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FINE ARTS IN 1887. 



Surrey " (1874) for 680 guineas ; and George 

 H. Boughton's -'Music Lesson" (1880) for 300 

 guineas. 



The J. Graham collection, sold April 30, real- 

 ized a total of 61,347. Among the notable 

 canvases disposed of were : Paul Delaroche, 

 " Christian Martyr," 550 guineas ; " Mary Mag- 

 dalene," 620 guineas; "St. John in Patmos," 

 580 guineas. Henri Leys, u Antwerp during the 

 Spanish Occupation," J,400 guineas. J. L. Ge- 

 rorne, " The Nile Boat," 1,500 guineas. Eosa 

 Bonheur, "Early Morning in Forest of Fon- 

 tainebleau," 810 guineas; "Highland Raid," 

 3,900 guineas. Sir Ed win Landseer, " The Shep- 

 herd's Bible," 1,020 guineas. Holman Hunt, 

 "Finding of Jesus in the Temple," 1,200 guin- 

 eas. John Linnell, " Edge of the Wood," 550 

 guineas ; " Christ and the Woman of Samaria," 

 570 guineas; "Under the Hawthorn- Tree," 

 1,020 guineas; "The Sheep Drove," 1,850 

 guineas; "Return of Ulysses," 1,400 guineas; 

 "The Peat-Gatherers" (with Cox) T 215 guineas. 

 Sir John E. Millais, "Dream of the Past," 1,300 

 guineas. D. G. Rossetti, " Venus Verticordia," 

 450 guineas; "Pandora," 550 guineas. Sir 

 David Wilkie, " The School " (his last work), 

 1,650 guineas. Edward Burne-Jones, " Fides " 

 (tempera), 440 guineas; "Sperantia" (tempera), 

 640guineas. Turner, "Italian Landscape," 1,100 

 guineas; "The Wreck Buoy," 1,000 guineas; 

 " Van Goyen going about to choose a Subject," 

 6,500 guineas; "Mercury and Argus," *3,600 

 guineas. Sir Joshua Reynolds, " The School- 

 boys " (Masters Gawler), 2,310 guineas. Gains- 

 borough, " The Sisters " (Lady Day and Bar- 

 oness de Noailles), 9,500 guineas. 



In May Edwin Long's "Christmas at Se- 

 ville " (1868) sold at Chrystie's for 1,030 

 guineas; John Linnell's "Storm in Harvest," 

 1,450 guineas; Holman Hunt's "Scene from 

 ' Two Gentlemen of Verona,' " 1,000 guineas 

 (Birmingham Museum) ; " The Scapegoat," 

 1,350 guineas; David Cox's "Going to the 

 Hay-field," 1,805 guineas. 



In Mr. Kaye Knowles's collection, sold May 

 14, which brought 18,343, were: Meissonier, 

 "The Smoker" (water-color), 500 guineas; 

 Alma-Tadema, " A Bacchante There he is " 

 (1875), 550 guineas ; Millais, " Over the Hills 

 and Far Away," 5,000 guineas (G. Glayton). 



The collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, sold 

 in June, realized 62,702, of which the pict- 

 ures brought 28,713. Among the noteworthy 

 canvases were: Reynolds, "Laughing Girl," 

 240 guineas. J. B. Pater, " The Toilet," 345 

 guineas. F. Drouais, " Madame du Barri," 950 

 guineas; "Flower-Gatherers," 1,000 guineas. 

 Gainsborough, " Horses Drinking," 1,620 guin- 

 eas. Pannini, " Exterior of St. Peter's," 800 

 guineas; "Interior of St. Peter's," 1,100 guineas. 

 J. B. Santerre, "Mile. Charlotte Desrnares," 

 2,000 guineas. Boucher, "Madame de Pompa- 

 dour," 9,900 guineas. 



In July, Gainsborough's portrait of the " Hon. 

 Mrs. Henry Fane" (1777), from Fulbeck Hall, 

 Frantham, sold for 4,586 guineas. 



Manchester. In the exhibition in honor of 

 the Queen's Jubilee the tine-art section was an 

 epitome of the history of British art within 

 the Victorian era. The thirteen picture-gal- 

 leries were painted and decorated under the 

 supervision of Mr. Burne-Jones, who was him- 

 self represented by twelve pictures, includ- 

 ing the " Wheel of Fortune," the " Chant 

 d' Amour," and the series illustrating the 

 " Story of Pygmalion." Ten works by Dante 

 Rossetti hung in one gallery, among them 

 "Dante's Dream," "Beata Beatrix," "The 

 Blessed Damosel," and " The Blue Bower." 

 Holman Hunt was represented by five exam- 

 ples, including " Claudio and Isabella," " The 

 Scapegoat," and " The Shadow of the Cross"; 

 and Ford Madox Brown by his " Work," 

 " Romeo and Juliet," and "Cromwell on his 

 Farm." Sir John E. Millais had fifteen works, 

 among them "The Vale of Rest," " The Boy- 

 hood of Raleigh," "Asleep," "Awake," and 

 the wonderful portrait of " Cardinal Newman." 

 Alma-Tadema's "Painter's Studio," "Sculp- 

 tor's Studio," " Parting Kiss," " Vintage Fes- 

 tival," " The Apodyterium," and others, nearly 

 filled one room ; and George Frederick Watts's 

 twenty-three pictures, including " Love and 

 Death " and many of his portraits, dominated 

 another. Edwin Long's " Diana or Christ " 

 and " Babylonian Marriage-Market," Sir Fred- 

 erick Leighton's " Daphnephoria," and char- 

 acteristic works by Sir James Linton and 

 Messrs. Poynter, Fildea, Orchardson, Gow, 

 Vicat Cole, Hook, Miss Montalba, and numer- 

 ous others, made up a large and most interest- 

 ing collection. 



St. Petersburg. The Hermitage has been en- 

 riched by the collection of Prince Galitzin, ac- 

 quired by the Government for 800,000 ruble?, 

 comprising, besides painting and statuary, por- 

 celain, tapestries, and valuable illuminated 

 books and manuscripts of the fourteenth and 

 fifteenth centuries. The most important pict- 

 ure is a triptych by Raphael, representing 

 Christ on Calvary, surrounded by the Virgin, 

 St. John, and two other persons, formerly pre- 

 sented by the confessor of Pope Alexander VI 

 to the Dominicans of San Gimignano, and ac- 

 quired by Prince Galitzin in 1840. 



United States t Exhibitions, etc. The National 

 Academy of Design, New York, held its sixty- 

 second annual exhibition (April 4 to May 14), 

 with 503 works. The sales at the close 

 amounted to $33,000. J. Francis Murphy 

 was elected an academician, and Alfred 

 Kappes, Frederick W. Freer, Walter L. Palmer, 

 Thomas W. Dewing, and Walter Shirlaw, as- 

 sociates. The Clarke prize for the best figure- 

 composition was awarded to Thomas W. Dew- 

 ing for his decorative picture entitled "Days." 

 The first Hallgarten prize, $300, was given to 

 Alfred Kappes for his genre picture, " Buck- 

 wheat Cakes " ; the second, $200, to Walter L. 

 Palmer for landscape, "January"; the third, 

 $100, to D. W. Tryon, for a landscape. Messrs. 

 Palmer and Tryon being ineligible as to age, 



