SALES OF PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 545, 28 June 1909, Page 5

SALES OF PICTURES.

landscape iPAmms!v/''(By;|.Tele'Brapb,_pre3s ; / v /' London, ..Jfuno/25.:/; ', Turner's -of -tie 'burning '-> of /the' .UduseV.yof/parliament"' has teen/'sold''for, 13,175': guineas ■,and Constable's/■ pietpxe -of Arundel.^ 3 v.:;/" CONSTfIBU AND TURNE {{, ::■& •..-; Johni> Constable 'died/ suddenly: : on' April lV : 1837,/ leaving, his-Arundel'Castle and Mill' wet oil /his easel *v Contemporary, with' J. If; IVY .Turnor./.both.'/being.-..groat-English; landscape painters,/ Constable did .not win in /England |tho:earlj- ; reooghitioii:that Turner-did. ?Conletablo,"' writcar'orie authority,'.''obtained littla 'recoguition;.in;lii9'own country during his lifetime,:,but' was.'highly : appreciated in Prance, wher? his: work.; produced;' a ' notable effect." Writes' another: 'His merits wore 'recognised in France) but his/studio (In England) was full of ; unsold ;pictures : at. his, death','and it'is certain'that he/could.not fiavo earned a livelihood Hl■'!?"' : «rt,"''toout abandoning his theories; Since, his/death,, however,/;■his /pictures' have greatly increased, in value j, and'.ihis. influence on contemporary French aiid,English landscape ;s;recognised as both' grcat.-and g00d.'?..-: To Constable :, is!'::attribut,3d.:the-.saying:'/'ldeal art,,in-landscape/, is. "all nonsense" ; and: this sentence may.be said to sum up tho whole of his theory /and /practice:of z'pafntfng. To him tho-pictures ,of Tumor—one of Mr. Buskin's seven;supremo'colourlstsiof-tho worW-were merely "dreams.'-'.'./ Dreams : that' onablcd Turner, .to ramassi about-..£140,000, which ho bequeathed.as n charity to English artists.-