... LITERARY AND FINE ART GOSSIP. EVERY reader will be glad to know that Sir Benjamin Hall is going to give £20,000 for a new statue to the Duke of Wellington. Some persons may pretend to sneer at carrying coals to Newcastle and bloaters to Yarmouth. But ...

... e- re tation of Liverpool as a great art contre. ItS15 Bituoe said that be objected to tie term n. need in the paper local art, for art was not loC~ it W ai 5provinciai patriotism to attempt to SOr localise art. Art belonged to the whole ...

... tion of the leading figure, that the mind wandered with sstisfaction’to the accessories: or inanimate objects, were all in Keeping, and all helped to tell and impress. the story. Now, in the picture’of this year, wer miss this, ‘and we cannot evon shift ...

... Art Exurbrrion, 1857.—A deputation from the executive committee of the Art Treasures Exhi bition, 1857, consisting of the Mayor of Manchester, Mr. Thomas Fairbairn (chairman), Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Stern, and Mr. Heron, with Mr. John C. Deane, , the general ...

... PERMANENT GALLERY OF ART. has been said, during the past week, as to the Pr e : gress which has been made in the architectural of Liverpool; but there are other branches of the sis ter arts in which great development is also apparent. We ha f elsewhere ...

... Scharf, jun., has been appointed Art-Secretary to the Committee of the Manchester Exhibition of Art. treasures. Colebrookdale has resolved to establish a School of Design; and considering how much the district depends on the art culture of its inhabitants, ...

... calm of a hot sum- mer's day which pervades the picture is adinir- ably conveyed. People may dispute for ever, and without advantage, on what constitutes high or low art, but a lesson in nature by a clever painter iswhat the very humblest can appreciate and ...

... his or fees being paid by the Science and Art Depart- inment. thbe number of works sent. up to South IS* Kensington, from the schools of art for exasoina- tion this ycar was 214,153 from 182 sehools of art and branch classes. Of these, 1313 -were e, ...

... adopted, ?? ?? e -cienc and Art Department to publiob a 3, oo! t tecnical precesses of mniral painting. XTi -'a1 Geoddes; M.A, sacceeded Piroessor wi, 0 b a paper embracing Economic Argu- ,or tha EncouragRemet of the Fine Arts, *l thbi, in turn, was followed ...

... an art club amongst i; a happy event for the improvement of taste and the progress of the industrial &rt, It forms a centretowards which all informatie may tend, and from which it may again radiate in such directions as able and earnest effort may ibe ...

... solitude ts which is slowly widening round every true artist . But however tbat may be, I maintain that it is the I- bounden duty of artists to keep a watchful eye over g )f public art interests-particalarly when they are a -b administered by amateurs-snad to ...

... PORTRAITS COMBINING ART AND NATURE. WE have much pleasure in drawing the attention of the patrons and admirers of the fine arts to the success which Messrs. Stortz and Cazenave have now carried the art of portrait painting. These artists, who occupy the ...