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FINE ARTS IN 1891. 



ures 45,643. Among the best prices obtained 

 for water colors were : Fortuny, " Interior of a 

 Morocco Carpet Warehouse," 1,050 ; Meissonier, 

 "The Antechamber," 840; Turner, "Bridge 

 Castle," 966 ; " Llangollen," 509 ; " Edin- 

 burgh," 913; "Rivaulx Abbey," 960. For 

 paintings in oil : Meissonier, " The Sign Painter," 

 6,772 (owner paid artist 8,400 for it) ; Troyon, 

 " Going to Market," 4,930 ; Rosa Bonheur, 

 " Mountainous Landscape" (1870), 1,260; Rosa 

 Bonheur and Dubufe, "Hosa Bonheur," 1,312 ; 

 Gerome, " Carpets for Sale," 682 ; T. Webster, 

 '! Roast Pig," 1,207 (Gillott sale, 1872, 3,722) ; 

 J. Linnell, " The Hillside Farm " (1849), 2,100 ; 

 John Phillip, " Grape-seller of Seville " (1862), 

 2,410 ; Landseer, " Return from Deer-stalking " 

 (1827), 1,785 ; Breeze, " Retriever with Game " 

 (1842), 4,326; C. Stanfield, "Bay of Naples" 

 (1867), 1,050 ; D. Roberts, " Interior of St. Pe- 

 ter's, Rome" (1862), 1,470; W. Collins, "The 

 Minnow Catchers," 1,575 ; W. Muller, " The 

 Chess-players at Cairo," 3,202 (Gillott sale, 1872, 

 3,950; Heugh sale, 1874, 4,052); Turner, 

 " Walton Bridges," 7,450 (Gillott sale, 5,250) ; 

 Hogarth, " The Gate of Calais " (The Roast Beef 

 of Old England), 2,572. 



On May 23, at the sale of the collection of 

 William Holdsworth, of Ayr, were sold the fol- 

 lowing : Turner, " Boats and Dutch Men-of 

 war," 1,312 ; " Whale Ship." 945 ;. Gainsbor- 

 ough, " The Mushroom Girl," 2,572 (Dupont 

 sale, 1872, 525); Millais, "Murthly Water," 

 1.522. 



On June 6 was sold the collection of modern 



S'ctures of the late Charles P. Matthews, of 

 avering-atte-Bower, Essex, consisting of 125 

 lots. Among the noteworthy pictures were : 

 Holman Hunt, " Finding of the Saviour in the 

 Temple," 3,570. Sir F. Leighton, " Music Les- 

 son," 2,467 ; " lostephane," 1,071. J. F. Lewis, 

 " Reception," 892 ; " Intercepted Correspond- 

 ence," 1,764 ; " Turkish School, Cairo," 1,785 ; 

 " The Seraff," 1,785. Millais, "A Flood,"1.680 ; 

 "TheRansom,"840. Muller, "Island of Rhodes," 

 3,465 (Watts sale, 1885, 1,945). C. Stanfield, 

 "Mazorbo and Torcello," 1,050. W. Frith, 

 " Charles Il's Last Sunday." 1,732. J. C. Hook,. 

 " Jetsam and Flotsam," 1,785 ; " Clearing the 

 Nets," 945; "Hoisting Sail," 1,785; "Trawl- 

 ers," 850 ; " Sea Urchins," 777 ; " From under 

 the Sea," 945 ; " Brimming Holland," 1,701. 



On June 20 and 23 was sold the collection of 

 the late Miss James, including some fine Wat- 

 teaus and Watteau and Turner drawings. A 

 Watteau, " L'Occupation selon 1'age," 5,460 ; 

 " L' Accord parf ait," ' 3,675. Meissonier, " La 

 Vedette," 1,102 (sold, 1889, for 1,680); " Les 

 Mousquetaires," 997 (1889, 1.312). P. Na- 

 smyth, " Leigh Woods," 1,491 J. Linnell, " The 

 Forest Road," 1,260. Rembrandt, "Jew Rab- 

 bi," 840. 



On July 11 was sold the collection of the late 

 Cavendish Bentinck, M. P., realizing more than 

 19,000. Among the pictures were : Reynolds, 

 "Fanny Kemble" (1784), 2,960; J. Ruysdael, 

 " Wooded Landscape " (figures by Berchem), 

 1,470. 



Miscellaneous. The Chantrey fund pur- 

 chases for 1891 are as follow : P. H. Calderon's 

 " St. Elizabeth of Hungary's Great Act of Re- 

 nunciation," bought for 1,200; Harry Bates's 



marble statue " Pandora," 1,000 ; Harry Dixon's 

 water color "Lions," 100; and J. W. North's 

 " The Winter Sun in the Wild Woodland," 315. 

 Since the bequest was made, 58 works have been 

 bought, of which 18 only were by members of the 

 academic body. 



An anonymous donor, generally understood to 

 be Mr. Henry Tate, has given the Government 

 80,000 to found a National Gallery of British 

 Art. The Government has granted a site for it 

 at South Kensington, with a frontage of 300 feet 

 on Exhibition Road. 



The corporation of Glasgow has paid Mr. 

 Whistler 1,000 for his portrait of Carlyle the 

 old man against a gray wall, with a rug over his 

 legs, and his large, soft hat lying on his knee. 



George Reid, R. S. A., was elected, Aug. 8. 

 President of the Royal Scottish Academy, in suc- 

 cession to the late Sir William Fettes Douglas. 

 Mr. Reid is a pupil of the Trustees' Academy, 

 Edinburgh, of Israels and Mollinger in Holland, 

 and of Yvon in Paris. 



An exhibition of examples of the English 

 pre-Raphaelites was held in the Birmingham 

 Museum in October. Works by Ford Madox 

 Brown, Holman Hunt, Rossetti, Sir John Mil- 

 lais, Burne-Jones, and others were shown. The 

 permanent collection at Birmingham has been 

 enriched by the purchase of Burne-Jones's " Star 

 of Bethlehem." Watts's " Roman Lady," Mil- 

 lais's " The Widow's Mite," and J. F. Lewis's 

 " The Doubtful Coin." 



The Royal Hibernian Academy held its sixty- 

 second exhibition in Dublin in April. It was in 

 all respects equal to any of its previous ones. 



A statue of John Bright, by Bruce Joy, was un- 

 covere/i, on Oct. 10, in the square in front of 

 Manchester Town Hall. Another, by Hamo 

 Thornycroft, will shortly be unveiled at Roch- 

 dale. 



The sale of the Post collection, Amsterdam, 

 April 14, realized 273,113 florins, or about $110,- 

 000. Among the best prices obtained were : 

 Rosa Bonheur, " La Fenaison," 18,150 florins ; 

 Corot, " Le Ravin," 15,290 ; J. Israels. " Jour de 

 Repos," 14,410; Jules Dupre, "Vue de Foret," 

 13,860. 



Prince Borghese, of Rome, has sold to M. A. 

 de Rothschild the portrait of " Cesar Borgia," 

 by Raphael, for 600,000 francs. The prince has 

 replaced this famous picture by four other can- 

 vases: "Crucifixion," by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo; 

 " St. Stephen," by Francia ; " Madonna," by Lo- 

 renzo Credi ; and an early work by Lotto. 



The international exhibition of works of art 

 at Berlin, organized by the Berlin Artists' Union 

 to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, was opened, 

 May 1, by the Emperor William and the Empress- 

 dowager Frederick, with a brilliant ceremony. 

 Between four and five thousand works were con- 

 tributed by artists of almost all countries except- 

 ing France, the American colony in Europe being 

 well represented. The outer hall was devoted to 

 sculpture. It was in every respect a remarkable 

 exhibition. Among the American exhibitors to 

 whom medals were awarded are Frederick H. 

 Bridgman, Jules Stewart, Walter McEwen, and 

 -Messrs. Forbes, Stanhope, Story, and Shannon. 



An international exhibition of painting was 

 opened in Stuttgart in March by Prince William 

 of Wurtemburg. Works were contributed by 



