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FINE AKTS IN 1887. 



FISHERY QUESTIONS. 



his Guide," $5,200, " Return from the Har- 

 vest," $8,100; Zamacois, "The Begging Monk," 

 $4,400; Piloty, "Triumph of Germanicus," 

 $3,900 ; F. E. Church, " Niagara Falls from 

 American Side," $7,050 (Edinburgh Gallery) ; 

 Daniel Huntington, " Lady "Washington's Re- 

 ception," $3,300; Daubigny, "End of Month 

 of May," $7,900; Munkacsy, "Visit to the 

 Baby," $8,700 ; Benjamin-Constant, "Evening 

 on the Terrace," $4,000. The price paid for 

 Meissonier's " 1807 " was the highest, and 

 that for Rosa Bonheur's " Horse Fair " the 

 second highest, ever given for a picture at an 

 auction sale in this country. 



The collection of Henry Probasco, of Cincin- 

 nati, sold in New York, April 18, realized 

 more than $170,000 for 102 works. Among 

 the highest prices obtained were: Rousseau, 

 "Summer Landscape," $21,000, "Forest at 

 Fontainebleau," $7,400; J. F. Millet, "Peas- 

 ants bringing home a New-born Calf," $18,- 

 500; Jules Breton, "Colza Gatherers," $16,- 

 600; Troyon, " Landscape with Cattle," $10,- 

 000; Schreyer, " Russian Landscape," $6,900 ; 

 Eugene Delacroix, "Clorinda delivering the 

 Martyrs," $6,000. 



A collection of pictures, engravings, art 

 books, etc., belonging to the estate of Asher B. 

 Durand, sold also in New York in April, 

 brought $10,656, of which $9,200 was for 

 eighty studies by the artist. 



The Richard H. Halstead collection, sold in 

 New York, January 10, brought $84,320. 

 Works by Bouguereau and by Vibert brought 

 respectively $7,600 and $7,300, and William 

 Bliss Baker's " Woodland Brook," $2,300. At 

 the Robert Graves sale, New York, February 

 9 to 11, Corot's "Landscape with Figures" 

 brought $10,100; Bouguereau's "Cupid Dis- 

 armed," $7.700; "LeJour," $5,500; "Little 

 Sufferer," $2,525; Rousseau's "Oak Tree in 

 Autumn," $2,000; David Johnson's "On the 

 Unadilla," $1,575. 



The Charles F. Haseltine collection of modern 

 French works was sold in New York, February 

 15 to 17, and realized $107,177. 



The fifty-seventh annual exhibition of the 

 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadel- 

 phia (March 10 to April 21), comprised 690 

 numbers, including oil and water-color pictures, 

 black and whites, and sculptures. Among the 

 black and whites were E. A. Abbey's drawings 

 for " She Stoops to Conquer," first exhibited at 

 the Grolier Club, New York. The endowment 

 fund of $100,000, asked for by the Academy, 

 has been more than filled by the subscriptions 

 of about seventy persons. 



A statue of John C. Calhoun, by Harnisch, 

 a Philadelphia sculptor resident in Rome, was 

 unveiled in Charleston, S. C., in April. He is 

 represented seated in a chair, and the work is 

 to be supplemented by accessory statues of 

 Truth, Justice, the Constitution, and History, 

 to be finished next year. 



A statue of Gen. Garfield, standing, with arm 

 extended, was unveiled in May in Washington. 



Figures on the pedestal represent a studious 

 youth, a warrior, and a statesman, emblematic 

 of periods in his career. 



A bronze statue of Nathan Hale, by Carl 

 Gerhardt, was unveiled at Hartford, Conn., in 

 June. The figure, which is of heroic size, 

 represents him standing with his palms open 

 as if addressing the crowd about his place of 

 execution. 



A soldiers' and sailors' monument, dedicated 

 to those who fell in the civil war, was also un- 

 veiled at Hartford. It is a shaft seventy-five 

 feet high and ten feet in diameter, surmounted 

 by a statue of Peace. The pedestal has five 

 steps, with statues of History, Victory, Pros- 

 perity, and Patriotism, at the four corners. 



An equestrian bronze statue of Gen. Burn- 

 side, by Launt Thompson, was unveiled at 

 Providence, R. I., July 4. 



An equestrian bronze statue of Gen. George 

 G. Meade, by Alexander Milne-Calder, was un- 

 veiled in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Octo- 

 ber 18. 



A bronze statue of Solomon Juneau, the first 

 white settler, mayor, and postmaster of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis , was unveiled in Juneau Park, in 

 that city, July 6. 



The bronze statue of Lincoln, by Augustus 

 St. Gaudens, was inaugurated in Chicago. The 

 figure, which is eleven and a half feet high, 

 stands on a pedestal of pink granite, forming a 

 long, curved seat approached by steps. The 

 work cost $40,000, and the money was be- 

 queathed for the purpose by Eli Bates, of 

 Chicago. 



A bronze statue of Gen. Moses Cleveland, 

 the founder of Cleveland, Ohio, by J. G. C. 

 Hamilton, was unveiled in that city in Novem- 

 ber. 



Montreal. At an exhibition in April of pict- 

 ures by native and foreign artists, some note- 

 worthy works were shown, among them Jules 

 Breton's " Communicants," Benjamin - Con- 

 stant's " After the Victory," Gabriel Max's 

 " Raising of Jairus's Daughter," Henner's "La 

 Source," Bougnereau's " Crown of Flowers," 

 and choice examples by Millet, Corot, Diaz, 

 Dupr6, Berne-Bellecour, Leys, Pettie, Bough- 

 ton, Jaconin, Van Marcke, Kowalski, and other 

 representative artists. 



FISHERY QUESTIONS. One of the minor 

 points at issue in the Revolutionary War was 

 the preservation of the ancient fishery fran- 

 chises. By the terms of the treaty of peace the 

 Americans were accorded the liberty of fishing 

 both on the banks and within the territorial 

 waters of the maritime provinces, the same as 

 was possessed by British subjects ; and also of 

 drying and curing their catch on the unoccupied 

 coasts of Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, 

 and Labrador. The Loyalists who settled Nova 

 Scotia, and whom the States refused to compen- 

 sate for their confiscated property, raised diffi- 

 culties in regard to the fishery privileges granted 

 to the Americans. In the war of 1812-'15 Great 

 Britain declared the treaty rights to be abro- 



