Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Rise and Pall of Landseers. [ARTICLE]

Rise and Pall of Landseers.

A unique series of thirty-three examples came up for sale with the collection of the late Lord Cheylesmore, iu May, 1-9”, and affords an easy medium of comparison. The best pictures appear to increase in the same ratio as the less excellent examp es decline. “The Monarch of the Glen,” so well known through T. Landseer’s very successful engraving, is a masterpiece, and is never likely to sustain any very pronounced deprecia; ion in value. In the late Lord r ondesborough s sale il fetched ('.LOO guineas, whi h amount was increased by .00 guineac in 1592. On the other hand, the “Taming of the Shrew,” which realized 1,43 J guineas, now dropped to 1,150 guineas not a ceriouß drop, perhaps, considering the number of pictures by the same master sold at the same time. A much more serious fall, however, was sustained by “Lady Godivas Prayer,” which in 1874 was appraised at 3,200 guineas, and wa< now sold for 900 guineas. "The Highland Cabin," which, a, the disper al of the Duche.-s of Bedford’s collection in 1853, went for 150 guineas, now sold for 450 guineas: “The Sentinel,” which sold in lbti4 for 240 guineas, now realized 180 guineas, ana “All that Remains of the Glory of William Smith,” which, twenty years ago, went for 320 guineas, was valued in 1892 at 290 guineas. The ma’ority of the other Landseeis in collection were purchased from the art st. As further illustrations of ihe rise and fall re-pectively in I andseers. we may mention “Taking a Buck,” which in the Manley Hall sale, 1888, realized ), 9)0 guineas, and dropped in P 92 to 620 guineas, and “Braemar,” which in 1868 sold for 4,000 guineas, and had advanced at the Bole kom ale in 188 S to £5,107. The celebrated work “Chevy,” for which iandseer is said to hate received £5.000, realized in the Hemming sale in April last, 3,760 guineas. —Nineteenth Century. ✓ The cabmen of Paris are forbidden to smoke pipes while driving a fate.