Reports on the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876.

Date:
1877-1878
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Credit: Reports on the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was informed by General Goshorn that ' further recommendations for awards in painting would be considered.' Whereupon a committee of three- was appointed—not one of which had served on the regular painting committee—to make out a new list of awards in painting. Two of this committee were from the 'United States, one from the Netherlands, and two of them did not report presence until the very last meeting of the group. The only other two members of the regular painting committee present at the meeting refused to serve in this extraordinary scheme, and protested formally against it. In the case of the German judge this action was more significant, as he was one of the minority who had in his committee favoured giving more awards. The committee appointed at the above-named meeting reported to the Commission some 128 names in addition to the 85 which had been regularly acted upon. The Commission confirmed the entire 128. The following is a list of the awards recommended by the regular painting committee:— France.—Daubigny (fib), George Becker, Harpignies, Schenck, P. C. Comte, Castiglione, Perrault, Carolus, Duran, Yon, Pabst, Damaron, Zuber, Commerre, E. Sain, Luminais, Prion. Germany.—Hiddemann, C. Lasch, Steffeck, Poschinger, A. Achenbach, Wagner, Serbel, Hertzel, Meissner, G. Richter. United States.—F. Hill, Miss A. Lea, Shade, W. M. Hunt, Toby, Rosenthal, Key, Bridgman, Jervis McEntee, Eastman Johnson, James Hart, W. Whittredge, M. F. De Haas. England.—Clarke, Stone, Perugini, Cole, F. Holl, Alma Tadema, Hey- wood Hardy, J. M. Jopling, Fildes, Leighton, Geo. Boughton, T. Faed, Francis Grant, Graham, Colin Hunter. Austria.—Kuntz, L. Parmentier, Probst, Von Anjeli, Hans Makart, Felix Graboski. Netherlands.—Mauve, Van Frigt, Nakken, M. Vos, Bischop, Hermann, F. C. Ten Kate. Spain.—Lorenzo Valles, Carlos de Haas, Agrassot, Vera, Mercade, Antonio Gisbert. Belgium.—De Keyser, Van Luppen. Italy.—Marchesi, Maccari, Camaran, Roberto Fontana. Sweden.—Wahlberg, Von Rosen. Norway.—Gude, Sinding, Grimelund. The following table will show the distribution of awards relative to the different nations by the regular committee, which consisted of experts from all the great nations, and also the same distribution, so far as known to me, by the other committee, who were citizens of only two of these nations :— First Supple- T t , Award. mentary. ±owu' United States 13 28 41 France 17 19 36 England 14 10 24 Belgium 2 13 15 Netherlands 7 24 31 Spain 6 2 8 Germany 10 12 22 Austria 6 7 13 Italy 4 0 4 Sweden , ..... 2 0 2 Russia 4 3 7 Norway 3 0 3 Mexico 0 2 1 Brazil 0 1 1 Cincinnati, October 1876. G- w- N-
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