, of Philadelphia, and smaller gold 

 medals to Walter Gay, of Boston, and George Hitch- 

 cock, of Providence. 



FLORIDA, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union March 3, 1845; area, 58,680 square miles; 

 population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, 87,445 in 1850; 140,424 in 1860; 

 187,748 in 1870; 269,493 in 1880; and 391,422 in 

 1890. By the State census of 1895 it was 464,639. 

 Capital, Tallahassee. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor. Henry L. Mitch- 

 ell ; Secretary of State, John L. Crawford ; Comp- 

 troller, W. D. Bloxham : Treasurer, C. B.Collins; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. W. N. Sheats ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, L. B. Wombwell ; 

 Adjutant General, Patrick Houstoun ; Attorney- 

 General, W. B. Lamar ; Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Benjamin S. Liddon ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, R. Fenwick Taylor and Milton H. Mabry all 

 Democrats. 



The State Census. The census of 1895 gives 

 the white population as 271,561, and the colored as 

 193,039 ; Indians, 39. Since 1890 the white popu- 

 lation has increased 48,530, decrease being reported 

 in 8 only of the 45 counties ; the colored population 

 has increased 29,730, decrease being reported in 

 only 6 counties. The greatest increase was in Hills- 

 borough County, in which Tampa is situated. 

 Tampa had but 5,532 inhabitants in 1890, and 

 Jacksonville 17,201. Following is the present pop- 

 ulation of the larger places in the State : Jackson- 

 ville, 25,130: Key West, 16,502; Tampa, 15,634; 

 Ponsacola. 14,084; Ocala, 4,597; St. Augustine, 

 4,151; Tallahassee, 3,931 ; Gainesville, 3,152 ; Appa- 



