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. The following interesting details relative to _ th efine ' antique bronze of " Victory" at Brescia , . of which the municipality of that town are _ ahout to present jrVfi ZJFZgSZpS « f f ^ VS ^ £ * 8 S ^* S % g fonim of the ancient Brixia , Aided by * ° ™* ? - tvri ^ hp cleared awav the rubbish , and found in . SSd & SSfbHKft which had been evidently destroyed by fire , a bronze statue , about eight feet high , in excellent preservation , and representing a Victory or a winged Muse writing on a shield . The most remarkable feature of this is its perfect famous statuknown the
Cicero and Agrippina . Canoya ' s statue of Napoleon I . was inaugurated at Milan on the 14 th mst . in the presence of Marshal Vaillant , on the part of the French people , and all the Sardinian officials . : The Greek Slave " has arrived at Kaby Castle , one of the grand palaces of our northern coal-owners , and has been placed in " the Baron ' s Hall . " A graven image of poor Feargus O'Connor , too , in Derbyshire stone , has been set up in the Nottingham Arboretum . A crowd of the working classes attended the ceremony , and at the necessary subsequent dinner Mr . Ernest Jones and others made some speeches , which were warmly received . The figure is seven feet high , and is draped as a
barrister . The second volume of the " Drawing-room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages , " published by the proprietors of the Illustrated News of the Worlds is before us . Among the notabilities pourtrayed and biographized are Dr . Gumming , Cardinal Wiseman , Hugh Stowell , Mademoiselle Tietjens , Madame C . Npvello , Lord Lyndhurst , Mr . Gladstone , and John Bright . Here , with a vengeance , doth " the lion lay down with the lamb . " As a contemporary amusingly observes , " the book completely realises the idea of a human ' Happy Family . ' "
. Wellington has , it appears , been making himself supremely ridiculous about it . His lachrymose appeal to Commissioner Mayne—who so far abetted " his dear Duke , " as to spend a policeman a-day upon him , for a while > out of the public money—has , no doubt , already amused our readers . The upshot of the matter will be , if we may trust his Grace , that unless the indicator , or the cabs , or the omnibuses , or the British public in general is put down , the grand ducal residence will be untenaritable-.-perhaps to let . "Et apres " we are certainly tempted to add : but without stopping to contemplate a consummation so devoutly to be deprecated ( by his Grace ) , let us ofFer the little scheme for remedy of the evil complained of , to which our readers owe the introduction here , by the ears , of the Indicator andits coronetted victim . Itseems tousthat ifthis worthy scion of the Mount-garrets , whose legitimate wooden has been disturbed
Complaints are rife , and not without some shadow of justice , against the Goodwin - Pocock management of the Art Union of London . The council of that institution have , since they found themselves clothed with power , and place , and patronage , in virtue of a Royal charter , taken to thel sin , common in such cases , of autocracy . A contemporary of the Daily Telegraph , who < taken the matter up well and warmly , tells us that , out of an income of jE 15 i 210 , they now expend but . £ ' 2 ,-7 . . or about one-sixth , in pictures . Now , if we remember well , oneof their great pleas for incorporation was that they had spent , were spending , and intended to spend from one-half to two-thirds
of their income in the purchase of pictures , The sums withdrawn from the art pictorial are now handed over to the speculator in copper plates , and the importer of foreign bronzes . To make a numerical parade of paintings , each grants is slender in amount . The unfortunate allottees are turned into the exhibitionrrobms , when the cream thereof has been gathered by dealers and dilettanti ; they find little of real value , when even they know it by sight : they consequently are apt to buy rubbish on compulsion or through ignoranceor , what is more
, pernicious , may leave the patronage in the hands of the officials . The public and the profession are , as we have already said , loud in their call for reform or for the repeal of a charter which they urge has become forfeit through the failure of the grantees to realise the promises on whose faith they obtained it . We shall hereafter allude to the scheme of an Artists' Art Union , with its possible advantages and demerits . As at present advised , we think the latter preponderate , but as the plan can hardly be called mature , it were better we should reserve our
judgment . The unpleasantly personal question as to -the fitness , of Mr . Scott to be the architect of the new Foreign Office is now succeeded in many quarters by ¦ that , whether the Gothic style is the most or least fit for the purpose . The quarrel is a pretty one . Pretty men on one side are contending that the Gothic is a national style : pretty men on the other side say that it is foreign . Some say to use it for an office were simply desecration : others that it is architecturally unfit , as favouring darkness and inconvenience of rooms . That the latter position is true we can avor from much personal acquaintance with the interior of the Parliament houses . We arc privately of opinion that it is more agreeable to the eye than either the Greek or Italian style , but we fear that on business grounds the Italian
style must eventually be adopted . Tho cry about deseoration is all humbug : and we must hero leave the matter to wiser heads and idler hands than our own . But should the doctors difler—let thom agree to differ till crack of doom , ere they call in such tempestuous arbiters as Sir Charles Barry and Mr . Amateur Clockmaker Counsellor Denieon . The latter of these firebrands will , if ho scolds much longer about tho former , become positively and personally uncivil . His normal state is not one of lukowarmness , and he is now at very nearly boilingpoint . But flieso two artists having now come to public literary flstiouffs , the suffering public have some chance of gratifying their curiosity as to the cost of the Westminster clock and bolls . The disputants have entered upon figures already . Those who wait patiently will learn more .
Quasi lucup b non tycendo , Messrs ,, Ponsonby and Cp . ' a much , abused indicator may bo conslderea worthy of a paragraph in a Fine Art column . Tins artless edifice is , wo fancy , destined yet to flouridii , and will owe its permanency less to its own merits
resemblance to the s as Venus of Milo , which had been found about four years before in an island of the Archipelago . The likeness is far too dose to be accidental ; it is evident one was copied from the other , or both from some common original . The only difference between them is found in the drapery . The bust of the Brescian statue instead of being nude , is covered with a close tunic most admirably executed , its light and delicate folds contrasting strongly with the heavy tissue of the peplum which envelopes the statue of Milo . The head-dress , features , expression of the countenance , and attitude are exactly alike in the two ; but the foot is broken off in the Venus Of Milo , while in the Victory of Brescia it is perfect , and rests on a crushed hemlet . In the left hand the
latter holds a shield , while the right is writing or pointing to a name written on it . In the bronze folds of the Brescian statue a bronze statuette , about twenty inches high , was found ; but What it represents or -why it was concealed there the antiquarians of Brescia have not been able to explain ; perliaps those of Paris may be more fortunate . " The eighteenth and last day ' s sale of Lord Northwick ' s magnificent collection took place on Wed ^ nesday last at § Thirlstane House . It consisted mainly of works from the family residence , Northwick Park , Worcestershire ; and brought 3 , 760 ? . The total amount realised on _ the sale has reached the sum of 95 , 725 / . ; a sum unparalleled in the records of fine art auctions in this country .
A meritorious historical picture of important dimensions has been privately exhibited during the last few days , by Mr . Maguire , of Wimpole-street , the artist . The subject is " Cromwell refusing the Crown of England" to the deputation who presented to him , at Whitehall , what was then termed the " humble petition and advice" of the EZmghts , Burgesses , and Citizens assembled in Parliament . The work has been painted on commission for a publisher , Who will shortly exhibit it ; when we also shall be better prepared than at present ! to speak of it critically . —M . Metssonnier , the celebrated French artist who has been ordered to leave his well accustomed field , the boudoir , for the delineation of incidents
connected with the late Italian campaign , has been ordered to place himself en disponabtlite . Should all go . well at Zurich , ho is to move , they say , uppn Vienna , there to take the likenesses of the Austrian Emperor , and other actors in the Villafranca farce . This story has a strong flavour of canard . —The will of the late Jacob Bell has been proved at Doctors Commons . Among other liberal bequests is one to which we have before alluded , namely , of the following very valuable pictures to the National Collection , Viz , ' ? The Derby Day , " " Tho Maid and the Magpie , " " Shoeing , " " Sleeping Bloodhound , " " Alexander and Diogenes , " " Dignity and Impudence , " "Highland Dogs "—these five last named arc by Sir Edwin Xandseer—" Defeat of Comus , " "Horse
¦ FaixV " Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman , " by Leslie , " Bloodhound and Pups , " " River Scene , " and "Evening in the Meadows , " by Lee and Cooper , '•• James II . receiving the News of the Landing of the Prince of Orange , " by E . M . Ward , " Foundling " , by G . B . O'Neill , " Bathers , " by Etj ; y , " Bibliomania , " by W . Douglas . Frith's " Derby Day , " Landseor ' s "Alexander and Diogenes , " and Douglas ' s " Bibliomania , " are all veritable treasures . If we mistake not , we indicated thom as the most remarkable works in tho selection recently exhibited by the late Mr . Bell at the Marylebone Institute . The two first named works are familiar enough to all the ¦ w orld ; but tho name of tho excellent hand ( now no more ) , that painted tho " Bibliomania , " is hardly known even among artists .
The Neapolitan exhibition of the works of living artists , originally fixed for the month of June , but which Italian troubles , and the recent preoccupation or Italian minds have caused to be postponed , will open definitively , we believe , onjilje first proximo . The xnuaeum at Naples has beMknrichea by the addition of several important ! wtoks in bronizo discovered afew days ago by some excavators near Pompqll . Xhey comprise a statue of Apollo , and busts of
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inheritance—the spoonby his fortuitous birth with a service of plate in his mouth , could only contemplate the surrender of one tittle to that public who have so largely endowed him , he might secure the equanimity of the highblooded coursers whose tempers are now spoilt by the adjacent cabby ; secure Ms own neck from the fate he dreads ; and perhaps " live very ^ happy ev er after . " If the gates of Apsley House were removed altogether , and the noble proprietor were content to live flush with the street like the rest of the world , or the majority of them ; and if the space thus gained were devoted to the service of the public by giving width to the road , we should hear no more of "the sharpturn into the park , " the " dawdling cab , " « my irritable horse , " " iny dear Sir Richard . " As for lynching the poor indicator , we are glad to find no fresh suggestion on the subject in the last published batch of the new Duke ' s despatches , and so far we congratulate his Grace on his prudent reserve . '¦' ¦' .
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; '¦ - ? - The famous " Uoyal Property" of Vauxball has been sold again , and , we understand , in the words of the auctioneer , " for the very last time . " A horde of frenzied brokers tore and trampled about the walks and haunts of Clarindas ., Lucindas , Modishes , and Lady Bettys of old days , an * depreciated with unwashed paws the faded remnants of Vauxhall grandeur , that they lusted to remove then and . there in their spring carts . For all that , the objects put up to auction could hardly , by stretch of courtesy , be called classical or articles of vertu . There are fewmore ruinousless romantic-looking things than a
, dilapidated tea-garden , and the " properties " went in most cases for what they were worth—an " old song . " If there be enthusiasts who would derive zest from drinking beer that had run through the old Vauxhall engine , or whose heels would gain spring from waltzing on a ci-devant Vauxhall platform , we dare say such articles will be found , on more minute inquiry than we are at liberty to make , in some of the many suburban lust-gartens , Tho ground will bo immediately cleared for building , and in a few weeks the dealers in old materials will
have left not a wrack behind . The Bradford Festival opened oh Tuesday evening with Mr . Costa ' s arrangement of the National Anthem , followed by Haydn ' s " Creation ;; " the principal singers be ing Madame Novello , Mr .- Sjms Keeves , Madame Sherrington , Signor Jk-UettJ , Mr . Wilbye Cooper , and Mr . Santley . To enter here into any lengthened description of the oratonp or of the perfections of these artists would only tiro the reader ; we therefore confine ourselves to stating that tho programme wo gave last week hns been earned out to the extreme delight of the Yorkslure Connoisseurs , who are no mean judges of choral music , and to the complete satisfaction of tho metropolitan critics , and professionals present , who vie with each other in the admiration of Mr Costu ' s conducting . Superb weather attracted crowds of county foflhlonabfcs to the handsome music hall , and , ns might be expected in a manufacturing town ol such importance aT vast mpb into tho streets . Tho latter , as the cSirnossofthefUir sex at Bradford somewhat Xing ; was by no means tho least agreeable feature of tho festival week . The hundred ana thirty-sixth meeting < tf . the three choirs of Gloucester , Worcester , and Hereford , for the bonofltof widows an $ orphans of clergy in those three dioceses is advertised to take place at Gloucester , cntlio Wth of September and throe followingtoy * . On the first day , Tuosday , the festival will commence with full choral service . On Wednesday wSK liven the " Elijah" of Mendelssohn » on Thursday , Itossinl ' s " Stabat Mater , " and Spohr ' a " Last Judgment ; » on Friday , Handel ' s " Messiah , " i and on tho first three evenings grand miscellaneous concerts at the Shire Hall . The principal vocaliete
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081859/page/11/
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