Munsey's Magazine, July 1894

Munsey's Magazine, July 1894 This issue features an "Artists and Their Work" section covering contemporary art markets and notable painters. The opening essay discusses financial depression's impact on commercial art branches, noting the depressed prices of Old Masters at London auctions (a Titian selling for five hundred dollars, a Correggio for fifty-six). The section surveys English royal patronage of the arts, particularly Princess Louise's sculpture training under Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, whose biography appears with portrait. Essays cover the rise of artistic poster design in Paris via Jules Chéret and others; decorative schemes for commercial spaces, including Dielitz's mythological paintings for the North German Lloyd steamer *Ems*; and biographical profiles of prominent Academic painters Edward Poynter and Frank Dicksee. American painter William Magrath's Irish peasant subjects receive discussion. Coverage of the Paris Salons emphasizes French art's lag behind foreign competitors, with attention to Léon Bonnat's realist figure painting and portraiture. A concluding article by Henri Rochefort investigates the disputed history of the Venus de Milo's missing arms.