Show ART AND ARTISTS tins great spanish painter federico madrazo who died recently at madrid avas the son of an artist and was born at rome in the year of the battle of waterloo for the past thirty five years he had been director of the royal gallery at madrid AN exhibition of paintings involving a new idea has just been opened in london it contains only one hundred and twenty pictures selected from the best in the french salons of alic preceding spring showing the london public what france has done during the year AN exhibition of the flower in art will shortly open at petits gallery in paris on the committee in charge are ame mme madelaine lemaire armand sylvestre and dr vittorin Vit morin the botanist the exhibition will contain representations of flowers in needlework textiles porcelain sculpture and painting art institute of chicago has received from harriet the cast she made in 1853 of the clasped hands of robert browning and his wife aliis is the cast of which hawthorne wrote in the marble faun it symbolizes the individuality and union of two high lives the autograph of elizabeth barrett browning rome may 1853 Is on the wrist of one robert browning rome on the wrist of the other miss hosmer refused in england an offer of five thousand dollars for this unique cast |