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Mr. Hat/don't Great Picture. 



[March 1, 



Mr. Haydon's Picfui-es. The new 

 picture of Christ's Agony in the Garden, 

 painted foi Geo. Phillips, Esq. with 

 other pictures, will be exhibited in St. 

 James's-street, and open to the public 

 on the 1st of March. The picture of 

 Christ's entry into Jerusalem, has \>eea 

 exhibited in Edinburgh with the 

 greatest success, and will be suc- 

 cessively exhibited at Glasgow, Liver- 



pool, Birmingham, and Dublin. Aljove 

 ten thousaiid copies of the paniplilet 

 catalogue have been already sold. To 

 give our readers who have not yet seen 

 this fine picture, an idea of its compo- 

 sition, weinseit the following woodcut 

 from a pen and ink sketch by the pain- 

 ter, belonging to Mr. Elmes, the archi- 

 tect. 



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Birmingham Instilntion for en- 

 couraging the Fine Arts. At a meeting 

 held at this opulent and respectable 

 town a few days ago, the sum of £2000 

 was instantly raised, and a subscription 

 opened, for this laudable purpose. Sir 

 R. Lawley presented them with a 

 fine set of casts from antique statues. 

 Mr. Elmes has been invited down to 

 deliver a course of lectures on archi- 

 tecture, which will commence on the 

 9th of March. 



Surrey Institution. Mr. Elmes's 

 lectures on architecture in our next. 



Sir Humphry Davy is sitting to 

 Mr. Lonsdale for a half length portrait, 

 Premiums for the current 

 year. The subjects settled by the 

 President and council for the present 

 year to the successful students in the 

 several schools of art are in the class of 

 painting, the gold medal and the dis- 

 courses of the Presidents Reynolds and 

 West, for the best historical picture 

 from the pai-able of the Prodigal Son. 



In sculpture the gold medal and the dis- 

 courses of the same presidents for the 

 best groiipe of Harmon and Antigone, 

 from tlie Antigone of Sophocles. In 

 architecture a gold medal and the 

 above discourses, for the best plan, ele- 

 vation, section and perspective view of 

 a design for a theatre. 



A number of silver medals will be 

 given for the best drawings and models 

 of figures, and in architecture for the 

 most accurate figured drawing of the 

 front of the church of St. Martin's iu 

 the Fields, from actual measurement. 



The first model in each of the above 

 classes is to be accompanied with a 

 copy of the lectures of Barry, Opie, 

 and Fusel i. 



Three silver medals will be given to 

 the students in the Antique Acarlemy 

 for the best models of a statue or groupe 

 to be selected by the keeper. Tlie first 

 medal will be accompanied by the lec- 

 tures of the Professors Fuseli and Opie. 

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