176 The Exhibition of Miniatures at South Kensington. 



his physician at St. Helena, O'Meara. — The same, ascribed to 

 Isabey, rather an overdone version, and not of the best, was 

 presented by Napoleon "to one of his Marshals before the 

 Russian campaign in 1812. The seal is the original one of 

 the letter of presentation to the Marshal." — The same, signed 

 "M, 1815," " mounted in a round, gold-lined snuff-box, was 

 given by the Emperor to one of his Marshals during the 

 Hundred Days." 



The Empress Josephine, by Yandenberg, 1800, is a very un- 

 flattering portrait. Josephine was thirty-seven years of age in 

 1800, and passed for being younger : here she looks more like 



Lady Hamilton, with her hair and initials at the back, 

 painted probably during her residence in Naples. This minia- 

 ture was worn by Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, and was 

 taken from his neck after his death. 



Wellington, by Isabey, 1816. 



General Acton, the Minister of Naples. There is nothing 

 very noticeable in the face of this celebrated intriguer : one 

 would have expected something more decisive, to mark the 

 man. 



Madame Becamier, by Isabey. This celebrated beauty and 

 queen of the Parisian salons seems, by the present portrait, 

 to have had too large a head, and singularly small arms. The 

 air of grace is nevertheless preserved. 



BEITISH POETEAITS EEOM THE EEIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, ONWAEDS. 



Lady Arabella Fermor, the heroine of Pope's " Rape of the 

 Lock." Oil. " She gave this portrait to one of the Wake- 

 mans, and at the same time refused his proposal." 



The Coalition, Lord North and Charles Fox, enamel, is an 

 amusing grotesque : a coalition-face, one half being proper to 

 the North and the other to the Fox visage. 



Mr. O'Hara, by Pompeo Battoni, is very perfect for style 

 and the look of life. It is seldom, so far as we know, that 

 this distinguished painter, originally a goldsmith, appears as a 

 miniaturist. 



George IV., as Prince of Wales, by Cosway. The remark- 

 able good looks of the prince in his youth, approaching to 

 handsomeness, but not entirely transcending prettiness, are 

 fully brought out in this likeness, among others. 



In the Mrs. Fitzherbert, by Cosway, this lady, so much 

 talked of on account of her private marriage to the Prince, 

 afterwards George IV., is represented as somewhat passee, 

 and with a cast of countenance not unlike Mrs. Siddons. — The 

 Exhibition contains also the Wedding-Ring of the Prince and 



