George Wishart : Art Notes

ro7Art-lirti., nelittee, of the New i held on Thursday 'ones studin. one ems. Addison mai- l. Moroney. Ines. oil, and relelough. rd letters from the renting to open the ml from the Bris- II. granting the use eently occupied by r. Bub -committees lay out the va.rions rtion with the exhi"- there are reminded .'e next Friday and liesentative of the CI, to receive the ex-; croon, Miss Muriel WI, and Mr. Karl ' members of the GENIUS. !mint o ce invited It at Petetorth and him of some favour- the estate. it of his visit Lord '11P1' what he should peat painter replied at breakfast Lord rain what it would and he replied that so much yesterday, ing Lord Eferemont it for Turner to an - is, and was greatly Icy said he was again Lord Egremont, utiety, said : "Well; too glad for you to at are talking of go - and 1 feel anxious o my room," said mind at rest." ed the surprise and pent when Turner V) exquisite pictures iced. The great man tit with the sun, and , by a good day's inre in fishing. IT DEAD. IART, SENIOR. Robert Wishart, ensland loses an - was highly re - here she has re- nt. ;Ars. Wishart, husband, came to rho ship Golden tat portion of the men as Red Ilia. -Mears. A. C. Process Depart- I,aper GornpanY), Wisluirt, jun., Fred Wishart. The in her hueband'e xi, Red Hill, to- m Toonvong Genie - 11 flit, Witall-711.11"effiffigrr- visited in 1905 by 49023 peraerisa- or an average OE 2412 a day. lihat is not a bad siersora of y-srtileers on t kap in-eak w t hen Arne hinks he millions mil- lions of people in London. There must he a very large number mho have never entered the portals of the gallery. The Tate Gallery had 184,241 visitors. Apoll taken by one of the Melbourne papers indicated that the snout popiwular tilting in the Melbourne Gallery is 1 ly I3utler's " Quatre Bras." On hearing this .1sady Butler expressed her gratification, and said she had often wished to be re- presented by more than one picture in .Avstralia. Achanoe for the Queensland Gallery. * Thefts of valuable paintings are not of frequent occurrence, but they do hapset'', and stealing an " old master"is almost ns payable s abducting a millionaire, and probably mudh safer. Quite re- cently a clever piece of larceny was cam enittedst the Brussels Gallery of Modern Ranters. Just before closing time it was discovered that one of the frames was empty, though the border ofwhat had been the canvas was left, Evidently the picture had been out out, rolled up, and taken Merry. The stolen painting is a por- trait of the Duke of Alba, by Ingres. It represented the Duke in profile, and -was considered in its way a very tine work., Considered merely from the standpoint of smartness and effieiency, the coup isre- gardei as one of the finest ever recorded in Brussels, though that does not mOon- cile public feeling to the loss of one of its treasures. An alarm was ap 'once raised, the doors were placed under guard, and close scrutiny was taken of every- body leaving the 'building. But no trace of the thief or the picture could be found. Strang -1y enough Holman Runt is not represented in the l3ritiali National Gal- lery ; his most famous pictures are in other [hands. Recently his "Lady of Shalott," came into the market, and an appeal was :node to the National Art Col- lection Fund for assistance to purchase it The acquisition oP the "Rokeby Velas: quoz," however, had exhausted its. re sources for the present, so it was unable to give any help, Public spiritedness, as in the eacre of the Velasquez, will probably solve the question, for in the cause of the National Art Collection there is a good deal of enthusiasm. The price asked 'for "The Lady of Shalott" is 8000 guineas. The picture represents the Lady of Shalott at the moment the curse comes upon her :- out flew the web and florttNt wide, The mirror cracked from side to side "The curse Is come upon fine," cried The Lady of Shutoff. And it ReP11151, says a writer, to have blown her hair bout in a. mariner so remarkable that Tennyson complained that there seas no authority for it in the poem, Whatever may be said about the hair, however, it remains a wonderful picture, a veritable mastmrpiece, illustrating, as the artist toys. " the failure of the [human soul towards its atcepted responsibility." -anseememem....,19-mmutenrielN.e.St: