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^ The following interesting details relative to the fine antique bronze of « Victory" at Brescia , of which the municipality of that town are about to present a oast to the French Government , ^ re condensed from the Gazette de JLyon : — " Xn 1852 , a learned Brescian archaeologist discovered some remains ^ of a temple , dedicated to Vespasian , opposite the forum of the ancient Brixia . Aided by the authorities , he cleared away the rubbish , and found in the middle of the building , which had been evidently destroyed by fire , a bronze statue , about eight feet high , in excellent preservation , and representing . a Victory or awinged Muse writing o ^ a shield . The feature of this is its perfect
most remarkable resemblance to the famous statue known as the Venus of Milo , which had been found about four years before in an island of the Archipelago . The likeness is far too close 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 ; perhaps those of Paris may be more fortunate . " The eighteenth and last day ' s sale of Xord Northwick ' s magnificent collection took place on Wednesday last at | Thirlstane House . It consisted mainly of works from the family residence , Northr wick Park , Worcestershire ; and brought 3 , 750 ? 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 Knights , 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 . Meissonnier , 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 , lie is to move , they say , upon 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 Tory valuable pictures to the National Collection , Viz , " The Derby Day , " " The Maid and the Magpie , " " Shoeing , " " Sleeping Bloodhound , " " Alexander and Diogenes , " " Dignity and Impudence , " ?' Highland Dogs "—these five last named are by Sir Edwin Landseer—" Defeat of Cornus , " " Horse Fair , " ? ' Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman , " by
Leslie , ?• Bloodhound and Pups , " " River Scene , " and « Evening in the Meadows , " by Lee and Cooper , tf Jamea II . receiving the News of the Landing of the Prince of Orange , " by E . M . Ward , " Foundling " , by G . B , O'Neill , "Bathers , " by Etty , "Bibliomania , " by W . Douglas . Frith'e Derby Day , " Landseer ' a ' Alexander and Diogenes , " and Douglas ' s " Bibliomania , " aro all veritable treasures . If we mistake not , wo indicated thorn as the most remarkable works in the selection recently exhibited by the late Mr . Boll at the Marylebone Institute . The two first named works are familiar enough to all the world j but the name of the excellent hand ( now no more ) that painted tlio " Bibliomania , " is hardly known even among artists ,
Cicero and Agrippina . Canova ' s Napoleon I . was inaugurated at Milan on the 14 th inst . in the presence of Marshal Vaillant , on the part of the French people , and all the Sardinian officials . The " Greek Slave ** has arrived at Raby 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 bytee proprietors of the Illustrated News of the World , is before us . Among the notabilities pourtrayed and biographized are Dr . Cumming , Cardinal Wiseman , Hugh Stowell , Mademoiselle Tietjens , Madame C . Novello , 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 . '"
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 the \ sin , common in such eases , of autocracy . A contemporary of the Daily Telegraph , who has taken the matter up well and . warmly , tells us that , out of an income of £ 15 , 210 , they now expend but £ 2 , 700 : or about one-sixth , in pictures . Now , if we remember well , one of their great pleasfor 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 exhibition-rooms , 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 ignorance , or , 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 Ofl&ce 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 aide 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 aver from muoh personal acquaintance with tho interior of the Parliament houses . We are privately of opinion that it is more agreeable to the oyo than either the Greek or Italian style , but we fear that on businqss grounds the Italian
style must eventually bo adopted . Tho cry about desecration is all humbug : and we must hero leave the matter to wiser heads and idiot hands than our own . But should the doctors differ— . let thorn agree to differ till crack of doom , ere they call in such tempestuous arbiters as Sir Charles Barry and Mr . Amateur Clockmaker Counsellor Denison . Tho latter of these firebrands will , if he scolds much longer about tho former , become positively and personally uncivil . His normal state is not ono of luUewarmneae , and ho is now at very nearly boiling point . But those two artists having now come to publio literary fisticuffs , the Buffering public have sorao chance of gratifying their curiosity as to tho cost of tho Westminster clock and bolls . The disputants have entered upon figures already . Those who wait patiently willloara more .
Quasi luoua cLnon lucendo ,, Messrs . Ponsonby and Co , ' s muoh abused indicator may be considered worthy of a paragraph in a Fine Art column , J / nis artless edifice is , wo fanoy , destined yet to flourwn , ana will owe its permanency less to its own merits
The Neapolitan exhibition of the works of living artists , originally fixed for the month of June ,, but which Italian troubles , and . the recent preoccupation of Italian minds have caused to be postponed , will open definitively , wo believe , on the first proximo , The museum at Naples has been enriohea by tho Addition of several important works in bronze discovered a few days ago by some excavators near Pompeii . ¦ They comprise a statue of Apollo , and busts of
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. » . The famous " Royal Property " of Vauxhall has been sold again , and , we understand , in the words oi 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 , and 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 few more ruinous , less 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 snrine from waltzing on a ci-devant Vauxhall plattouna
form , we dare say such articles will be , on more minute inquiry than we are at liberty to make , in some of the many suburban lust-gartens . The ground will be 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 on Tuesday evening with Mr . Costa ' s arrangement of the National Anthem , folio wed by Hay dn ' s " Creation . ; "the ai
principal singers being Madamo Noveiio , Mr , ms Reeves , Madame Sherrington , Signor Bellctti , Mr . Wilbye Cooper , and Mr . Santloy . To enter hero into any lengthened description of tho oratorio or of the perfections of these artists would only tire the reader ; we therefore conflno ourselves to stating that the Programme we gave last weok has been carried outt ^ the extremo dclight * J ^ Lf ° gT noisseUrs , who are no mean judges of choral music , and totho complete satisfaction of the ™ otropoUtan ... ¦ ¦ rt : «„„)« nrncnnt wlm V 1 G With GaCIl
SuiSrb weather attracted crowds of county ftflhion-Ss to the handsome music hall , and , as might be s & sssssffiK S 3 dST 5 « # no ^ means the least agreeable feature of tho festival week . The hundred and thirty-sixth mooting of'the three ohSrs of Gloucester , Worcester , and Hereford , for the benefit of widows and orphans of clorgv in those tfieodiocese ; is advertised to totaplawatdWjty on the 13 th of September and three following day 8 . On the first aay , Tuesday , tho festival will commSnce with fulli ohoral service . On Wednesday wiTbe alveVtno « Elijah V . of Mendelssohn , On Mater b
Thursday , Rossini ' s " Btabat , ana » P ° » t « ££ S Judgment ; " on Friday , Handel ' s « Messiah , " and on the first three evenings grand raiscellanepua concerts , at the Shire Hall . Tho principal vocalist *
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. Wellington has , it appears , been making himseli supremely ridiculous about it . His lachrymose appeal ' to Commissioner Mayne—who so far abetted " bis 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 upshoi of the matter will be , if Tve may * rust 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 untenantableperhaps to-let . "Etapres" we are certainly temptec to add : but without stopping to contemplate a con summation so devoutly to be deprecated ( by hii Grace ) , let us offer the little scheme for remedy o the evil complained of , to which our readers pwi the introduction here , by the ears , of the Indicate ] and its coronetted victim . It seems to us that if tlui worthy scion of the Mount-garrets , whose legithnat wooden has been disturbe
inheritance—the spoon— < by Ms fortuitous birth with a service of plate m hii mouth , could only contemplate the surrender of om tittle to that public who have so largely endowe * him , He might secure the equanimity of the high blooded coursers whose tempers are now spoilt b ] the adjacent cabby ; secure his own neck from thi fate he dreads ; and perhaps " live veryjhappy evei after . " If the gates of Apsley House were removec altogether , and the noble proprietor were content ^ t ( live flush with the street like the rest of the world or the majority of them ; and if the space thui gained were devoted to the service of the public bj giving width to the road , we should hear no more o "the sharp turn into the park , " the " dawdling cab , " my irritable horse , " or . * ' my dear Sir Bichard . As for lynching the poor indicator , we are glad t < find no fresh suggestion on the subject in the lasi published "batch of the new Duke ' s despatches , and so far we congratulate his Grace on his prudeni reserve .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1859, page 983, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2309/page/11/
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