The gallery and salesrooms established at 20 East Seventeenth-street by the late Edward Greey will be closed on the 1st of May. His widow has conducted the sale of Japanese and Chinese works of art since his death, but will no longer continue the business. The triple bronze fountain, formed of three great vases of the lotus-leaf pattern, which Mr. Greey described in his monograph called "A Brief History of Japanese Bronze," may still be seen; also the chime of eight Japanese bells, but the Buddah has been acquired by the Smithsonian and a thousand other objects have disappeared. One of the colossal bronze incense burners remains. The collection of sword guards, inros, carved ivory figures, netshukes, and ceramics are still of considerable size, and retain many very beautiful specimens. Anderson's rare and beautiful work, in four volumes, on the pictorial arts of Japan, and the charming books for adults and children written by Mr. Greey on Japan and the Japanese, will be sold with the art objects. Of the famous Brinckley collection of porcelains and potteries only a few pieces have been overlooked by connoisseurs.
    The new National Portrait Gallery will stand back of the National Gallery on Trafalgar square, London, and the architect will be Ewan Christian. He has been cruising about the Continent studying edifices in use as galleries for works of art. Hemming's Row, behind the National Gallery, will have to be closed, if the present designs are accepted. There will be forty feet between the backs of the new gallery and the old, the front of the former being on the side street which enters Trafalgar square. But on the east side the two buildings will meet without being connected, and there it is proposed that the pseudo-Greek motives of the fa�ade of the old structure shall be continued round the corner along the east side till the new structure is met. The architect of the old building was Wilkins. He was granted �70,000 and the Corinthian columns from Carlton House wherewith to decorate the edifice. The new structure will consist of a tower abutting on the old, with a stone building of three stories somewhat Florentine in style. The entrance will face Chandos-street.
    French and English artists who contributed works to be shown at Buenos Ayres in 1887 have at length discovered that the Argentine official who solicited and accompanied them to Buenos Ayres was a rascal. If he ever entered them at the exhibition he has never rendered an account. They were sold and he has pocketed the proceeds. The French artists have met, elected M. Francais President, and taken measures to bring him to justice. It was to block just such rascalities as this that New-York artists formed the Art Guild, an organization which exacts a bond from such persons as come hither from other parts of the Union suggesting the dispatch of pictures to distant places for exhibition.
    Four marines by the late Arthur Quartley sold at the recent auction in New-York, have been hung in the Layton Art Gallery of Milwaukee. They are "Port of New-York; Queen's Birthday," "Plymouth Fishing Boats," "Hackensack, N. J.," and "Loos, Cornwall, England." Winslow Homer's painting of English fisher women called "Hark, the Lark!" shown recently at the Union League Club, has been placed in the Layton Gallery.
    Concerning the exhibition held in Paris by the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, a French journal says: "It is amusing to study out who is the professor, or this or that 'woman painter.' Rarely does one make a mistake. Most of the pictures bear very clearly the stamp of a faithful imitation, or very visibly the marks of retouches and corrections. They are the sendings of pupils, nothing more."
    The place for the Lafayette Monument at Washington, designed by Falgui�re and Merci� of Paris, has been selected by Secretary Proctor, Senator Evarts, and Mr. Clarke, the architect. It will stand on the edge of Lafayette-square, directly opposite the White House.
    The library of Columbia College is to have a stained-glass window, designed and made in Munich, to commemorate Miss Mary Hankey, who was the first woman to receive a diploma from that university. Miss Hankey was graduated in 1887 and died in 1888.
    The sum to be contributed to the fund for a statue to Barye by the Barye Monument Association of the United States has reached $8,400, and to still growing. When sold, the remnant of the �dition de luxe "Life of Barye" will add another $700 to America's contribution.
    Mr. William Schaus announces that his collection of paintings, which includes the famous Rousseau he has had so long, can be seen at his own residence on sending a request for cards of admission.
    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts bought from its recent exhibition with the temple fund a painting by W. T. Richards called "The Rainbow," the catalogue price of which was $2,500.
    The etchings shown during the present month at Wunderlich's Gallery are those by James McNeil Whistler, belonging to the collection of his brother-in-law, the English etcher, Haden.
    On March 13 the collection of modern paintings belonging to Dr. G. H. Wynkoop will be sold at the Fifth-Avenue Galleries by Messrs Ortgies & Co.
    At Reichard's Gallery Messrs. E. A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons will exhibit a collection of drawings 1n black and white from March 8 to 21.
    The Harlem Club has opened its first exhibition of paintings by American artists with sixty-two pieces.
    Paintings by the late George L. Brown will be sold at auction in Boston on the 12th.
    The statue of the late Mr. Grady of Atlanta will be modeled by Alexander Doyle.

Source:

Unknown, "Art Notes," The New York Times, New York, Monday, 10 March 1890, p. 4.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about Dr. Gerardus Hillis Wynkoop on pages 183-184:

    1152. Gerardus Hillis Wynkoop, M.D., (Rev. Stephen R. 677, David 374, Gerardus 153, Gerrit 45, Gerret 5, Cornelius 1,) born June 4, 1843, in Wilmington, Del.: married, May 30, 1866, in Huntington, L. I., Anne Eliza Woodbury, born November 22, 1848, died June 17, 1896, in New York City, of appendicitis, daughter of Gen'l Daniel Phineas and Catharine Rachel (Childs) Woodbury. The General was of the U. S. Engineers.
    Gerardus prosecuted studies in Yale College, until his junior year: was student with Dr. Willard Parker, and was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., in 1866: physician of New York Dispensary, in 1866: professor of physiology, in the Woman's Medical College, in 1868: attending physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, in 1873: trustee of public schools, in 1878: and attending physician at St. Luke's Hospital, in the same year, also trustee of the Northern Dispensary: professor of surgery in the Woman's Medical College: consulting surgeon of the Northern Dispensary, in 1882: first president of the Northern Dispensary, in 1895.
    Children of Gerardus H. and Anne E. Wynkoop:
1578. Gerardus Mills: b. May 18, 1867: m., May 18, 1901, in Somerville, N. J., Helen H. Potts, daughter of George H.
1579. Kate Childs: b. July 17, 1868: m., Nov. 25, 1889, Harold Stanley Forward, of Liverpool, Eng.
1580. Daniel Woodbury, M.D.: b. July 11, 1873: attended Yale University, 1891-92: Columbia University Medical College, 1892-96: m., in the city of New York, Nov. 14, 1903, Carlie M. Schenck, daughter of Allen Schenck, deceased.
1581. Elizabeth Hillis: b. Mch. 11, 1878: m. Dec. 27, 1900, in Manhattan, N. Y. City, Stuyvesant Fish Morris.

    Chris