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tions in England. Among the treasures dis- 

 posed of were the two well-known Altieri 

 Claudes, "The Sacrifice to Apollo" (1668), 

 and " The Landing of ^Eneas" (1675), bought 

 by Agnew for 5,800 guineas and 3,800 respect- 

 ively. They were purchased originally from 

 Prince Altieri, Rome, by Mr. Fagan, were 

 some time at Foothill, and were afterward 

 sold to Mr. Miles for 12,000. A third Claude, 

 " Herdman driving Cattle through a River " 

 (1670), also went to Agnew, for 1,950 guineas. 

 Rubens's " Holy Family," " Woman taken in 

 Adultery," and " Conversion of Saul " (eight 

 feet by eleven feet), were bought in for the 

 family, at 5,000 guineas, 1,700 guineas, and 

 3,300 guineas, respectively. Domenichino's 

 " St. John in a Vision," for which Mr. Miles paid 

 10,000, and Titian's " Venus and Adonis," for- 

 merly in the collection of Benjamin West, were 

 also bought in, at 900 guineas and 1,600 guin- 

 eas ; while Murillo's " Holy Family," formerly 

 in the Hope collection, fell to Agnew, at 3,000 

 guineas. The National Gallery acquired T. 

 Stothard's "Canterbury Pilgrims," 420 guin- 

 eas; Giovanni Bellini's "Adoration of the 

 Magi," 365 guineas; Poussin's "Calling of 

 Abraham," 1,900 guineas ; and Hogarth's 

 "Polly Peachum," 800 guineas, and "The 

 Shrimp Girl," 256 guineas. Sir Joshua Rey- 

 nolds's " Simplicity " was sold privately for 

 3,760. 



United States : Exhibitions. The twenty-fourth 

 annual exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society, 

 at the National Academy, New York, which 

 opened Jan. 5, contained 105 works, by 64 

 artists. The sales realized $13,902. 



The second annual exhibition of the Art In- 

 stitute, Chicago, which opened Jan. 12, con- 

 sisted of 76 works, both American and foreign. 



The twenty-ninth annual exhibition of the 

 Boston Art Club opened Jan. 19, with 162 

 pictures, by 126 artists. 



The American Water-Color Society and the 

 New York Etching Club held a combined ex- 

 hibition at the National Academy, New York 

 (Feb. 4), at which 662 drawings, by 280 artists, 

 were shown. 



The fifty -ninth annual exhibition of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Design (April 7 to May 17) 

 contained 709 works, by 450 artists. The sales 

 amounted to 108 pictures, for the aggregate 

 sum of $36,525. 



The Thomas B. Clarke prize of $300, offered 

 for the best American figure composition paint- 

 ed in the United States, and shown at the ex- 

 hibition, was awarded to Charles F. Ulrich, 

 for his " In the Land of Promise." The three 

 Hallgarten prizes, of $300, $200, and $100, for 

 the three best oil-pictures at the exhibition, 

 were given, respectively, to Louis Moeller, for 

 his " Puzzled " ; C. Y. turner, for the " Court- 

 ship of Miles Standish " ; and William Bliss 

 Baker, for his "Woodland Brook." 



An exhibition of the works of George In- 

 ness, at the American Art Gallery, which 

 opened April 11, contained 57 pictures, dated 



from 1857 to the present time, including his 

 " Niagara." 



The Memorial Exhibition of the works of 

 the late George Fuller, at the Museum of Fine 

 Arts, Boston (April 24 to May 13), consisted of 

 170 works, dating from 1847 to the time of 

 his decease. At the auction-sale at the close, 

 54 pictures were disposed of for $17,470. 



The art department of the Southern Exposi- 

 tion at Louisville, Ky. (Aug. 1 6 to Oct. 25), con- 

 tained 472 works, 403 of which were by Amer- 

 ican artists. 



The art department of the Cincinnati Expo- 

 sition (Sept. 3 to Oct. 4) contained 588 works, 

 of which 244 were by Americans. 



The exhibition of the Pennsylvania Acad- 

 emy, in Philadelphia (Oct. 30 to Dec. 11), was 

 successful. 



The new galleries of the American Art As- 

 sociation were opened in New York, with an 

 exhibition (Nov. 10 to Dec. 10) composed of 

 works by American artists from the Paris Sa- 

 lon of 1884, supplemented by home talent. 



The autumn exhibition of the National 

 Academy of Design was held from Nov. 10 to 

 Nov. 29. 



The forty-ninth exhibition of the Brooklyn 

 Art Association (Dec. 8-19) contained 290 oil- 

 pictures, contributed by 178 artists. 



A collection of works by the English painter, 

 George Frederick Watts, was the chief feature 

 at the winter exhibition of the Metropolitan 

 Museum of New York, which opened Oct. 30. 

 It comprised 52 oil-paintings (1854 to 1884), 

 including 28 portraits ; one water-color, and 

 three photographs of paintings. 



United States : Statues and Monuments. A statue 

 of Martin Luther, eleven and a half feet high, 

 a replica of the central figure of the monument 

 at Worms, by Reitschel, was unveiled, May 21, 

 in front of the Lutheran Memorial Church, 

 Washington. 



A statue, by Augustus St. Gaudens, of Rob- 

 ert Richard Randall, founder of the Sailors' 

 Snug Harbor, Staten Island, was unveiled in 

 front of that institution on Decoration-day. 



An equestrian statue of Gen. Simon Bolivar, 

 by Rafael de la Cova, a gift from the Republic 

 of Venezuela, was unveiled, June 17, in Cen- 

 tral Park, New York. 



A statue of the late Gov. Buckingham, of 

 Connecticut, by Olin L. Warner, was unveiled, 

 June 18, at Hartford. 



A statue of Prof. Benjamin Silliman, the 

 elder, by John F. Weir, was unveiled, June 

 24. at New Haven, Conn. 



The Yorktown Monument, the joint work 

 of J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor, and of Richard M. 

 Hunt and Henry Van Brunt, architects, was 

 unveiled on Oct. 19, the anniversary of the 

 surrender of Cornwallis. 



A soldiers' monument, by G. E. Bissell, of 

 Poughkeepsie, was unveiled, Oct. 23, on the 

 public green at Waterbury, Conn. 



Larkin G. Mead's marble group, represent- 

 ing Columbus before Queen Isabella, present- 



