ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1899, 13 April 1888, Page 32

ART AND ARTISTS.

The Hamburg Art Museum has offered 19,000 marks for Ludwig Knaus' small but excellent painting " The Starost."

There has been presented to Mr Gladstone a picture measuring 15ft x 4ft, representing him in the act of handing over the restored Market Cross of Edinburgh to the city authorities.

" Never roll up an oil painting with the reverse side out," says an artist. "Ifit is raining or snowing, the wetting of the reverse side will make the paint in front peel off. Don't be afraid to have the paint outside, if you must roll."

The Queen will lend her two famous Hogarths — the picture of " The Mall," and the portrait group of " David Garrick and his Wife "" — to the forthcoming Exhibition of the Earlier English Art at the Grosvenor Gallery.

The celebrated painting of General U. S. Grant by Antrobus, painted on the battle of Chattanooga in 1863, a few days previous to the battle of Missionary Ridge, has been removed from the rotunda of the United States Capitol to New York by the owners, who desire to dispose of it for the benefit of the Grant monument fund.

The etching of Munkacsy's painting, " Christ on Calvary," shows a feature which must be even more remarkably expressed in the painting itself. This is the contrast between the physical development of the figure of Christ and that of the two thieves. While they are coarse figures, the central one is that of the highest type of refinement.

A monument to the Czar Alexander II is to be erected in Moscow at a cost of £50,000. But great difficulty is encountered in getting a satisfactory model. For the third time a prize has been offered, but none of the 32 sketches received met with the approval of the committee. This leads a Mimich paper to comment unfavourably on the state of art affairs in Russia.

The monument to be erected by the British communities on the field of Waterloo will be the work of Oornte de Lalaing, one of the most gifted of the younger Belgian sculptors, ltrepresentsonapedestala kneeling figure of Britannia, with her head bent down, as if mourning for her children, and still watching over them in their death sleep. At tho base of the monument are three lions couchant in varied attitudes. The effect of the whole is grand and serious, and altogether free from modern tawdriness.

According to art records for 1887, the highest price ever given for any portrait at an auction was obtained at the Lonsdale sale, London, for Boucher's ;< Pompadour." The sum paid was £10,395, and the bidder was supposed to be acting oh behalf of Baron Rothschild. Gainsborough's "The Sisters" was the only dCher picture which approached this in price ; it realised £9975. Turner's "Van Goven " had the next highest reputation, as measured by the competition of the auction room, where it commanded £6825. Sir John Millais was not only the highest esteemed of living artists at the year's sales, but the price given for his " Over the Hills and Far Away " (£5250) exceeded that paid for the other two Gainsboroughs that were in the market, and also for Turner's " Mercury and Argus."

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