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superiority of this race of painters, 
when viewed through the medium of 
their real master-pieces. 
The Exhibition of the Works of 
President West is still open, but is 
now so augmented, as to amount to 
140 pieces, the productions of this 
great artist. Mr. West’s chief excel- 
lence lay in the historical and poetical 
departments of art, but his diversified 
pieces are most creditable to his ta- 
lents. The original pictures of the 
Sea-Fight at La Hogue, of the Death 
of Wolfe and Nelson, and the Rescue 
of a wounded French Officer from the 
Tomahawk of a North-American Sa- 
vage, have lately been introduced. 
The eighteenth Exhibition of Paint- 
igs in Water-colours has been as 
attractive as usual. Among this re- 
spectable body of artists, Barrett 
seems to be pre-eminent: bis View from 
Richmond-hill is beautiful; his After- 
noon and Evening have likewise great 
merit; and the View of Bisham Abbey 
is well drawn, and finely coloured. 
Copley Fié¢lding has, as usual, been 
diligent: his flat scenery is excellently 
managed ; the View of Romney-marsh 
isa masterpiece. Cox, too, is respec- 
table. Wild and Cattermole have 
some good architectural drawings, 
and Miss Byrne has some elegant 
groups of flowers and fruit. Robson 
has also displayed considerable talent 
in numerous productions; and Prout 
has enabled us to make the tour of 
Europe with unmixed pleasure. There 
are also some exquisite pieces by 
Varley. Altogether this is amost de- 
lightful exhibition. 
The artists of Ireland have been in- 
corporated into a Society, like the 
Royal Academy. A council of four- 
teen have been chosen, and ten asso- 
ciates are to be elected next year 
from Irish exhibitors. 
Mr. Heath’s engraving from West’s 
grand picture of Christ’s healing the 
Sick, purchased by the British Institu- 
tion in 1811 for 3000 guineas, is 
finished. Mr. H. had 1,800 guineas 
for his task, which has occupied him 
no less than eleven years. 
The British Institution has exhibited 
this season some choice productions 
from the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, 
and Dutch schools. In the first was 
Carlo Dolece’s St. Matthew and St. 
John; also a design for the Cruci- 
fixion, by Michael Angelo; a beantiful 
picture of the Virgin and Child, St. 
John, and St. Elizabeth, by Perino del 
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Vago ;a Virgin and Child, by Procac- 
cino; and a Virgin and Child, St. 
John, * Elizabeth, and Catharine, by 
Andrea del Sarto. The King contri- 
buted twenty-two pictures. The best 
productions of the Spanish school 
were two representations of St. Fran- 
cis, by Murillo. The works of Gaspar 
Poussin were very fine. The pieces 
by Cuyp were not of the first order. 
A brisk Gale, by Backhuysen, was an 
excellent piece; and the T'wo Misers 
of Quintin Matsys commanded admi- 
ration. Rembrandt’s Belshazzar, the 
Five Senses and the Four Seasons of 
Teniers, and the Three Children of 
Charles I. by Vandyke, with Ostade’s 
Chemist, were ornaments of the gal- 
lery. 
Mr. Warop, too, has had an Exhibi- 
tion. Among his finest productions 
were a bull, a cow, a calf, sheep, and 
goats, excellently grouped, amidst 
appropriate scenery. A Horse spring- 
ing from the Attack of a Wild Boar ; 
various Studies, executed with great 
accuracy and force; a copy from 'Ti- 
tian’s Bath of Diana; and an Arabian, 
a smafl stady,—were all masterly. 
Some Roman discoveries have re- 
cently been made at Castor, near 
Peterborough, by Mr. Artis, of Mil- 
ton. The scene of his labours is an 
isosceles triangle, two sides being 
about two miles long, the third about 
a mile and a half, and the church-yard 
of Castor the vertex. In the church- 
yard and adjoining hill he has satis- 
factorily traced fifty-six rooms in a 
villa, which appears to have eovered 
between 5 and 600 feet square. In 
Mill-field, at the south-east angle of 
the triangle, is another villa, about 
300 feet long by 220 feet wide, con- 
taining twenty-two rooms; and at the 
south-west angle is a third villa, about 
300 feet square, with thirty-seven 
rooms. In the portions of the inter- 
mediate space which have been ex- 
plored, tesselated pavements, founda 
tions of small houses, and a variety 
of miscellaneous curiosities have been 
brought to light. Between the base 
of the line and the river, probably the 
suburbs of a city, several skeletons 
have been dug up. Mr. A. purposes 
publishing by subscription, in numbers, 
a series of plates illustrative of his 
discoveries, consisting of plans and 
sections of the buildings and hypo- 
causts, tesselated pavements, pottery, 
paintings in fresco, sculptured stones, 
coins, Xc. 3 
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