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EXHIBITION OF PICTURES AT THE 

 ATHENAEUM. 



THE approaching Exhibition of Pictures, we may 

 venture to predict, is likely to be the most attractive 

 one we have had for many years, as it will consist chief- 

 ly of recent works of native Painters ; this circum- 

 stance is likely to elicit all their talent, and we are happy 

 to say, of our own knowledge, that some of the works 

 now in hand will reflect great credit on the state of art 

 in our own town and neighbourhood. 



Colonel Hamilton Smith has nearly completed 

 another of his series of Historical Landscapes, the find- 

 ing of Moses. This often repeated subject is treated 

 with that attention to costume, &c. which so eminently 

 distinguishes the drawings of this extraordinary artist, 

 and we congratulate the Colonel on his having carried 

 the other, and as we think the higher qualities of this 

 work further than any of its precursors. The Land- 

 scape and Architecture is not only historically correct, 

 but is moreover disposed of in a way that adds beauty 

 and propriety to the figures, which are on a larger scale 

 then any we recollect from the same pencil. The 

 daughter of Pharoah is sketched with great grace, she 

 leans with dignity on one of the attendants, who stoops 

 by her side for this purpose ; the rest of the group is 

 disposed of in a variety of attitudes, and, with their 

 coloured draperies, well sustain the splendour of the 

 scene by which they are surrounded. The time is 

 morning, when the sun producing lengthened shadows, 

 gives every opportunity of splendour of effect, and we 

 again congratulate the Colonel on the success with 

 which he has availed himself of it. 



G. Wightwick,Esq. is proceeding with his beautiful 

 Architectural designs (which notwithstanding his pro- 

 fessional interruptions, are still progressing ; and we 

 may venture to say that, for truth and power of design, 

 delicacy and brilliancy of colour, they have rarely been 

 surpassed. The drawings which Mr. W. has completed 

 are from sketches made by him while pursuing his archi- 



