1800.] 
their anceftors with refpeét, and incites’ 
them to emulate rhe examples fet be- 
fore them, in fuch characters as their 
Tate revered prefident, who muft in future 
ages rank very high among the legiflators, 
who by the prudence and moderation of 
their government have given ftability, or 
at leaft a great probability of it, to the 
ftates which were founded by their wif- 
‘dom. Stuart’s portrait of this great cha- 
raéter we noticed in our laft; and, like the 
medals of the heroes of Greece in its 
beft ftate, it will give to future ages the 
countenance of the man to whom America 
has been fo much indebted. 
The Battle of Bunker’s Hill 1s a grand 
defign. ‘The point of time is interefting : 
it reprefents two officers, one of the Bri- 
tifh, the other of the American, army, de- 
{perately wounded. The young Ameri- 
can is the principal figure, and is evidently 
in the agonies of death. An Englifh gre- 
nadier is prevented from giving him ano- 
ther wound with his bayonet, by an Ame- 
rican foldier, and a Britifh officer, the 
latter of whom humanely arrefts his arm 
in its progrefs. Thefe form the firft 
groupe. In the fecond, a Britith officer 
is carried off in the arms of the foldiers. 
It is a very fine print, and in defign much 
fuperior to the Sortie. The engraving 
does the higheft credit to the artift, J. G; 
by whom we do not recollect to have feen 
any print of much confequence befides 
this.—May his labours be fuceefsfully 
continued ! 
THE DEATH OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY. 
‘f. F. Clemens feulp. 
This print is not’ equal to the preced- 
ing, either in defign or execution, The 
defign is formal and too ftudied ; and the 
drawing, engraving, and general effect, 
inferior. The defign of each, in the mode 
-of thinking, diftribution of light and 
fhade, drawing, and indeed every thing 
that appears in a print, is much, rather too 
much, like the manner of the Prefident of 
the Royal Academy. 
Portrait of Bonaparte, whole length; painted 
at Milan, by A. Appiani; engraved in mex= 
zotinto by F. R. Smith, from the original pic- 
AL ture in the poffeffion of the Earl of Wycombe, 
publifbed Fan. 24, 1800. “11. Is. 
_ This is a good print ; and, for aught we 
know to the contrary, may be a likenefs; 
but in all the portraits which we have yet 
feen of the prefent Chief Conful of France, 
there is a heavy vulgarity, by no means 
cenfonant to the charaéter of the man. 
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283 
From all the {pecimens we happen to have 
feen, portrait-painting appears to be ata 
- very low ebb on the continent, and to this 
we may perhaps afcribe the want of any 
fhadow of that dignity with which the 
late Prefident of the Royal Academy im- 
preffled many of his portraits of the diftin- 
guifhed charaéters of thiscountry. Added 
to this, we have fome little doubt of the 
good faith of many of the importers of 
thefe fIriking likeneffes. 
The Fairing. The Savoyards. Painted by Sine 
gleton; engraved by C. Turner ; and publifhed 
by Colnaghi, price tl. ts. the pair. 
Thefe, though not very particularly 
ftriking in either defign or execution, are 
fimple and pleafing fubjeéts. In the firity 
we are prefented with a lady diftributing 
toys among a number of children, who 
feem not a little to exult in their acquifi- 
tions. In the fecond, fome children are 
liftening with attentive glee to a Savoyard 
mufic-grinder and his companion an ins. 
fant tamborina. , 
Rolla throwing bimfelf at the Feet of Pizarro. 
The Death of Rolla. The R. H. F. B. inv. 
The Right Hon. Lady Caroline Stuart, Wortley 
del. publifbed by Bovi, at 105. 6d. each. 
Thefe are right honourable defigns, and, 
‘confidered in that light, are entitled to 
great praife ; as it is highly creditable to 
ladies of rank to employ themfelyes in 
reprefenting what requires a portion of 
talent, and cultivates and improves their 
tafte, while fo large a number of their 
contemporaries are totally abforbed in 
their unremitting attention to cards of 
the faro-table. The defigns are pleafing ; 
the: fubjects, from the well known popu- 
lar play of Pizarro, are explained in. the 
titles : each of them has the name of 
Bovi, as engraver; but, we think, there 
are parts in each, in which the hand of 
Bartolozzi is plainly diftinguifhable. 
Portrait of Mrs. Arbuthnot. Hoppner pinxits 
S. W. Reynolds fculp. Publifbed for Rey- 
nolds, No. 47, Poland-ftreet. 75. 6d. 
This portrait is in a very good tafte, 
and intended as a companion to a print of 
Mrs. Bouverie. The general effe& is 
ftriking, but it would not be a lefs pleaf- 
ing print, if it were not of quite fo fombre 
a hue. 
Several prints, in a manner that fo ex. 
actly imitate the drawings, that it re- 
quires a very clofe attention to diftinguifh 
one from the other, have lately been pub- 
lifhed by Weftal, and beam with that ex-= 
quifite tafte, which fo eminently diftin- 
Oe2 guifhes 
