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disgust ?—to stretch our eyes with wonder 
at the elaborate extravagance, and make us 
bewail over the dereliction of taste ? 
Did the academicians place this picture 
here to disgrace the memory of a departed 
brother? or to warn all future students of 
the pedantries and extrayagancies they 
ought to shun ?—No much better purpose, 
we conceive, is likely to be answered, by 
the display of (216) the Psyche of the 
same departed artist ? - - 
(To be concluded in the Supplement. ) 
BRITISH INSTITUTION. 
Tue exhibition of this Institution for pro- 
moting the Fine Arts in the United King- 
dom, presented this year a choice selection 
from the masterpieces of our most cele- 
brated living artists—borrowed, for that 
temporary purpose, of the respective pro- 
prietors: and among them we recognize 
many that have graced the former exhibi- 
tions of the Royal Academy; and some, 
if we mistake not, that we have seen while 
they were yet fresh from the hands of the 
respective masters, in the former exhibi- 
tions of this very Institution.’ Particular 
notices are therefore unnecessary, unless 
we had space to go into general criticism 
on the respective styles, and canvas the 
reasons for the preference given to some 
artists, and the rejection of others. Suffice 
it, therefore, to say, that it-is a collection 
that dees honour to the English sthool ; 
and that some of the contributions of the 
honorary, and of the lady artists, among 
whom we may particularize Lady Long, 
and Mrs. Carpenter, evince, that neither 
rank nor sex is found in the present day to 
present any prejudiced obstructions in the 
way of success, to the cultivation of the 
painter’s art, 
MR. BONE’S ENAMELS. 
The art of enamel-painting May almost 
be said to owe its origin to Mr. one ;.at 
least in that state in which it is qtitled to 
take a distinguished station among the Fine 
Arts: for every thing that was done in this 
way before his time, was upon so contracted 
a scale, and of such inferior execution, that 
it might be regarded as fitter for the furni- 
ture of jewellers, or of the toy-shop, than 
for exhibition in the Galleries of Art. Mr. 
Bone not only brought it to perfection in 
the style of artist-like execution, but showed 
the possibility of extending its beauties over 
a larger field, and, consequently, rendering 
Fine Arts :—British Institution—My. Bone’s Enamels. 
[July I, 
it a mean of giving imperishability to the 
essential charms and excellencies of those 
master pencils, hitherto trusted only to the 
frailer record of the canyas and the pannel. 
Several of his beautiful copies from Titian, 
Raphael, and other pre-eminent masters of 
the best days of art, have occasionally fallen ~ 
under our view, preserved, with wonderful. 
fidelity, by this ingenious artist, in all their 
‘characteristic beauty, though in diminished 
proportions, to a surface, which even fire 
itself, unless augmented to the acmé of 
furnace heat, cannot destroy: and which, 
therefore, may continue to vindicate the 
high reputation of those masters through 
distant centuries, which otherwise might 
have known of them only the name. 
For several years Mr. Bone has been 
occupying such portions of his time as were 
not dedicated to the demands of his royal 
and noble patrons, in forming an historical 
collection of copies in his unrivalled enamel, 
from original portraits, of the statesmen, 
the warriors, the poets, the philosophers, 
and the distinguished beauties of the age 
of Elizabeth: including all the most ap- 
proved and authentic portraits of the Queen 
herself. We have watched, for several 
successive years, with great interest, the 
progress of that collection, and we are 
happy to find, not only that it is now com- 
pleted, but that there is a probability, at 
least, that it will find a place, with an ap- 
propriate apartment allotted for its arrange- 
ment, in the National Gallery of Art—the 
formation of which has for some years been 
meditated ; and the plans for the erection 
of which are now in some forwardness. 
Of this valuable assemblage of the re- 
nowned, in a highly-gifted and illustrious 
age, Mr. B. is now offering to those admirers 
of the art, who make timely application for 
tickets, a weekly exhibition (every Thurs- 
day, from one to five o’clock, till the end 
of July), at his house in Berners-street. 
The portraits are far too numerous for par- 
ticular animadversion ; and criticism they 
do not require; but there are two in parti- 
cular which always rivet our attention, with 
peculiar demands upon our sympathy, and 
which charm us, therefore, so much the 
more, with the exquisiteness of the execu- 
tion—the unfortunate Mary, Queen of 
Scots, whose envied beauty was the prin-— 
cipal cause of all her calamities and her 
untimely—death, we were going to say, but 
7 it ought to be—judicial murder ; and the early 
© portrait of her superb, but imperious rival :-— 
that 
