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from the collection of Henry Wilkinson for 

 221. The name of the purchaser, who in 1902 

 paid 5,600 guineas for it, was not disclosed. 

 The following brought 1,000 and more: 



P. de Hooghe, Interior with Figures 1.350 



Sir H. Raeburn, Portrait of Lady 1,300 



Portrait of Miss Graham 1,250 



Child with Basket of Cherries 1,250 



R. P. Bonington, Fisher Boys on Beach 1,250 



C. Fielding, Bolton Abbey 1,200 



Sir E. Burne-Jones, Wheel of Fortune 1,155 



J. Constable, Giliingham Mill 1,150 



T. Gainsborough, Portrait of Squire Rowe 1,150 



.J, Crome, Nortolk Landscape 1,150 



G. Morland, Carrier's Stable 1,100 



Rembrandt, Portrait of Lady 1,050 



F. Francia, Madonna and Child 1,000 



New York: National Academy of Design. 

 The officers-elect for the year are: President, 

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

 Corresponding Secretary, Harry W. Watrous; Re- 

 cording Secretary, Will H. Low; Treasurer, Lock- 

 wood De Forest. The Council consists of Fran- 

 cis C. Jones, Irving R. Wiles, A. C. Howland, 

 George H. Yewell, Herbert Adams, and R. Swain 

 Gifford. 



The following new academicians and associates 

 were chosen: Academicians: Edwin A. Abbey, 

 ecilia Beaux, J. W. Alexander, Henry O. 

 Walker, and Thomas Eakins. Associates: Birge 

 Harrison, Wilton Lockwood, George Grey Bar- 

 nard, Joseph De Camp, Charles Niehaus, Elliott 

 Daingerfield, Henry B. Snell, Albert Ryder, and 

 William Gedney Bunce. This brings the list of 

 academicians up to 100 and of associates to 91. 



The seventy-seventh annual exhibition (Jan. 

 3 to Jan. 31) was held, like that of last year, in 

 the galleries of the Fine Arts Society. The an- 

 nual prizes awarded were: The Thomas B. Clarke 

 prize of $300, for the best American figure com- 

 position, to Elliott Daingerfield, for his Story 

 of the Madonna ; the first Julius Hallgarten prize 

 ($300) to E. Irving Couse's Indian picture The 

 Peace Pipe; the second Hallgarten prize ($200) 

 to Louis Loeb, for his picture The Mother; and 

 the third Hallgarten prize ($100) to Will Howe 

 Foote, for The Blue Vase. The Inness gold 

 medal was awarded to Walter Clarke, for his 

 Gloucester Harbor, a charming view of the har- 

 bor at low tide. The Norman W. Dodge prize 

 ($300) for the best picture painted by a woman 

 was not awarded, and is said to have been dis- 

 continued. 



Among the most noteworthy pictures in the 

 exhibition were Irving R. Wiles's portrait of 

 Julia Marlowe, representing the actress seated 

 on a sofa looking straight out of the canvas, and 

 J. W. Alexander's The Piano, an interior with a 

 young matron seated at the instrument and in 

 the background the husband with his head rest- 

 ing upon his hand, a picture with a story-tell- 

 ing quality which appeals to every one. Other 

 pictures deserving of mention are J. G. Brown's 

 An Old Vermonter, W. C. Fitler's Meadows in 

 June, Bruce Crane's November Morn, Charles 

 Schreyvogel's Going for Reenforcements, Henry 

 Mosler's Sans Souci, F. A. Bridgman's The Se- 

 cluded Wood, Charles C. Curran's A Mountain 

 Vista, Edward Gay's Black Creek, Will H. Low's 

 The Elysian Lawn, Gustave H. Mosler's Fidelity, 

 Dwight F. Boyden's Moonrise Holland, and 

 Carleton Wiggins's Crossing the Moors. 



New York: Society of American Artists. 

 The Board of Control for the year consists of: 

 President, John La Farge; Vice-President, Ken- 

 yon Cox; Secretary, Bruce Crane; Treasurer, 

 Samuel Isham; and Bolton Jones. The society 

 consists of 112 members. 



The twenty-fourth annual exhibition was held 



in the Fine Arts Society Building from March 28 

 to May 4. The annual prize of $300, instituted 

 in 1887 by Dr. W. Seward Webb, for the best 

 landscape by an American artist under forty 

 years of age, was awarded to H. Bolton Jones, 

 for his picture Early Spring. The Julia A. Shaw 

 memorial prize ($300), founded by Samuel T. 

 Shaw in place of the fund instituted by him in 

 1892, for the best figure composition painted in 

 oil by an American woman, was awarded to Miss 

 Mary F. Macmonnies, for her Blossom Time in 

 Normandy. The Carnegie prize ($500), founded 

 by Andrew Carnegie for the most meritorious 

 oil-painting in the exhibition by an American 

 artist, was awarded to J. Francis Murphy, for his 

 October Fog. 



The exhibition consisted of 318 numbers, of 

 which 295 were paintings. Among the exhibit- 

 ors were J. McNeill Whistler, L'Andalousienne ; 

 William M. Chase, Portrait of Louis Windmiil- 

 ler; Cecilia Beaux, Portrait; John W. Alexander, 

 A Mother; Winslow Homer, Northeaster; Ken- 

 yon Cox, Portrait; Thomas Eakins, Cardinal 

 Martinelli; Augustus St. Gaudens, Medallion 

 Portraits; and Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, My 

 Daughter. 



New York: Metropolitan Museum. The 

 annual rearrangement of collections in May was 

 attended with the usual loan exhibitions, the 

 most important of which was the collection of 

 George W. Vanderbilt, consisting of most of the 

 foreign pictures acquired by the late William H. 

 Vanderbilt. Among these are some of the best 

 works of the modern French school, including 

 fine examples of Meissonier, Rousseau, Millet, 

 Dupre, Diaz, Cabanel, Fromentin, GerOme, Bon- 

 nat, and others. Among the gifts to the museum 

 is the famous Holy Family by Rubens, portions of 

 which are attributed to his celebrated pupil Van 

 Dyck, presented by James Henry Smith, and a 

 portrait of the artist Vanderlin, bequeathed by 

 C. V. Sidell. The Rubens was bought at the 

 Matthiessen sale for $50,000. 



On Dec. 22 \vas formally opened the new wing 

 of the museum, which includes the splendid 

 fagade on Fifth Avenue, the work of the late 

 Richard M. Hunt. The exercises consisted of 

 brief addresses of delivery and acceptance by the 

 president of the Department of Parks and the 

 president of the trustees of the museum, and an 

 address by Mayor Low. The new wing is to be 

 devoted principally to sculpture. 



New York: Picture Sales. The collection of 

 paintings of Mrs. P. C. Hanford, sold by the 

 American Art Association, Jan. 30, brought in 

 the aggregate $124,135. The principal picture 

 sold, Rembrandt's portrait of a scrivener, entitled 

 The Accountant, was bought by a dealer for 

 $23,000, a low price as Rembrandts go. Though 

 several of the master's portraits have changed 

 hands at private sales, this is the first one to 

 appear in a public sale since The Gilder of the 

 Schaus sale several years ago. Other pictures 

 brought good prices, as Rousseau's Marsh in 

 Spring, $11,000; Troyon's Landscape with Cat- 

 tle, $10,000; De Neuville's Trumpeter, $4,600; 

 Jacques's Watering the Sheep, $3,500; Diaz's In 

 the Harem, $4,400; Holbein the Younger's Por- 

 trait of an Ecclesiastic, $4,000; and Cuyp's Cava- 

 liers in Holland, $4.600. A Murillo, The Immacu- 

 late Conception, which is said to have cost its 

 owner $20,000, brought only $8,700. 



Mr. E. F. Milliken's collection, sold Feb. 14, 

 brought in total receipts $128,325. The two most 

 notable pictures were Titian's portrait of Giorgio 

 Cornaro, bought by Durand-Ruel for $42.000, and 

 Corot's St. Sebastian, bought by Cottier & Co. for 



