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with any medium between the two extremes of the " Dames of Ephesus," and 

 those, " like Niobe, all tears." Quite joyful, therefore, were we to find that in 

 this widow there was not one single melodramatic " Oh ! Ah !" but in its lieu, 

 a fine vein of sadness current through her face, a subdued but trembling gaze, 

 as though she were tracing in the empty air real and substantial forms, and 

 a melancholy repose of attitude in which the reclining of the body seems to in- 

 dicate the sinking of the soul. To those who love quiet, honest emotions, re- 

 leased from all the bustle of straining after effect, we recommend this picture. 



57. Portrait of Mrs. Davenport, in the character of the Nurse, in Romeo and 

 Juliet. JAMES HOLMES. A pleasant picture, and a pleasant likeness : we are 

 obliged to Mr. Holmes for thinking it worth his while to paint a stage -departed 

 favourite, when half the painting tribe is crying " Fanny to the easel, ho !" as 

 though the world had never seen the sun, until this very 1st of April. 



115. The Baptism. G. HARVEY, S. A. This is a picture with great preten- 

 sion's, some cleverness, and the deuce of all figures in it. When we first caught 

 a glimpse of it, we took it for a parody on Michael Angelo's " Day of Judgment," 

 till we scanned the face of the minister, full of what the English call acerbity, 

 and the Scotch, devotion, and which certainly ran no risk of being mistaken 

 for the " head and front" of Buonaroti's daring design. 



151. Caution. JAMES INSKIPP. This is a sweet little bit of unaffected nature ; 

 and when we say that it is coloured in the artist's best manner, we do not know 

 whether we do not go near to say coloured in the best manner of the best co- 

 lourist of the age. There is certainly an astonishing richness and freshness in 

 the tone of this painter's pictures, and withal a delightful vein of ease and 

 nature. 



There are other pictures which we could have wished to notice ; but we 

 lament to say that our limits and our time will not allow us to proceed any 

 further with those we had marked for observation. 



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