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city with sleeping Bacchantes, with white 

 robes, ivy wreaths, tambourines, and leopard- 

 skins, watched over by the women of the city. 

 Dawn is breaking over the marble pavement 

 and columns of the buildings. 



" Mercy," by Sir J. E. Millais, is a scene on 

 St'. Bartholomew's Day, 1572, and a companion 

 piece to "A Huguenot." A priest, standing 

 in an open door, is beckoning a soldier, bearing 

 the badge of the cross, to join in the massacre, 

 while a kneeling nun is attempting to restrain 

 him. 



"Samson," by S. J. Solomon, is a large can- 

 vas (8 feet high x 12 feet), representing the 

 struggle of the strong man with the Philistines 

 after his locks are shorn. 



Briton Riviere's ''Old World Wanderer" 

 represents a Greek explorer who has landed 

 on the shore of a rocky bay from a galley seen 

 in the distance. He is walking along, spear 

 in hand, his presence unnoticed by the gulls, 

 which have never had cause to fear a human 

 being. 



" Misery and Mercy," by Frederick Goodall, 

 is the oft-told story of Christ and the adulter- 

 ess. " The Institution of the Franciscan Or- 

 der," by Edward Armitage, is a large picture 

 (11 feet, 6 inches x 17 feet) painted for St. 

 John's Catholic church, Islington. " The First 

 Cloud " is one of W. Q. Orchardson's best and 

 most characteristic pictures, representing a 

 handsome drawing-room interior, with a hus- 

 band standing with his back to the fire, while 

 his wife walks out in graceful anger. It goes 

 to Australia. John S. Sargent's " Carnation, 

 Lily, Lily, Rose," two little girls in a garden, 

 with a foreground of lilies and rose-carnations, 

 has been purchased by the Royal Academy 

 under the Chantry bequest 



Marcus Stone and Luke Fildes were elected 

 full members of the Royal Academy, and Al- 

 fred Gilbert, sculptor, an associate member. 

 W. F. Calderon was elected Keeper of the 

 Royal Academy in place of Frederick R. Pick- 

 ersgill, resigned. 



London : Grosvenor Gallery. The winter exhi- 

 bition consisted of a collection of 166 works of 

 Sir Anton Van Dyck, principally portraits, in- 

 cluding many of the best examples from Wind- 

 sor and other noble collections throughout Eng- 

 land. Among them were the well-known por- 

 traits of Charles I, of Henrietta Maria, and of 

 their children, of Van Dyck himself, and of 

 many of the lords and ladies of the time whom 

 he depicted. Other pictures were " Armida and 

 Rinaldo," " The Betrayal of Christ," " Dseda- 

 lus," "Virgin and St. Catherine," "Christ giv- 

 ing the Keys to Peter," and a " Pieta." 



The eleventh summer exhibition of the 

 Grosvenor Gallery contained 420 numbers, in- 

 cluding oil-paintings, water-colors, and sculpt- 

 ure. Among the noteworthy pictures were the 

 contributions of Edward Burne-Jones, "The 

 Garden of Pan," representing the youthful god 

 playing to a nude youth and maiden, seated. 

 " The Baleful Head," one of a series illustrative 



of the story of Perseus and Andromeda, exhib- 

 its the former showing the latter the reflection 

 in water of the head of Medusa. By him also 

 were a portrait of a damsel in lapis-lazuli blue 

 seated before a circular mirror ; " Katie," a 

 girl lying on a sofa reading; and a memorial 

 tablet. George F. Watts's " Judgment of Paris " 

 represents the three goddesses standing facing 

 the spectator in a golden haze on a floor of 

 clouds. Holman Hunt sent two works, "Ama- 

 ryllis" (an illustration of Herrick's "Pastoral 

 Song to the King "), and " Master Hilary the 

 Tracer," a hoy tracing a picture at a win- 

 dow. E. J. Poynter's " Corner in the Market- 

 place " represents a young mother seated on a 

 marble bench watching an infant playing on 

 the floor, with a girl seated beside it binding a 

 wreath. W. B. Richmond's " Icarus " depicts 

 him at the moment of starting on his flight 

 from a high rock above the sea. C. E. Halle's 

 " Buondelmonte and the Donati " is an illus- 

 tration of an incident which led to the war of 

 the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, as related in 

 Machiavelli's " History of Florence." Sir John 

 E. Millais and Hubert Herkomer contributed 

 portraits. 



An exhibition of a collection of the works 

 of Basil Vereschagin, the Russian painter, was 

 held in the Grosvenor Gallery in October. 

 Among the pictures were : " After the Battle," 

 u Blowing from Guns in British India," " The 

 Spy," "Skoheleff at Shipka," "The Road of 

 the War Prisoners," " Before the Attack," 

 " The Future Emperor of India " (entrance of 

 Prince of Wales into Jeypore), and " Crucifix- 

 ion by the Romans." 



London: Miscellaneous. The art sales in 1887 

 were not as noteworthy as those of the pre- 

 ceding year. One of the most interesting was 

 the famous collection of engravings made by 

 the late Duke of Buccleugh, begun March 8, 

 and lasting twelve days, including the works 

 of Landseer, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Adrian van 

 Ostade, and others, and a nearly full set of 

 Rembrandt's etchings. High prices were ob- 

 tained for some of the rarer states of fine ex- 

 amples byRemhrandt: The Hundred-Guilder 

 Piece k " Jesus Healing the Sick," first state, 

 1,300 ; " Coppenol," large plate, second state, 

 1,190; "Coppenol," small plate, first state, 

 320; "Jesus before Pilate," first state, 1,150; 

 "Portrait of Van Tolling," second state, 800; 

 " Abraham Fransz," second state, 510. 



On April 2 the collection of Charles H. Rick- 

 ards, of Manchester, was sold, including 57 

 pictures and designs by George F. Watts, which 

 realized 15,686. Of these, many of which 

 were replicas, " Love and Death " went at 

 1,155; "Love and Life," 1,207; "Return 

 of the Dove," 903 ; " Angel of Death," 577 ; 

 "Time, Death, and Judgment," 525. The 

 portrait of Herr Joachim was bought for the 

 Chicago Gallery at 441. At the same sale 

 Alma-Tadema's "Emperor Hadrian visiting a 

 Romano-British Pottery" (R. A., 1884) was 

 sold for 750 guineas; Vicat Cole's "Heart of 



