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FINE ARTS IN 1892-'93. 



Leighton's "The Sea shall give up its Dead." 

 The new gallery will be under the control of the 

 trustees of the National Gallery. 



The art sales of 1893 were not so important as 

 those of the preceding year. At a sale. May 6, 

 of pictures belonging to Viscount Clifden and 

 others, the following were disposed of : Rem- 

 brandt, " Wife of Burgomaster Six," 7,035 ; Ve- 

 lasquez, " Mariana of Austria, Second Wife of 

 Philip IV of Spain," 4,305 ; " Infanta Maria 

 Teresa," 1,260 ; " Isabel de Bourbon," 2,625 ; 

 Gainsborough, " Portrait of Mary, Wife of Sir 

 Robert Carr," 1,249 ; Sir J. Reynolds, " Lady 

 Caroline, Wife of Sir Uvedale T. Price," 3,885. 



The sale, June 3, of the first part of the Baring 

 collection, the property of Lord Revelstoke, the 

 Hon. Francis Baring, and Mr. Stewart Hodgsno, 

 comprised some well-known pictures. Sir Fred- 

 erick Leighton, " The Daphnephoria," brought 

 3,937; Constable, "Hampstead Heath," 2,- 

 677; Gainsborough, " Mrs. Drummond," 7,035; 

 " Lady Rodney," 2,415 ; Memling, " Virgin en- 

 throned with Infant Saviour," 1,155 ; J. C. 

 Hook, " Luff, Boy ! " 966. 



The following pictures from Cassiobury Park 

 were sold July 17 : Sir E. Landseer, " Cat's-paw," 

 934. J. M. W. Turner, " The Trout Stream," 

 5,040; " Walton Bridge," 4,305 ; The Nore," 

 4,305. Landseer's " Cat's-paw " (1824) was sold 

 by him to Mayer, the dealer, for 100, and was 

 the picture which made his reputation. In 1863 

 it was valued at 3,000. 



Chicago : Columbian Exposition. In the 

 department of Fine Arts were 10,040 exhibits, 

 classified by countries as follow : 



United States, 3,034, of which 1,132 were oil 

 paintings, 220 water colors, 548 pastels, draw- 

 ings, etc., S 634 etchings, engravings, etc., 160 

 sculptures, medals, etc., 32 decorative work, 308 

 architecture ; United States Loan Collection. 126, 

 of which 122 were oil paintings and 4 sculptures. 



Austria, 166, of which 132 were oil paintings, 

 13 water colors, 1 pastel, 4 etchings, and 16 sculp- 

 tures. 



Belgium, 292, of which 210 were oil paintings, 

 17 water colors, 4 pastels, 15 etchings, and 46 

 sculptures. 



Brazil, 135, of which 114 were oil paintings, 9 

 water colors, and 12 sculptures. 



Canada, 196, of which 132 were oil paintings 

 and 64 water colors. 



Denmark, 176, of which 158 were oil paint- 

 ings and 18 sculptures. 



France, 1,200, of which 473 were oil paintings, 

 69 water colors, 44 pastels, 139 etchings, 167 

 sculptures, 147 decorative art work, 161 archi- 

 tecture, and 116 historic sculpture. 



Germany, 881, of which 420 were oil paintings, 

 80 water colors, 22 pastels, 59 etchings, 113 

 sculptures, and 187 architecture. 



Great Britain, 1,105, of which 450 were oil 

 paintings, 205 water colors, 72 pastels, 182 etch- 

 ings, 50 sculptures, and 146 architecture. 



Holland, 332, of which 190 were oil paintings, 

 109 water colors, and 33 etchings. 



Italy, 429, of which 199 were oil paintings, 25 

 water colors, 28 etchings, 172 sculptures, 111 

 ancient sculptures, and 5 decorative work. 



Japan, 375, not subject to classification. 



Mexico, 91, of which 81 were oil paintings 

 and 13 sculptures. 



New South Wales, 230, of which 104 were oil 

 paintings, 119 water colors, 5 sculptures, and 2 

 decorative work. 



Norway, 137, of which 126 were oil paintings, 

 2 pastels, 8 sculptures and 1 etching. 



Russia, 133, of which 117 were oil paintings 

 and 16 sculptures; Society Polish Artists, 122. 



Spain 411, of which 232 were oil paintings, 13 

 water colors, 13 pastels, 14 etchings, 47 sculp- 

 tures, and unclassed 92. 



Sweden, 214, of which 108 were oil paintings, 

 8 water colors, 11 pastels, 32 etchings, 19 sculp- 

 tures, and unclassified 36. 



Venezuela, 25 oil paintings. 



Medals awarded. The following is a list of 

 the awards to the artists of the various countries 

 which submitted their exhibits for consideration 

 by the board of judges. France, Belgium, Rus- 

 sia, and Norway did not compete. A single 

 grade of medal (bronze) was given, with a certifi- 

 cate. 



United States. Sculpture : John Donoghue, 

 Charles Grafly, Henry H. Kitson, Thomas 

 Ball, Robert P. Bringhurst, Herbert Adams, C. 

 E. Dallin, C. H. Niehaus, John Rogers, Ernil H. 

 Wuertz, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, F. Edwin 

 El well, J. J. Boyle, Edward Kemeys. Oil 

 Painting: John S. Sargent, Mark Fisher, George 

 de Forest Brush, Irving R. W T iles, Henry 0. 

 Walker, C. Y. Turner, Winslow Homer, East- 

 man Johnson, Robert Reid, C. A. Platt, J. Al- 

 den Weir, Robert W.Vonnoh, Theodore Robin- 

 son, Childe Hassam, Frederick W. Freer, George 

 Inness, Alfred Kappes, C. F. Ulrich, Horatio 

 Walker, J. McNeill Whistler, D. W. Tryon. 

 Wm. L. Picknell, D. Ridgway Knight, Louis P. 

 Dessar, Edwin H. Blashfield, Kenyon Cox, W. S. 

 Kendall, Ben Foster, F. Duvenick, Mary F. 

 MacMonnies, Charles C. Curran, Charles H. Da- 

 vis, Henry Bisbing, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frank 

 W. Benson, J. Francis Murphy, George Hitch- 

 cock, Edmund C. Tarbell, C. Morgan Mcllhenuey, 

 Abbott H. Thayer, Elihu Vedder, G. Ruger Don- 

 oho, E. E. Simmons, Thomas Eakins, Frederick 

 P. Vinton, Walter Palmer, Thomas W. Dewing, 

 Gilbert Gaul, H. Bolton Jones, Louis C. Tiffany, 

 Douglas Volk, Frederick S. Church, Orrin Peck, 

 Wm. H. Howe, Edwin A. Abbey, Leonard Ocht- 

 man, Thomas S. Clark. Water Color: W. T. 

 Smedley, J. H. Twachtman, Childe Hassam, 

 Sarah T. Sears,'C. Morgan Mcllhenney, Emma E. 

 Lampert, Clara T. McChesney, Kathleen H. 

 Greatorex. Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, August 

 Franzen, Louis C. Tiffany. Pastel : Julius Rols- 

 hoven, J. Appleton Brown, Rosina Emmett 

 Sherwood, Henry Muhrman, Birge Harrison. 

 Black and White : Gilbert Gaul, A. B. Wenzel, 

 Frederick Remington, W. T. Smedley, A. B. 

 Frost, Carleton T. Chapman, Thule De Thul- 

 strup, W. Hamilton Gibson, Edwin A. Abbey, 

 Howard Pyle, Will H. Low, A. C. Redwood, A. 

 Castaigne, C. S. Reinhart, Robert Blum, R. F. 

 Zogbaum, C. D. Gibson, Harry Fenn, Joseph Pen- 

 nell, W. S. Metcalf, Elizabeth Nourse, Caroline 

 A. Lord. Etching: Gustave Mercier, Mrs. M. 

 Nimmo Moran, Stephen Parrish, Charles A. 

 Platt, J. Alden Weir, J. McNeill Whistler. 

 Wood Engraving: Walter M. Aikman, Peter 

 Aitkin, Victor Bernstrom, W. B. Closson. Tim- 

 othy Cole, Edith Cooper, W. J. Dana, S. B. Da- 

 vis, E. H. Del'Orme, T. Johnson, Frank French, 



