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taste not nearly so beautiful as his small water-colour gems of sun- 

 sets and twilights. 



98. Frigate enlerifig Portsmouth Harbour. — C H. Seqforth. The 

 frigate is entering the harbour, she is going along gallantly, and 

 her boat rides over the waves in her wake so buoyantly, that you 

 may almost think you hear them ripple against her side. The sea 

 is worthy of Stanfield ; and the coast accurately drawn and effec- 

 tively painted. 



101. Landscape. — Distant View of Warwick — Cattle in the fme- 

 groujid. — T. Baker. A clear, sunset- tinged, twilight sky above, — 

 noble trees lifting their stately heads high into the calm air, and a 

 most English foreground of meadow land, occupied by beautiful 

 cows, worthy of Cuyp. The opening in the wood shews the town 

 of Warwick, with its church and castle towers standing out against 

 the golden sky behind, and beautifully closing this very lovely pic- 

 ture. 



1 10. Shall I ? — H. Wyatt. Fair lady, we answer yes : for your 

 query evidently concerns the proposal-like letter in your hand ; and 

 yore grief would a refusal bring to one who has dared to love such 

 beauty. This is another of Mr Wyatt's own pictures, in his own 

 graceful and excelling elegance of design and execution. 



112. Rock?/ Coast, with Smugglers. — T. Creswick. A scene, 

 which, for its equal beauty, though extreme contrast, we would 

 like to place side by side with Henry Lines's calm, and sunshiny, 

 and happy " Malvern." Here, the rough and tempestuous sea 

 dashes against the high steep rocks, fringing their hoary sides with 

 angry foam ; and the brawling torrent, rushing from the mountain- 

 top, plunges headlong down the deep and wooded ravine, as if in 

 mocking rivalry of its ocean neighbour. The stormy sky and skele- 

 ton-like trees, bending in the blast, give a strange and wild reality 

 to the scene ; which is indeed a fit haunt for the desperate and dar- 

 ing beings with whom the painter has peopled it. 



116. Interior with Monks — 111. Interior ivith Nuns. — E. Pritch- 

 ett. Two small pictures, wherein the architecture of the buildings 

 is very finely painted. 



123. Curiosity. — Bradley. A very fine picture of a girl, very 

 much in the manner of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



130. Battle Abbey, distant view. — T. Creswick. Looking from a 

 high hill, we command a most extensive and beautiful prospect over 

 a richly-wooded and finely undulating country, with Battle Abbey 

 to the right ; its massive walls and towers rising from the embosom- 

 ing wood, and painted with the lightness and delicacy of touch so 

 peculiarly beautiful in Mr. Creswick's distant views. There is a 

 silvery airiness in his landscapes, which we rarely find in those of 

 any other painter. 



131. Cymon and Iphigenia. — G. Patten. Often has this subject 

 been attempted, but now, for the first time, is it worthily achieved. 

 Painted on a grand historical scale, with the figures life-size, and 

 the execution of every part most admirable. Ipliigenia, just awak- 



