4 Series of Progressive Lessons, intended to elu- 
cidate the Art of Painting in Water Colours. 
Published by T. Clay, Ludgate bill, 1811. 
This is one of the most useful compen- 
diums of the first elements of water-co- 
Jour painting, that has’ been yet pub- 
lished. It is full, without being prolix, 
and exhibits, in a clear,and easy manner, 
the whole process of 2. water-colour 
drawing, from the outline to its finish, 
To youthful artists, it must be both a 
useful and entertaining instructor. 
INTELLIGENCE. 
The Royal Academy have offered the 
following premiums to their students for 
the current year: 
For the best historical picture in oil 
colours; a gold medal and fifty guineas, 
‘The subject to be Themistocles taking 
Refuge at the Court of Admetus.— Vide 
Cornelius Nepos, Tiucydides, &e. To 
consist of not less than three figures; the 
size of the cloth to be a common half 
length, viz. two feet two inches by three 
feet four: the principal figure to measure 
not more than two feet in height, nor less 
than twenty mches. 
For the best model of a bas-relief; a 
gold medal and fifty guineas. The sub- 
ject to be Hereules rescuing Alcestes 
trom Orcus.—Potter’s Euripides. To con- 
sist of not less than three figures; the 
principal figure to measure not more 
than two feet in height, nor less than 
twenty inches. 
N.B. The candidates are to present their 
models either baked or cast in plaster. 
_ For the best finished desiyn in arehi- 
tecture; a gold medal and fifty guineas. 
The subject to be a Theatre. The whole 
eomprised of one general and regular 
composition; the designs to be as_large 
as an entire sheet of double elephant will 
admit. 
A number of silver medals will be gi- 
yeu for the best models and drawings of 
Academy figures, done in the Royal Aca. 
@emy; and for the best accurate 
figured drawings of the east front of Co- 
vent Garden Theatre. Done from actual 
measurements, carefully finished and 
wasned; to be as large as a whole sheet 
of double elephant will admit, attested 
to be their own drawings by auy one of 
the Academicians, or any other professor 
ot reputation, resident in Londen, : 
The first medal in each of these classes, 
will be accompanied with a copy of Rey- 
nold’s and West’s Discourses; and Bar- 
ry’s Lectures, handsomely bound. and 
inscribed. 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
,’ 
[April ?, 
Three silver medals will also be giver, 
for the best drawings, and three silver 
medals for the best models, of a statue, 
or groupe, iu the Antique Academy, to 
he selected and set out by the keeper 
for that purpose, on ‘the first day of 
October next, for one month. 
The first medal in each of these 
classes, will be accompanied with a copy 
of Fusel’s and Opie’s Lectures, hand 
somely bound and inscribed, 
The pictures, drawings, models, and 
desigus, for all the premiums, to be de- 
livered to the keeper of the Royal Aca- 
demy, upon Friday, the first day of No-= 
vember next. ; 
All the students who are candidates 
for the premiums of the gold medals, are 
to attend upon Friday, the fifteenth day 
of November next, (at ten o’clock in the 
forenoon) at the Royal Academy, in 
order to give a proof of their abilities, by 
making a sketch of a given-subject, in 
the presence of the keeper. 
The time allowed for making these 
sketches, will be five hours, from ten till 
three. 
The candidates for the historical pic- 
ture, to make their sketches in oil 
colours. ' 
All the students who are candidates 
for the premiums given for the Academy 
figures, are to enter their names in the 
keeper’s book, on or before Wednesday, 
the eleventh day of October next, and to 
begin making their models, or drawings, 
on Monday, the fourteenth day of Oc- 
tober next; when the visitor will be de- 
sired to set the model in the same atti- 
tude for six nights successively; and on 
Monday, the 21st of October, the model 
will be placed in another attitude, and 
continue the same during six nights, 
Candidates for the premiums to be given 
for the drawings or models from “the 
antique, must enter their names on or 
before the 1st of October. 
The drawings, or models done in the 
Academy, are to be left with the 
keeper. 
No student who has already gained a 
medal, shall be admitted a candidate a 
second time for the same premium, 
A Mr. Barry, of Bristol, has just 
finished, and will exhibit, two pictures, 
that, in the style of comic humour, are 
equal to Wilkie or Bird. The subjects, 
a Nervous Patient and Dector, and « 
Summer's Afternoon, with all the Effects 
‘of Heat. 
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