ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1951, 11 April 1889, Page 34

ART AND ARTISTS.

One of Delacroix' pictures, J" The Trinmph of Trajan," originally sold for £180 is now valued by the Rouen Museum at 30,000 One of the most noted, collections of Spanish pictures is that of the Duke of Dorcal, who is said to possess no fewer than 10 original Murillos. Miss Maiy K. Longfellow, a niece of the poet, is attracting notic,e. in America as a painter of picturesque harbour views, made in light water-colours. She has spent several years of study on her specialty. A fine granite monument, Bft high, to be erected inLondon as a memorial of Jenny Lind, has just been completed in Aberdeen. It is appropriately made of Swedish granite, polished, the design being that of a highlyomamented plinth, surmounted by an lonic cross. . • . • - It has just been discovered that two pictures in the British National Gallery— one the " Reconciliation- of the Romans and Sabines," and the other <; The Continence of Scipio," were put into the wrong "frames, so that each has been labled with the name of the other for several years. ■ Italian and. German papers report that a celebrated picture of Raphael, an altar, piece in the Church of St. Peter, in Perugia, representing the " Entombment of Christ," has been stolen from its place. Warning notices have been sent to the principal galleries, and it is expected that some trace of the thief will be obtained in this way. . .', j Delphi, in Greece, associated with Apollo and the Amphictyonic Council, has been offered to the United States for the purpose of explorations. The Germans have Olympia, the site of the most famous temple of Jupiter* ; the Greeks are working at the Acropolis in Athens; and the English in other places. France, Germany, and England have had I schools in Greece for study and exploration' for some years, An American school has been maintained for six . years, since its foundation by the Archaeological Institute, supported by contributions from American colleges ill able to give. Delphi is regarded as the richest of all sites, and it . can' now be ,hadforßO f OoOdol ; „ , > .. '