FINE ARTS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5406, 25 July 1878, Page 2

FINE ARTS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

The exhibits at the Working Hen’s Club have received several valuable additions during the last few days, the chief contributor being Major' Heaphy, Y. 0., who has sent several pictures of merit. Chief among them, and in' the first rank of exhibits in the picture gallery, is a large oil painting by T. Heaphy, styled “Mary, Queen of Scots, and Christopher A orton at Bolton Castle.” The following extract from Fronde’s history of England describes the Scene which the artist has depicted “ One day when the Queen of Scots, in winter (1568-9), had been sitting at the window-side knitting of a work,' and after the board was covered, she rose and wont to the fireside, and making haste to have the work finished, would not lay it away, but worked of it thejdme she was warming herself. She looked for one of her servants, which indeed were all gone to fetch up her meat, and seeing none of her own folk there, called m 9 to hold her wqrk, who was looking at my Lord Scrope and Sir Francis Knollys playing of chess. I went, thinking I had deserved no blame, and that ifc should not have become me to have refused to do it, my Lady Scrope standing there, and many gentlemen in tho chamber. . . Two years • later the poor youth was under tho knife of the executioner at Tyburn.” The subject has been cleverly treated, and the artist has succeeded in producing an oxceedingingly good representation of his ideal. Major Heaphy has contributed some of his own water-color sketches of New Zealand

scenery, several unusually well-executed chromos, and large photos—two views of Venice being very interesting, A photograph of a carving in ivory representing the crucifixion tells what ■ a marvel - f the original must have been, 'for the figures look most natural, the expression, .‘on the faces being clearly shown... Dr. Diver . has forwarded several specimens of embroidery on silk by Chinese, the effect being very like a painting.' Master Beere exhibits a well designed weath of flowers all made of cloth, and as 'many are exceedingly small, they must have been made with great nicety. Several portions of the picture gallery have been re-arranged, and the general appearance of this room is now l much better thau it was at first, as some large specimens of wool work have been removed. Another visit by those who have already been through the rooms would be well pah}, as many attractive exhibits have been lately sent in.