1806.] 



Monthly RetrefpeP. of the Fine-Arts^ 



549 



were the five Landfcapes after Claude 

 Both, Berghem, &c., by VVoollet, Vi- 

 ■vaies, Lowsy, Middieman, &c,, &c. ; 

 and the liiftoric were after Welt, Ang-e- 

 Jica KaufFman, &c., eiifjraved by Hall, 

 Sharpe, Ravenet, &c,, &c. 



In otrr Re'rofpeft for November laft we 

 noticed at fome le!>gth the rules and or- 

 ders of the BiitiHi Iiillimtion for promot- 

 ing the fine-arts. At a future day we 

 fhall have an opportunity of giving our 

 opinion on the piftures there exhibited, 

 as many of our capital artifts are now pr^"- 

 paring works for that purpofe. The 

 Committee of Direflors have appointed 

 Mr. Valentine Gieen, a well-known and 

 refpefilab'e engraver, whofe produftions 

 we have often noticed v.'ith approbation, 

 houfekeeper to the inlutution. 



7be Mojl Noble ^ugujtus Hsnry Duke of Graf- 

 ton. J. Hofpner/ R. A., pin\t. C. Tur- 

 ner, Jculpt. PubllfhcdbyCnbb, H'Jborn. 



A very good print in mezzotinto, and 

 extremely like the pifluie exhibited at the 

 Royal Academy lali year. 



Arthur Murpty, Efq. From the original Pic- 

 ture in the Pojpffton of Mifs Thrales. Paint- 

 ed by N. .Dunce, R A. Engraved by IV. 

 PTard, Pub'dpcd by Tkomjtn, Newport- 

 f.reet. 



A portrait of our well-known and re- 

 fpeftable veteran of the drama Arthur 

 Murphy, by a pa'n'er very long fince fo 

 delervediy emincrt as Mr. Dance, is a cu- 

 riofity, and it is a very good portviir, and 

 admirably well engraved in mezzotinto. 

 The Thatcher. G. Morland pinxt. IV. Ward 

 fculpt. Publifned by Morland, Dean-jircet, 



&ho. 



This is one of Morland's delightful, 

 unafFefted, genuine piftures. It is fiinple 

 nature, and engraved in mezzotinto, in a 

 yery niperi^r rtyle. 



Gilray has produced fjur whimfical ca- 

 ricatures on a new idea, viz.. Political 

 Skating. 



SCULPTURE. 



On the Thanklgiving-day laft month 

 two new nionumenrs were opened to the 

 puhlie in St. Panl's cathedral. One, in 

 comm'.moration of Captain George Blajj- 

 don Wcltcott, who wa» killed at the battle 

 of the N.le, in his Majefty's fliio tiic Ma- 

 jeliic, wasixtcutcd by the late T. Banks, 

 K.A. It rtprefents Captain Weltrott 

 filling into the arms of Viftciy, utid does 

 hitrh honour to the talerits of the ar^ilt j — 

 but rliere is fomcthing unplvafant in the 

 firft view. Both the figures apj.ear to be 

 lalling } and as lliers are only two figures, 



it gives ati idea of vacaticy, and does 

 not correfpond with the adjoining monu- 

 ments. On the pedelta], in the form of a 

 farcophagus, is a has relief of the Nile, 

 borrowed frorn the well-known antique j 

 and at the ends, in bas-relief, the blowing- 

 up of the L'Orient, &c. 



Wirh refpeft to thefe aliefjorical repre- 

 fentations of rivers, &c., Mr. Bacon has 

 given us (bmewhat funilar for the river 

 Thames, in Lord Chatham's monumentj 

 and whoever ohjefled to it in thefe cr 

 anv other cafes, would be told that the 

 firft modern artifts have introduced nums- 

 roi's precedents that warrant their intro- 

 duclion : that Pouffin, in his piflure of 

 the Difcovery of the Infant Mofes, has 

 given us a fimilar figure, to defit^nate the 

 Nile ; and that Raphael, in his painting 

 of the PafTage through Jordan, has pre- 

 ferred us with the river in the form of an 

 old man dividing the waters, &c., &c. — 

 Notwithllanding all this, and the iilea of 

 deep erudition which may be annexed to 

 it, thefe are clumfy and threadbare expe- 

 dients ; and when the ancient painters re- 

 forted to allegory, they ufually managed 

 it better, and, tiiough-treadingon dange- 

 rous ground, exhibited a variety that riif- 

 played their attainments, and proved that 

 they had the power of inventing imagery 

 appropriate to their own delineations. 



Nealcas, to (hfw that tlie I'cene of a r.a- 

 vai battle which he painted was on tlie 

 Nile, placed on the Iboie an afs drinking, 

 and a crocodile lying in wait for him. 



The other monument i» in memory of 

 Captains Riou ard Mofs, who lott their 

 lives at Copenhagen. The fculptor of 

 this is J. Rofli, R. A. The defign is new 

 and elegant. A male and female angel 

 are repreiented feated on a pedeftil, and 

 each of them fufperds a meilaliion, on 

 which is a porirai; ot one of ilie Captains. 

 The whole is furmounted by a farcopha- 

 gus. We are forry to fee, that out of 

 five large monuments recently ereifled, 

 four of them aic at prefent without ia- 

 fcriptioiis. 



ROYAL ACAIIEMY. 



The late prefi.ient, Mr. Weft, in a 

 very manly and wtU-wiitten Letter, in 

 which he dates tliat he is the only fiirviv.)r 

 of the four aitills who in tht yesr 176]^ 

 prefenicd to His Majclly tt:c plan of the 

 Royal Academy, ot which he has bttri 

 fourteen years piefidtnt, has refi^^ned. — 

 Some of the circumHances whicii have oc. 

 cafinned this, we miy perhaps notice when 

 we have room. To cnurnerate thuni all, 

 would pcrhapt iiu( be pulCble. SufHcr n 



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