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FINE ARTS. 



1,291 ; water-colors and drawings, 183 ; en- 

 graving?, 96 ; sculptures, 261 ; architecture, 

 383 ; historical division, 606. The last in- 

 cluded the works of deceased artists and early 

 works of the older living artists. 



The Museum of Berlin has acquired the por- 

 trait of a man, "Jan Arnoulfini," by Jan van 

 Eyck. It was formerly in the collection of the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, and was 

 sold in 1857 for 36 guineas. At the sale of the 

 Nieuwenhuys collection in London in July it 

 was bought by Sedelmeyer, of Paris, for 326. 



Brussels Exhibition. The exhibition of works 

 of the old masters in the summer was an im- 

 portant event, comprising about three hundred 

 numbers, among them many notable canvases 

 from the museum and from private collections. 

 Some of the works shown were scarcely known 

 except by name. 



The Brussels Museum has acquired a por- 

 trait by Rembrandt, purchased at Cologne by 

 the Belgian Government for 100,000 francs. 

 It represents an aged woman of the middle 

 class, bears the painter's signature, and belongs 

 to his best period, being dated 1656. 



Diisseldorf Exhibition. The exhibition of the 

 works of old masters (May to October) com- 

 prised about four hundred pictures, of which 

 nearly three hundred were by masters of the 

 Dutch school, with Rembrandt at their head. 

 Among them were 127 landscapes and views 

 of towns, 101 genre subjects, 47 portraits, 46 

 still-life, and the remainder religious and his- 

 torical. A most interesting picture was a 

 tnythologic scene by Rembrandt, belonging to 

 Prince Salm-Salm, which is not described by 

 either Vosmaer or Smith. Tt represents a for- 

 est with a stream, and Diana and her nymphs 

 bathing. On one bank is depicted the episode 

 of Action, and on the other that of Callisto. 

 This picture, which is dated 1635, is cited by 

 Bode, who knew it only through a copy. 



Vienna. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts 

 held its sixteenth annual exhibition at Vienna 

 in April and May. The catalogue shows 638 

 numbers, almost all works of Austrian artists. 



The first annual exhibition of Graphic Works 

 of Art was held in Vienna, Dec. 1, 1886, to 

 Jan. 31, 1887. It included copper-plate en- 

 gravings, etchings, lithographs, wood-engrav- 

 ings, and illustrated editions de luxe and works 

 on art. 



United States: Exhibitions, etc. -The National 

 Academy of Design in New York consists of 

 94 academicians and 57 associates. At the an- 

 nual meeting, May 12, Arthur Quartley, J. 

 Alden Weir, and Charles Y. Turner were elect- 

 ed academicians; and Hamilton Hamilton, J. 

 Carroll Beck with, and Joseph Lyman, associ- 

 ates. The sixty-first annual exhibition (April 

 5 to May 15) contained 843 works contributed 

 by 512 artists. The Clarke prize of $300 was 

 awarded to Walter Satterlee for his picture en- 

 titled " A Winter Watering-Place," represent- 

 ing a woman washing a baby. The three Hall- 

 garten prizes of $300, $200, and $100 were 



given respectively to Percy Moran for his 

 u Divided Attention," a young lady reading to 

 a little girl who is watching a cat ; W. A. Cof- 

 fin for his " Moonlight in Harvest " : and Irv- 

 ing R. Wiles for his " Corner Table," a young 

 woman in a restaurant. The sales amounted 

 to $27,115 for 125 works. 



The autumn exhibition (Nov. 22 to Dec. 18) 

 contained 642 works contributed by 405 artists. 

 A new Academy prize of $300, to* be awarded 

 at the same time and in the same manner as the 

 Clarke and the Hallgarten prizes, to the best 

 picture painted in the United States by a wom- 

 an, has been established by Norman W. Dodge. 

 This will be open to all women, without limita- 

 tion of age or nationality. 



At the second Prize Fund Exhibition held 

 in New York in May by the American Art 

 Association, four prizes of $2,000 each were 

 awarded to the following: Edward E. Sim- 

 mons, "Mother and Child"; Frank D. Millet, 

 "At the Inn"; Charles F. Ulrich, "Glass- 

 blowers of Murano " ; Clifford P. Grayson, 

 "Mid-day Dreams." The four pictures were 

 allotted respectively, by vote of the artists, to 

 the Louisville Art Gallery ; Union League 

 Club, New York ; Metropolitan Museum, New 

 York ; and Corcoran Gallery, Washington. In 

 addition to these cash prizes, which were 

 awarded by a committee of the subscribers to 

 the fund, ten gold medals ($100 each) were 

 given by the Association to ten other pictures, 

 selected by a committee of artist exhibitors, as 

 follows: Charles H. Davis, "The Close of 

 Day " ; Gilbert Gaul, " Holding the Line at All 

 Hazards " ; George Inness, Jr., " In the Surf" ; 

 Alfred Kappes, " Tattered and Torn " ; Carl 

 Marr, " Gossip " ; Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, 

 " Those Evening Bells " ; Arthur Parton, 

 "Evening after the Rain"; F. K. M. Rehn, 

 " Close of a Summer Day " ; D. W. Tryon, 

 "Daybreak"; and H. H. Kitson, "Musique cle 

 la Mer " (brcnze statuette). There were 302 

 entries at this exhibition by 211 artists. 



The American Water-Color Society's nine- 

 teenth exhibition at the National Academy, 

 New York (February 1-27), contained 846 

 works by 338 artists. 



A special exhibition of the French "Impres- 

 sionists," which opened on April 2 at the 

 American Art Galleries, and again on May 24 

 at the National Academy, with 310 pictures, 

 contributed by Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, 

 Degas, Signac, Morizot, Caillebotte, Sisley, 

 Mary Cassatt, and others, aroused considerable 

 curiosity, if not interest. 



The eighth exhibition of the Society of 

 American Artists was held in May at the 

 Metropolitan Museum, New York. 



The report of the Curator of the Corcoran 

 Gallery, Washington, at the annual meeting of 

 the board of trustees (January 11), shows 205 

 pictures on exhibition. In 1885 four note- 

 worthy paintings were added : " Coup de main " 

 (Salon, 1880), Emile Renouf; "Going to 

 Drink," Constant Troyon ; portrait of Frank- 



