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TO OUR READERS. 

 PROGRESS OF THE FINE ARTS. 



IN a former number we noticed the Exhibition of 

 pictures which we may look forward to enjoy in the 

 month of August next, and we have stated that several 

 Artists and Amateurs are already exerting themselves 

 to produce specimens of their art for that occasion. It 

 is our intention to advert occasionally to pictures al- 

 ready painted, or now on the easel, and also to such 

 other productions of the pictorial class as come within 

 our reach. 



At present we can notice a rh;t lining easel picture by 

 Mr. A. B. Johns, representing a part of Mount Edge- 

 cumbe, with a clump of firs and a group of deer, and 

 having the sea in the distance. It is one of the happiest 

 efforts of his pencil. 



Mr. Johns has likewise another scene from the same 

 locality, with a large fir tree, some figures and the sea; 

 to us the choice of this subject is not so attractive an 

 the former, but we believe it to be, nevertheless, a fact 

 that the specimen in question is the seventh of the 

 identical spot which he has painted to order, and as 

 we know the purchasers, we must admit that it has 

 charms with many who have both tact and practiced 

 eyes in connoisseurship. 



On Mr. Colley's easel we have seen a small pictiut 

 of great promise, it represents the marriage of Henry 

 IV. of France. A small portrait of a young lady by 

 the same artist is much praised by competent judges. 



Mr. Ball is engaged on his picture of the Royal visit 

 to the Athenaeum, we hope to report favourably of this 

 work of art in a future number. 



Mr. Harris has finished, and in progress, several 

 portraits and a family group; as also views on the 

 Plym, withBickleigh, Shaugh and Meavy Bridges, &c. 



Mr. Bath also is engaged on two large pictures, 

 both landscapes ; one from the vale of the Tavy, the 

 other from the Neighbourhood of Bickleigh Vale. 



