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merit of being a free, well-executed print, 
and is a perfect fac-simile of its original. 
Besides being one of the best executed 
portraits, it is also one of the best like- 
nesses of the worthy baronet in existence; 
and is commemorative, ina very striking 
decree, of his late political sufferings, and 
combines an historical iact with pour- 
.traitive truth, 
Portrait of Fohn Horne Tooke, esq. painted by 
F R. Smith, andengraved ky William Ward, 
engraver to his Reyal Highness the Duke of 
York. Published by F. R. Smith, 33, New- 
man-street. 
This venerable scholar and_ highly 
gifted man, who justly ranks as one of 
the most learned etymologists in Europe, 
and of the best writers in England ; 
-whose whole life is so closely interwoven 
with English history, and whose name, 
when the jaundiced eye of prejudice 
shall be purged “ with euphrasy and 
visual rue,” will go down to posterity 
among the most eminent British worthies; 
is represented in the interesting, though 
‘affli¢ting, situation, in which age and in- 
firmities has feft the outer frame of the 
able author of the “ Diversions of Purley.” 
He is lying recumbent on his couch, on 
which he sees and delights his friends 
with the power of his genius, and the 
-brilliancy of his intellect; folios of his 
Manuscripts and favourite authors are 
-placed within his reach, and he is in the 
convenient loose costume and cap, which 
he regularly wears. Of this, as well as the 
Jast article, too much praise cannot be 
given, whether we consider it as a por- 
trait of the man, or as a work of art; the 
painter and engraver having gone as far 
as the nature of their art would permit 
them. 
Wo. IV. of the Fine Arts of the English Sobool, 
| Edited by Fobn Britton, F.S.A. contains 
1. A portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
from a picture by himself, in the council- 
room of the Royal Academy; engraved 
by William Bond: also a Biographical 
Memoir of that eminent Artist, by James 
_Northcote, esq. R.A. 
2. Sculpture.—View of a Monument, 
“to the memory of Mrs. Howard, de- 
signed, and executed in Marble, by Jo- 
seph Nollekens, esq. R.A. engraved by 
ames Godby, with a descriptive Essay, 
ay R. Hunt, esq. 
8. An Engraving, by William Bond, 
from a painting, representing the “ Sixth 
Angel loosing the four Angels from the 
River Euphrates:” (vide Revelations, 
phap. ix. ver, 14.) by Henry Howard, 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
567 
esq. R.A. with a descriptive Essay, by 
R. Hunt, esq. 
4, A Landscape, called Pope’s Villa, 
by J. M. W. Turner, esq. R.A. and 
P.P. in the Gallery of Sir John F. Lei- 
cester, bart. Engraved by John Pye, 
and Charles Heath: with a descriptive 
Essay. 
The concluding Letter-Press, descrip- 
tive of St. Paul’s Cathedral Church, by 
Edmund Aikin, esq. architect, 
INTELLIGENCE. 
The British Institution have this year, 
in consequence of the equality of merit 
in the three best prize pictures, deter- 
mined, and divided, their proposed pre- 
mium of 200, 100, and 50, guineas to the 
best, second, and third, best, into three 
equal shares, and awarded them te 
Messrs. Dawe, Hilton, and Joseph. 
Mr. Dawe’s picture is a Negro over- 
powering a Buffalo; Mr. Hilton’s, the 
Entombing of Christ; and Mr. Joseph’s 
Priam mourning over the dead body of 
Hector. All of which have been re- 
viewed before in this retrospect. 
Mr. Lonsdale has just finished an ex- 
cellent portrait of (seneral Congreve, of 
the Royal Artillery, in his uniform of 
colonel of that celebrated corps, which, at 
the desire of his Royal Highness the 
Prince Regent, has been placed in one 
of the principal apartments at Carlton 
House, and was there fixed a few days 
before the late splendid féte, and forms 
a companion to Lord Hutchinson, by 
Phillips, in a series of a choice few of 
the Prince’s most esteemed friends ; 
among which are Lord Moira, by Sir 
Joshua Reynolds; Lord Erskine, by 
Hoppner, &c. The Prince has expressed 
his approbation of the picture, and pro- 
nounced it worthy of its honourable 
situation, which, from one of his Royal 
Highness’s acknowledged taste, is great 
and well merited praise. 
On the 4th ult. the Royal Academy 
held their annual celebration of their 
royal founder’s birth-day, at the Crown 
and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, which 
was numerously attended by the most 
eminent artists, both in and out of the 
establishment, amateurs, and patrous 
of art. The chair was filled by the re- 
spectable and worthy president, and the 
evening was spent with pleasant ra- 
tionality. 
Ov Monday the 24th ult. the different 
schools in the Royal Academy opened to 
the students for the season, and on the 
the following Monday the library also, 
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