International studio (25.1905)

lines of the medieval art guilds. The present de-
cay he lays at the door of photography and ivory;
in fact, he holds the popularity of the Cosway
tradition, with its accentuation of grace and tender-
ness, a check to virility and the development of a
later realism.

MR. J. PiERPONT MORGAN,-of New York, has
recently issued a catalogue of his collection of
Chinese porcelains, illustrated with seventy-seven
colour plates. The catalogue was prepared by Mr.
W. M. LaSan, and bears the imprint of Robert
Grier Cooke, of New York.

/—URRENT ART EVENTS.
H A PORTRAIT of General Washington
V- ^ which has never before been engraved
or reproduced, is published by Mr.
Robert M. Lindsay, Philadelphia, in the size of the
original, 13^x16^ inches, in photographic repro-
duction. This portrait was done from life by Rem-
brandt Peale, in September, 1795. The original,
which is in the possession of the artist's grand-
daughter, Mrs. E. B. Jacobs, has never been
out of the family. A number of replicas have
been made, but all were more or less altered or
idealized, including one sold to the Government
in 1832.
Peale was so young and inexperienced when
Washington consented to sit to him for this paint-
ing, that he found himself too agitated to undertake
the preliminary sketch unless his father, who was
also a portrait painter, consented to take a canvas
alongside him. Peale gives the following account
in a lecture delivered in 1837-38, in the principal
cities of the country:
"Washington gave me three sittings. At the first
and second my father's painting and mine advanced
well together; being on my right hand his was a
little less full than mine. In the third sitting, per-
ceiving that he was beginning to repoint the fore-
head and proceed downwards, as was his custom,
I feared he would have too little time to study the
mouth and lower part of the face, and therefore, I
began at the chin and proceeded upwards. The re-
sult of this decision was that there was something in
the upper part of my father's study that I preferred,
and something in the lower portion of mine which
better satisfied me.To profit more fully
by the occasion, my uncle, James Peale, during the
second and third sitting painted on my left hand a
miniature on ivory, and for a time my elder brother
stood behind my uncle to make a profile sketch.
Mrs. Washington happened to enter the room at
that moment, and being amused by the circum-
stance, mentioned it to Gilbert Stuart, who jocu-
larly told her she must take good care of her hus-
band, as he was in danger of being peeled all
round."

MR. JOHN LA FARGE has completed his stained
glass window, designed as a memorial to John
Harvard, founder of Harvard University, for
presentation by the Honorable Joseph H. Choate,
to St. Saviour's Church in London, the church in
which John Harvard was baptized in 1607. Pre-
viously to its being shipped to London, the window
was shown privately in Mr. La Farge's rooms, at
the shop of the Decorative Stained Glass Company,
46 South Washington Square, New York. The
work was worthy of its purpose and of the artist,
and is particularly notable as an American contri-
bution to the riches in stained glass of the churches
of the older country.
THE recently completed relief portrait of the late
Theodore Thomas by George H. Piper has been
put on exhibition m Chicago. The work shows the
face slightly turned from the profile. The "Angel
oflPeace" is represented above the head bearing
palm branches. ....
IN ADDITION to the symbolical pictures already
ordered, the new State house at St. Paul, designed
by Cass Gilbert, will have a series of historical wall
paintings illustrating deeds of Minnesota men
during the war with the Confederacy. The new
paintings are to cost $6,000. The behaviour of the
Second and Eighth Minnesota Regiments in the
battle of Nashville will be celebrated by Howard
Pyle, and the work of the Second Minnesota, at
Missionary Ridge, by Douglas Volk. The Fourth
Minnesota, at Vicksburg, will be the subject
assigned to Frank D. Millet. Rufus F. Zogbaum
will treat the First Minnesota Volunteers at
Gettysburg.
A SERIES of fifteen landscapes, painted on the
upper Hudson, by Kenneth Frazier, were recently
seen at the Century Club. Mr. Frazier, who is
better known as a portrait painter, shows himself
at home in outdoor work.
THE FOLLOWING new members have been
elected to the Society of American Artists: Hugo
Ballin, Henry B. Snell, William Glackens, A. T.
Calder, Luis Mora, Henry S. Hubble, Walter Shir-

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