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#stent.with the character. She is the love- 
smitten maiden entire.—‘ Poor smitten — 
deer! thou hast it in thy heart !”—though 
perliaps we might say, that the uplifted 
knee has more of writhing, or of strenuous 
action, than consorts with the Janguor ju- 
diciously diffused over every other part. 
The colouring is in a tone beautifully tem- 
pered to the subject and the hour—such as 
one may well imagine would be diffused 
over the objects by the moonlight of an 
Italian sky. But the most perfect picture 
if the whole exhibition, and that in which 
‘ve were most deeply interested, is G. Hay- 
ter’s “Trial of Lord William Russell at the 
Old Bailey, in 1653.” Nothing can well 
surpass the skill with which the artist has 
arranged his very unpromising materials. 
He has contrived to make even the judges 
in their costume, and the barristers in their 
wigs and gowns, picturesque ; and the tech- 
nical arrangements of the court lose, in his 
management, their mechanical formality. 
If we descend to detail, every figure in the 
multitude assembled and grouped speaks 
the part he is bearing in the scene ; and the 
lovely form of Lady Russell, “the virtuous 
daughter of Southampton,” as she sits at 
the table beneath the feet of her arraigned 
husband, with the pen in her hand, to assist 
him in his trial, and turns her fine-eyes and 
features up to him, beaming through their 
‘sorrows with all the tender attention of a 
sublime and dignified affection, seizes irre- 
sistibly upon the heart, and we lose sight 
ofthe artist in the perfection of his art. 
‘We gazed upon it till our eyes were full of 
that effusion which resembles weeping, as 
the smile of the heart resembles vacant 
laughter. We close here : for after dwell- 
ing upon-this picture; we can remember no 
‘more. 
OBITUARY 
ms : WILLIAM BROWN, ESQ. 
“¢RN the 20th instant, in John Street, 
‘YF Fitzroy Square, William Brown, Esq-, 
in the 77th year of hisage. His éalents 
as a gem engraver will hand down his name, 
in conjunction with Marchant and Burch, 
to the latest posterity: his universal phi- 
anthropy, his unaffected kindness and in- 
‘trinsie worth, ‘will be ever remembered by 
his family ‘and friends, to whom his death 
‘is a souree of the most sincere sorrow. 
_ An early life, Mr. Brown enjoyed the. pa- 
tronage of the Empress Catherine of Rus- 
sia, and had an unlimited order for her 
_ “gabinet, in'which'the principal ‘part of his 
Obituary of the. Month. 
‘or Roman workmanship. 
“accepted a place in the Stamp Office, 
[ Aug» 1, 
Mr. Hortanp—has just finished A View 
neor Sheffield, which is considered as a 
chef-d’wuvre ; and which, certainly, pose 
sesses all the peculiar excéllence for which 
this artist is so justly celebrated. The per- 
spective of the immense expanse of country 
embraced is really a surprising effort of 
genius ; the distances are softened down 
with a mellowness and truth of nature, 
that has rarely been surpassed. The fore- 
ground is also beautifully : varied, and 
finished with every attention to precision 
and effect. The grouping of three rustic 
figures in the centre, with cattle in the dis- 
tance, and the smoke arising from the town 
of Sheffield (which is hid among the hills 
to the right), give ‘a life to the coup-d’eil 
truly enchanting. E 
ZODIAC OF DENDERA. " 
THE copy of this very extraordinary re- 
lique of ancient Egyptian art and science, 
which was. made by order of Napoleon, 
before the possibility of removing the origi- 
nal was ascertained, is now exhibiting at 
No. 47, Leicester-square, and is as beauti- 
ful as itis curious. There is also in the 
same exhibition a very large collection of 
portraits, by artists of all nations, among 
which are some fine ones by Rubens and 
by Vandyke: but the Knellers and the 
Lelys, &c. are numerous. Among the 
few by modern artists, Gerrard’s Jerome, 
King of Westphalia, his Queen, and “ Na- 
poleon in his Robes, on black marble,” are the 
best. The miniature of Shakspeare, ‘in 
an oval concave of virgin gold, formerly 
belonging to the Southampton family,’’ is 
a highly interesting’ curiosity. sus 
OF THE MONTH. 
works are deposited. The French revo- 
lution having obliged him to quit Paris, 
whete he was much patronized by the 
court of Louis XVI, he retumed to 
England, to find his fayourite art neglected 
and forgotten, except where the ingenuity of 
Italian artists could extract from his weal- 
thy countrymen immense sums, for modern 
antiques and spurious specimens of Greek 
Of Burch and 
‘Marchant, the former had sheltered him- 
self in the Royal Academy, of which he 
was appointed librarian; the latter-had 
as an 
engraver of stamps. Under these cou- 
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