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drawings) and) designs; ‘55 pieces of 
sculpture, of which 27 are busts, and 
the rest miscellaneous, 
There are this ycar 510 exhibitors, 
41 of whom are members of the aca- 
demy; the latter furnishing 156) pieces 
out of 861, the whole number exhibited, 
The exhibition is one of the best we 
remember, and the Prince Regent was 
guilty of no flattery: in saying, that, he 
saw portraits that Titian or Vandyke, 
and landscapes that Claude anight envy. 
The compliment was the greater from 
its truth, and the highly cultivated’ taste 
of his Royal Highness, 
In history, this year, that able and 
indefatigable veteran Mr. West, as usual, 
takes the lead, and is supported by a 
small band of promising youthfal ad- 
venturers, who, under his excelient gui- 
dance, will assuredly, with perseverance, 
attain.a splendid rank in art. 
Mr. Fuseli is very great, but sober his- 
tory is not the class in which to rank 
him, he is bimself alone, and his poet 
cal and metaphysical subjects, are par- 
ticularly grand, and possess an eleva- 
tion of thought, and airiness of fancy 
peculiarly his own. Mr. Fuseli is both 
an artist and a philosopher, and illus- 
trates with his peneil the powerful pre- 
cepts of his pen. This is as it should 
be, . professors should write, and not 
leave themselves to be illustrated by 
dilletanti. Mr. Prince Hoare, in his 
periodical paper called the Artist, has 
given artists an opportunity of essaying 
their powers with the pen, and they give 
forcible proofs of what Fielding serio- 
comically endeavours to prove, that a 
man does not write the worse. on a 
subject for understanding a little about 
it. Eustachio Zanotti, in bis “ Ragiona- 
menti sopra diverse question: appar- 
tementi alla Prospettiva,” says, lament- 
ingly, “ La maggior parte det libri, che 
ora escono al publico, non sono scritti 
da professori, ma da ‘quelli, che chia- 
mansi dillettanti, lo studio dei quali non’ 
altrepassa Je astratte speculazioni della 
teorica: ma nei passati, secoli erano 
eglino stessi gli artisti, e scrittori, e filo-, 
svi? Manca agli uni Ja prattica, e quelle 
cognizioni, che per essa si aquistano. » 
r. Dawe, in bis demoniac, infant 
Hercules, and portraits of Mrs. Hope’ 
and children, evinces a versatility of 
powers, that, with his pictures in the 
receding exhibitions, and those at Pall 
fall, stamp him an.artist of first rate 
talent, Messrs, Artaud, Efty, Hilton, 
Peale 
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Joseph, Woodforde, Halls, Sass, Sin« 
gleton, and Trumbull, are the other sup- 
porters of the historical and poetic pencil. 
Turner’s landscapes, both drawings 
and paintings, are above all praise; his 
Mercury and Hersé, is a master-piece, 
Callcott in the same class is excellent, 
but a. more careful pencil would im- 
prove his style. 
In portraits, Lawrence places all com- 
petitors at humble distance; his portraits 
of the president and the Hon. Charles 
Stewart, in his Hussar dress, are wonders 
of art. ‘After ‘him -are Sir William 
Beechey, Messrs. Phillips, Norticute, 
Owen, Lonsdale, Stewardson, Pocock, 
Jackson, and Raeburn. 
Messrs. Bird, Wilkie, Collins, jun. 
and Chalon, shine in domestic humour ; 
and Edridge, Foster, Robertson, and 
Engleheart, in miniature portraits. ; 
Sharpe has some. high-finished whole- 
length cabinet portraits, of considerable 
taste and beauty. ' 
Bone, Hone, and Murphy, have some 
excellent enamels. 
Inthe architectural department, Messrs, 
Lochner, Joseph Woods, jun. Thomas, 
and Ware, exhibit some rival designs 
for Bethlem hospital: the first of which 
obtained the first premium, ‘ 
Mr. Soane exhibits some repetitions 
of the. Bank, slovenly drawn; and his 
designs for the new, House of Lords, 
which is tasteful and elegant, also a 
mausoleum for his friend Sir F. Bour- 
geois. 
Mr. Elmes exhibits some designs iw 
a good taste, executing in different parts 
of England, and some perspective views 
of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which appear 
to be his faveurite subjects; Mr. 
Gandy has some exquisite drawings. Mr. 
Kinnaird a good design for a triumphal 
arch; Mr. Grifiths, a mansion to be 
erected at Memel, in Prussia; Mr. 
Sanders, the new Royal Military Col- 
lege, near Blackwater; and Messrs. 
Beazley, jun. Pocock, J. Wyatt, Por 
den, and Seward, some good designs. 
Mr. Robinson’s design for the Museum 
in Piccadilly, for Mr. Bullock, is in a. 
clumsy, heavy, style, not suitable for 
Egyptian architecture 
is not calculated either for the materials 
or climate of England. 
Before concluding for this month, it 
is necessary to make a few observations 
on the manifest partiality shewn by the 
Hanging Committee this year. Accord-’ 
ing tothe annual proposals which are. 
publicly 
