1821.] 



Registtr of th6 Fine Arts. 



273 



she regales her nose, is on the table. 

 Eveiy part is elaborately and beauti- 

 fully painted, and would form an ex- 

 cellent companion to his Old Man 

 drinkinjj; tea of last year. 



125. T/te Smuggler, W. Kidd. Al- 

 though the chief incident in this piece 

 of low humour, a man eyeing the bril- 

 liancy of a glass of the right sort with 

 inett'rtble delight, has been before treated 

 by Wilkieinhis Wliisivcy Still, and ere 

 that by Sbarp in his ISlan looking at 

 the brilliant rosy colour of a Glass of 

 Claret; yet it possesses beauties distinct 

 from either and of a high class in this 

 branch of art. It is undoubtedly Mr. 

 Kidd"s best picture, and gives us great 

 hopes of his success, without being 

 any longer a follower of AVilkie, which 

 he certainly «as. 



15.5. The young Hero dismayed, R. 

 Farrier. A child frightened at a 

 frog, is the incident from wiiich this 

 promising little picture of the school 

 of Wilkie is taken. The air of nature 

 which pervades it and his last year's 

 picture, convince us that if followed 

 up with study and practice, he may be- 

 come a distinguished artist. 



1 65. An Italian Pertsant,Mvs. CAR- 

 PENTER. The native air, and graceful 

 distribution of the component parts of 

 this excellent study from nature, ele- 

 vates it to a considerable lank in the 

 style of art to vvhicii it belongs. INIrs. 

 Carpenter appears to have lost none of 

 her powers by the necessary and inter- 

 esting cares of a family. 



168. f7ew of Ambleside Mill, P . Dii- 

 WINT. A lovely piece of nature ex- 

 cellently pourtrayed. 



169. l-'enelope recor/nititig Ulysses, 

 W. Hilton, H.A. This picture stands 

 by itself, and has no rival in tlie ex- 

 hibition. It is of small size, in which 

 Mr Hilton does not succeed so well as 

 in larger, is well coni])osed, and the 

 costume selected witli !aste. 



192. Thebardis of the yare,J. Stark. 



196. Inferior of a Stable, J. Ward. 



220. Seizure ofaBuar, E. Landseer. 



226. Chevy Chase ; the original 

 ik etch for the picture in the possession 

 of the Marquess of Stafford, by the late 

 Edward Bird, 11. A. The picture of 

 which this is the sketch is well known, 

 and has been fully described in the an- 

 nals of the fine arts and other periodi- 

 cal publications of the day. It is a 

 sketch of great ability, and we are hap- 

 py to Ijnd it has bei^n well sold fir Ihe 

 benefit of his widow. There are also 

 two other sketches by the same deceased 

 arliat ; namely, 



230. A soldier relating his adven- 

 tures at the b'lltle of IVnterloo, and 



234. T/ie Emoarkatiun of Louis 

 XVIII. 



269. Jerohoani's Idolatry reproved,^ 

 H. P. Bone. This young historical 

 painter is improving with sure steps. 



The Exhibition on the whole, ex- 

 hibils a tolerably fair specimen of the 

 lower schools of art, but (he liigh 

 grounds, which the directors assumed 

 a few years since in the cultivation of 

 historical painting, if resumed, would 

 be productive in a tenfold degree, as we 

 have more rising talent requiring their 

 fostering hand now, than at any other 

 period of English art. 

 Eihibition of MR. haydok's picture 



of CHRIST'S AGONY IN THE GAR- 

 DEN ; at the great room, No. 29, 

 St. James' s-street. 



Our opinion of Mr. Haydon, andof 

 his style of art, is too well known, and 

 has been too often expressed to need 

 repeliiion here. The present picture, 

 theAg ny of Christ in (he Garden, has 

 not been taken from the account of any 

 of the evangelists in particular, but 

 from the united relations of the four. 



The principal figure is (hat of Christ 

 kneeling in the foreground of the pic- 

 ture, as may he seen in tlie wood-cut, 

 at the moment, as the painter himself 

 expresses i(, when he accjuiesces to the 

 necessity of his approaching .sacrifice, 

 after the i)revious struggle of appre- 

 hension. 



" Nevertheless not my will, but thine 

 be done.'' 



The artist has eminently succeeded in 

 giving an air of submissive tenderness, 

 while a quiver of agony still trembles 

 on his features. The aposdes are rest- 

 ing a litde behind on a bank ; — St. John 

 in an unsound doze; St. Jfames in a 

 deep sleep; St. Peter has fallen into a 

 disturbed slumber against a tree, while 

 keeping guard with liis sword, and <ip- 

 pears literally on the ])i)int of waking 

 at the approach of light. Belujid St. 

 Peler, and stealing round the edge of 

 the mound, is Judas with a cc;nfuriou, 

 soldiers and a crowd. 



The expression of C'hrist is mild, 

 bland, and exhibits mental agony tem- 

 pered with resignation. I'he hands 

 and feet are among the most beautiful 

 specimens which the British school has 

 produced : and thecolouringand dispo- 

 sition of (he drapery g'and anil eifective. 

 The distance, the sky, the foreground 

 and other accessaries are in fine har- 

 mony with the rest of the picture, and 

 are finely painted. 



Royau 



