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FINE ARTS IN 1900. 



London: Miscellaneous. The sale of the col- 

 lection of Sir Robert Peel, on May 10 and 11, 

 including both paintings and sculptures, produced 

 a total of 62,500. Of the former, two Van Dycks, 

 portraits of a Genoese senator, said to be Barto- 

 lommeo Giustiaiinini, and his wife, brought 24,- 

 250. This is the record price, says the London 

 Art Journal, for a Van Dyck in the auction room, 

 though the equestrian portrait of Charles I, now 

 in the National Gallery, was bought in 1884 by the 

 Government from the Duke of Marl borough for 

 17,500. Other sales were: Portrait of Marie An- 

 toinette, doubtfully attributed to Greuze, 1,350 

 guineas. Sir Pete/ Lely, portrait of Cowley (the 

 author), 670 guineas; Nell Gwynne, 650 guineas; 

 Countess of Kildare, 650 guineas. Thomas Phil- 

 lips, portrait of Byron, 300 guineas. Sir Thomas 

 Laurence, portrait of Curran, 850 guineas. John 

 Hoppner, portrait of himself, 1,500 guineas. Gains- 

 borough, portrait of Sir William Blackstone, 750 

 guineas. Reynolds, portrait of Dr. Johnson, 420 

 guineas. William Collins, Winter Scene on the 

 Thames, 2,000 guineas; Morning after a Storm, 

 1,500 guineas. Landseer, The Shepherd's Prayer, 

 750 guineas. Mulready, The Cannon, 1,240 guin- 

 eas. Charles Lucy, Lord Nelson on the Victory, 

 400 guineas. B. R. Haydon, Napoleon at St. 

 Helena, 400 guineas. Of the sculptures, Sir Francis 

 Chantrey's splendid bust of Sir Walter Scott sold 

 for 2,250. Thorwaldsen's Apollo as a Shepherd 

 brought 600 guineas. 



At the James Reiss sale, May 12, a good example 

 of Hobbema, View of a Water Mill, brought 6,200 

 guineas, and a Rembrandt, Bridge over a Canal, 

 2,200 guineas. 



Among other sales of the year were: Romney, 

 portrait of Charlotte Peirse, 7,000 guineas; por- 

 trait of Sophia Lawrence, 2,900 guineas. Gains- 

 borough, Woody Lane with Peasant and Donkeys, 

 1,170 guineas. Sir John Everett Millais, Boyhood 

 of Raleigh, 5,200 guineas; The Moon is up and 

 yet it is not Night, 1,000 guineas. Lord Leighton, 

 Helios and Rhodes, 2,750 guineas. Meissonier, The 

 Standard Bearer, 2,500 guineas. Troyon, Land- 

 scape with Cattle, 2,550 guineas; The Plough, 

 1,900 guineas. J. F. Millet, The Sower, 850 

 guineas. 



The sale of the collection of the late Mme. de 

 Falbe, on May 19, produced a total of 13,484. 

 Among the pictures were: Gainsborough, portrait 

 of Mrs. Hartley, 300 guineas; Opie, Fortune Teller, 

 1,200 guineas; Boucher, Marie Leczinska intro- 

 duced to the Domestic Virtues (dated 1740), 970 

 guineas; Rubens, Repose of Holy Family, 500 

 guineas ; Velasquez, portrait of Henry de Halmale, 

 405 guineas; Hobbema, Village Scene, 400 guineas. 



The chief art event of the season was the open- 

 ing of the magnificent Wallace collection, be- 

 queathed by Lady Wallace to the Government, 

 on June 25, at Hertford House, Manchester Square. 

 The scope of the collection, made by the third and 

 fourth Marquises of Hertford and by Sir Richard 

 Wallace, is immense. It contains more than 20 

 (ireu/es and 9 Watteaus, while almost all the 

 great painters of all the schools are well repre- 

 sented. Of the Spanish school there are 6 ex- 

 amples by Velasquez and 8 by Murillo. The 

 Italian school is represented by Titian's Rape of 

 Kuropa (replica, the original being in Mrs. Gar- 

 diners collection in Boston) and Perseus and An- 

 dnmieda (from the Orleans gallery), and impor- 

 tant examples by Luini, Andrea del Sarto, Domeni- 

 chino, Canaletto, and Guardi. The collection has 

 11 Rubenses, including the famous Rainbow Land- 

 scape, and 7 Van Dycks. Rembrandt is repre- 

 sented by 11 canvases and Franz Hals by only 1, 

 but an exceptionally fine one, The Laughing Cav- 



alier. The examples of the other great Dutch 

 painters are all superior. The English school and 

 the modern French school are also superbly repre- 

 sented. It has been calculated that the entire 

 collection, including arms, bric-a-brac, etc., is 

 worth $18,000,000. The admission is free except- 

 ing on Saturday afternoons, when a fee of sixpence 

 is charged. 



New York: National Academy of Design. 

 The officers for 1900 are as follow: President, 

 Frederick Dielman; Vice-President, J. G. Brown; 

 Corresponding Secretary, H. W. Watrous; Re- 

 cording Secretary, George H. Smillie; Treas- 

 urer, Lockwood de Forest; Council, H. Bolton 

 Jones, J. Carroll Beckwith, C. D. Weldon, B. West 

 Clinedinst, C. Y. Turner, H. Siddons Mowbray. 

 The Academy consists of 98 academicians and 58 

 associates. 



The seventy-fifth annual exhibition was held, 

 Jan. 1 to Jan. 27, in the galleries of the Fine Arts 

 Society building in Fifty-seventh Street, pending 

 the removal of the Academy to its new home on 

 Morningside Heights. It comprised 313 numbers, 

 of which 298 were paintings. The prizes of the 

 year were awarded as follow: The Thomas B. 

 Clarke prize of $300, for the best American figure 

 composition painted in the United States by an 

 American citizen, to Charles Schreyvogel, of Ho- 

 boken, N. J., for his spirited painting entitled My 

 Bunkie, representing an American cavalryman at 

 full gallop carrying a wounded comrade out of 

 range in an Indian fight. The Norman W. Dodge 

 prize of $300, for the best picture painted in the 

 United States by a woman, to Phoabe A. Bunker, 

 for her October at Cedar Brook. The Julius Hall- 

 garten prizes, $300, $200, and $100, for the best 

 three pictures in oil colors painted in the United 

 States by American citizens under thirty-five years 

 of age: First prize to Louis Paul Dessar, for his 

 Landscape with Sheep ; second to E. Irving Couse, 

 for his Adoration of the Shepherds; third to W. 

 Granville-Smith, for his Light of the House. 



Among the exhibits besides those to which 

 prizes were awarded were: Daniel Huntington, 

 portraits of Carl Schurz, Morris K. Jesup, and Dr. 

 J. W. McLane; John F. Weir, East Rock New- 

 Haven, November Landscape, and Hollyhocks; 

 George H. Smillie, At Cotuit Cape Cod, Road to 

 the Lighthouse Northeast Coast; Eastman John- 

 son, portraits of Whitelaw Reid, Gen. Thomas 

 Davies, and Edward Lyman; Gilbert Gaul, War; 

 Childe Hassam, The Flower Shop; George Inness, 

 Jr., Sheep in Pasture; Irving R. Wiles, A Long 

 Island Road, A Summer Interior; Clara T. Mc- 

 Chesney, portrait of Moncure D. Conway ; Charles 

 Warren Eaton, September Moonrise, Valley at 

 Sunset; Thomas Moran, The Teton Range Idaho. 

 The Cliff Dwellers Arizona, The Pearl of Venice: 

 J. Wells Champney, Fair Nineteen; F. A. Britlj.-- 

 man, In the Oasis; Henry Mosler, Day Dreams; 

 Arthur Parton, An Old Orchard, Arkville Meai 

 ows; E. L. Henry, Home from the Philippines. 1 



A new annual prize for each Academy exhibition 

 has been founded by George Inness, Jr., in memory 

 of his father, to be called the George Inness Medal. 

 It consists of a gold medal of the value of $10'), 

 and is to be awarded to the best painting without 

 regard to subject. 



New York: Society of American Artists. 

 The twenty-second annual exhibition was held ;n 

 the Fine Arts Society building, from March 24 M 

 April 28. The officers for 1900 are: President, 

 John La Farge; Vice-President, Kenyon Co>;; 

 Secretary, Douglas Volk: Treasurer. Samuel Ishain. 

 These, together with Kdwin 11. lilashlield, con- 

 siilnte Ilie Hoard of Control. Advisory Board 

 Herbert Adams, William Bailey Faxon, Kenneth 



