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once ; and prohibiting his subordinates from being hucksters and pawn- 

 brokerSj will, by setting them an example in those matters, try to 

 raise them to the position of gentlemen. 



There is some promise of exertion among the leading painters for the 

 ensuing season. The president is painting away vigorously, finding 

 beauties or making them, and turning the hollow eyes and sallow skins 

 that the winter has left among the fools of fashion, into flashes of light- 

 ning and buds of roses. He is a capital painter. of ]\Iessalinas. 



Shee has some powerful male portraits ; and Turner is, as usual, 

 revelling like a Leviathan in an ocean of colour. The Highlands are 

 crowded with plunderers of lakes and heaths, sunlights and showers. 

 Sharpe has a picture of " Crossing the Line," grotesque and clever. 

 Witherington, whose painting of " Don Quixote and Sanclio," at the 

 late Somerset-house exhibition, elicited so much applause, is exercising 

 his pencil on a pictui-e in the higher department of tlie arts, from which 

 much is expected. His picture of " The Soldier's Wife," painted for 

 the Rev. Mr. Knapp, is, we believe, to be placed in Windsor Castle, his 

 Majesty having greatly approved of it. Lance has in hand a festive 

 picture for Fawcett, the comedian ; and another. " TJie Robber sliewing 

 Gil Bias the Plunder of his Cave." The treasures of Rundcll and 

 Bridge have been open to his studj\ He has neavl,v finished a beautiful 

 " Groupe of Fruit," for IMr. Wells. Where Landseev is we are igno- 

 rant, but his studies of natui-c we suppose are continued. Noilon is 

 engaged on a head of the " Duke of Clarence." Slous, tlie painter of 

 " Pandemonium," has gone to paint an Elysium. Lee, the landscape 

 painter, has taken a trip to the Rhine, to spend a few month? in the 

 Black Forest. Webster has retired to ^^'lndsor to complete his picture of 

 a '• Village Fair." Leslie is painting " Tvistrara Shanuy making 

 love to Tabitha Bramble." Newton is painting a " Young Lady 

 reading a Love Letter, and taking an Emetic." Ilaydon is paint- 

 ing a picture of " Coriolanus meeting Alexander the Great at the Tomb 

 of Julius Ca?sar in Constantinople." AVilkie is painting a portrait of 

 " Mr. Peel in the disguise of a Black Footman, carrying in a Tea-kettle 

 for a Treasury Break iiist." That clever animal painter Landseer has a 

 capital picture of l\Ir. ^\'illiam Holmes whipping in memliers from the 

 coffee-room, to cheer a falling minister's speech. The dogged reluc- 

 tance of the whipped is said to be a fine effort of nature. The whipper 

 wears the new police costume, and is looking for a new thong to his 

 whip from the ]\f aster-General of the Ordnance. Tlie whole is capital. 

 Danby is painting a " Tea-Tray" for the INIarchioness of Worcester, 

 with a portrait of the late ]\Lirchioness in the centre. "Westraacott is 

 busy casting the Duke of Wellington in brass, from some tons of 

 condemned ordnance. Chantiy lias excelled himself in a model of the 

 Lord Goderich, as a lackey, with his finger in his mouth, and carrying 

 a goose-pie into a Cabinet-dinner. The look of native simplicity is 

 finely mingled with the official dignity of the menial. 



" There is nothing new under the sun." The characters of the succes- 

 sive genei'ations are not half so changeable as the fashions of their 

 doublets. We find this character of a duke, who afterwards ascended a 

 throne. The duke was the pro-papist Duke of York, who afterwards 

 was the King James II., of papist and unprosperous memory. The 

 cliaracter was actually published in the century before the last, so 



