Show ART AND MUSIC Thorney crofts statue of queen victoria will be set up in the coyal exchange on the queens birthday new opera Vesti IIa will include a gladiatorial scene in a roman amphitheater franz von lenbach who has just finished another portrait of the pope says that his holiness is greatly interested in prince bismarck he could not hear enough about the ex chan bellor from alie painter and ended by ordering a portrait of him in germany a city of people which has not heard lohengrin is a curiosity but worms had that distine lion until recently it is rather curious for as the city of legend worms ia more closely associated with the wagner operas than any other except it is an interesting fact that the new president of the royal academy in common with others of his colleagues has in the course of his career been a sign painter sir john in the early days long before he met the tide which carried him on to fortune painted a st george and the dragon for the inn at iiames in kent |