[ 5(M J [July J,. 



THE MONTHLY REVIEW and REGISTER of the FINE ARTSi 



" The value and rank of every art is in proportion to Itie mental labour employed in it, . , . 

 or tke mental pleasure produced by it." Reynolds, 



EXHIBITION at the ROYAL ACADEMY. 



Continued from page 466. 



SHARP'S fiue picture of an Author 

 reading his Play to the Perfoi-mers 

 in the Green-room of Drtirtj Lane Thea- 

 tre^ continues to attract daily crowds 

 from tlie great room where it ought to 

 have been situated, to the new room, of 

 which it is the greatest ornament. We 

 are glad to hear that it is to be en- 

 graved. 



The miniatures and enamels, this 

 year, are of unusual merit. Bone and 

 Muss are eminent among the latter, and 

 Robertson, Hanghtou, and Haines, 

 among the former. Haughton's large 

 miniatures of Messrs. Archer, Cole, and 

 Stanley, are in a broad and eft'ecfive 

 manner, and of a higlier style of art 

 than the common Higglers of tlie day. 



Of the architecture Ave cannot say 

 much ; some of the drawings from an- 

 tique buildingsare excell3nt,but of in- 

 Tention, tliis department is rery low. 

 Mr. Soane's poetical idea of a royal pa- 

 lace is an exquisite conception, and al- 

 most (he only grand design in the ex- 

 hibition. 



The sculptui-es are better: Rossi's 

 group of Celadon and Amelia, In mar- 

 ble, is a fine production, and does ho- 

 nour to his sl<ill and taste, as does his 

 model of a statue of the late President 

 West, for the execution of which he is 

 raising a subscription. Chantrey's 

 busts ai-e, as usual, excellent, particu- 

 larly his Sir Walter Scott and Words- 

 worth ; excepting only the oakum 

 wig, with whicii the Bard of the 

 Lakes has his bald brows enveloped, 

 instead of the wreath of laurel, which 

 he has earned so indisputably. 



The general charactei" of this year's 

 exhibition is, an improvement in the 

 departments of portrait, landscape, 

 colouring, and, among a few of the 

 younger ones, of drawing ; but 

 not a step in advance in historical 

 painting, for the encouragement of 

 which it was ostensibly established. 

 This high and necessary branch of art 

 is left by the Academy to itself, and 

 our best historical painters and other 

 artists, are those wlio are out of the 

 Academy. The new institution now 

 in progress will embody this mass of 

 talent, and an histoi ical academy will 

 soon be found in the country, for its 

 hjnour and its interest. 



MR. M. WYATT'S MONUMENTAL TRO- 

 PHY TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE 

 THE THIRD. 



" You may easily know," says Deaa 

 Swift, " when a great man is come into 

 the world, by the clattering there is 

 among the blockheads" — and we easily 

 know when a great work has beeu 

 achieved, by the clattering made by our 

 grajihic dunces. 



When Haydon achieved his triumph 

 over the Royal Academy, the block- 

 heads clattered at him, till seven years 

 apprenticeship at their dull and mali- 

 cious trade, convinced them they were 

 doing him a service, and like Envy were 

 cutting their own throats. When Soaus 

 had accomplished liis revolution of taste 

 over the Batty Langlcys and Borromi-. 

 nisof the day, in his classical and beau- 

 tiful additions to the Bank of England, 

 the blockheads clattered at him ; and 

 his grand conception for a royal palace 

 in the present exhibition has set them 

 clattering again. So when Mr. M. Wyatt 

 achieved his beautiful model for the 

 monument to the memory of the late 

 Princess Charlotte, now almost finished 

 in the marble, in a very short time, 

 they clattered violently and \msuccess- 

 fuUy at him ; and now lli'.it he has ac- 

 complished the only proposed monu- 

 ment to the personal virtues of our late 

 revered monarch with unexampled suc- 

 cess and with a committee of indispu- 

 table character, they have commenced 

 their clatterings again, and we pro- 

 phecy as we did in all the before cited 

 cases, with like success. 



These clatterings have, howevej-, 

 assxmied a resemblance somewhat 

 formidable, and as their charges are 

 specific, we will condescend to answer 

 tliem. They are, we believe, nearly as 

 follow : — 



1st. That it is a design from the au- 

 thor of the unfinished monument of the 

 Princess Charlotte ; therefore the au- 

 thor of the unfinished Wellington La- 

 dies' trophy must undertake nothing 

 else, till that be finished ; the designer 

 of the unfinished statue of the late Lady 

 Ellenborough must finish that before 

 he begins any thing else ; and the de- 

 signer of the unfinished new street 

 must not presume to begin any thing else 

 till that be finished ; nor must the Pre- 

 sident of the Royal Academy take an- 

 other 



