th in detail,
and force and harmony of color.

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Mr. ELLIOTT, probably the best portrait painter now living, will soon
visit Marshfield, where Mr. Webster has promised to sit to him, for a
friend of his in this city.

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Two statues by the lamented SCHWANTHALER have just been set up in the
royal library at Munich. The first represents Albert V., Duke of
Bavaria, the founder of the library, and a great patron of science. Of
course, he is presented in middle-age costume; his head is bare, his
face reflective, and his right hand supports his chin,--an image of
repose, after a work is accomplished. The other statue is of King Louis
(of Lola Montes memory), in royal robes, the left hand resting on his
sword, and his right holding the plan of the edifice containing the
library, which was built by him. His whole expression is the opposite to
that of the Duke, not repose, but restless activity in search of new
objects. A critic says that these statues do not stand well on their
feet, and that the knees are bent as if one leg was lame, a fault, he
says, not peculiar to Schwanthaler.

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We last month spoke of the New Museum at Berlin, one of the finest
edifices of modern times. It may be interesting to our readers to know
that the total expense of the building and interior decoration was in
round numbers $1,100,000. Of this sum the execution of the ornamental
work and works of art in the interior, including the frescoes of
Kaulbach and others, with the arrangement of objects of art and
furniture necessary for their display, cost upwards of $220,000.

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The Exhibition of the Munich Art-Union took place in the beginning of
March. Among the pictures, attention was particularly drawn to a series
of sketches from Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor, by Loefller. Baade
exhibited a Norwegian picture, representing an effect of moonlight:
Peter Hess two small humorous pieces from military life, which were
greatly admired, as was especially a series of aquarelles representing
scenes in Switzerland and Italy, by Suter, a Swiss artist.

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KAULBACH only works at Berlin on his frescoes in the New Museum during
the pleasant season. The second picture, the Destruction of Jerusalem,
was nearly finished last fall when the cold came on. He left