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4 Portrait of Sir F. Borlafe Warren is engrav- 
ing by Henry Richter, as a Companion to the 
Print of Lord Nelfon. 
For thofe who are not attraéted by either 
{culpture, painting, or engraving, but who 
are yet defirous of feeing the naval glory of 
their country commemorated, Mr. Turner 
exhibits a new invented piece of animated 
mechanifm, 30 feet in length, by 12 feet 
in height, entitled Naumacutia, and re- 
prefenting the aétion between the French 
and Englifh Fleets at the Battle of the 
Nile. 
The Fifteenth Number of Boydell’s Shake[peare is 
publifeed. Three Numbers more, which are in 
great forwardne/s, will complete this {plendid 
z, bd 
Work. 
Mr. Alderman Boydell, who, if not the 
father of the arts, may very fairly be de- 
nominated the father of the artifts in this 
country, has, by his extenfive and {pirited 
plan of the Shakefpeare Gallery, given 
birth to other commercial undertakings, 
which have held out to fuch artifts as had 
the power, an encouragement that was 
never given by the nobility, whofe tafte for 
Englith pictures has gone little farther than 
portraits. ‘The Alderman, in his zeal for 
an art in which he is himfelf fo deeply in- 
terefied, has endeavoured to introduce a 
tafte for paintings into the city ; and, asa 
foundation for future contributions, has 
prefented a number of very fine pictures 
tor the Council-room at Guildhall. The 
jate Prefident’s admirable picture of Lord 
Heathfield would of itfeli be a {chool for 
portrait-painting : it is indifputably the 
fineft head Sir Jofhua Reynolds ever 
painted. His full length of Lord Camden 
was never worthy of theartift: he difliked 
his firft painting of the head,—cut it out of 
the picture, and then, on a patch of canvas 
which he introduced in its place, painted 
another head. ‘This becoming glaringly 
apparent, and the teeth of time having 
made other ravages in the painting, the 
Alderman employed a perfon to clean it ; 
and this fpecimen has been fo much ap- 
proved, that the fame perfon is now em- 
ployed in cleaning the portraits of the King 
and Queen : after which he is to be em- 
ployed in repairing the portraits of the able 
and virtuous Sir Matthew Hale, and ele- 
ven contemporary judges, which now hang 
round the great room in Guildhall, and 
are literally fallen mto decay. ‘Yo thefe 
twélve judges, but principally to Sir Mat- 
thew, the city cwe every tribute of grati- 
tude and refpcét ; for, after the dreadful fire 
in 1666, they regulated the re-building of 
the city of Lendon by fuch wife reguis- 
tions, between landlord and tenant, 
az ia 
Retrofpedt of the Progrefs of the Fine Arts. 
[ December, 
prevent the endlefs train of vexatious law- 
fuits which might have enfued, and would, 
if managed with proper legal procraftina- 
tion and delay, have been nearly as much 
expence as re-building the whole city. 
Thefe portraits were painted by a good 
artift (Michael Wright), who died in the’ 
year 1700. He was paid fixty pounds for 
each portrait. It was intended that they 
fhould have been painted by Sir Peter Lely, 
but he faftidioufly refufed to wait upon the 
Judges at their own chambers. 
In the year 1779, they were found to be 
in (o bad a condition as to make it an even- 
queftion with the committee of city-lands, 
whether they fhould be continued in their 
places, or committed to the flames ? To 
the eternal honour of Alderman Town- 
fhend, his vote decided in favour of their 
prefervation. He recommended the late 
Mr. Roma, asa perfon qualified to reftore 
them to fome part of their original bright- 
nefs, and by him they were then repaired 
and beautified. Mr. Wilder is the perfon 
recommended to the fame office by Alder- 
man Boydell, and we may hepe that by his 
fuperintendence of the artift’s labours they 
may be fo repaired, as to refift the ravages 
of time, ive a Little longer, and remain an- 
other century honourable monuments of 
the rectitude of the Judges, and the grati- 
tude of the city of London. 
Hogarth’s two pi€tures of the Good 
Samaritan and the Pool of Bethefda, at 
St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital, have alfo been 
recently cleaned by the fame perfon—and fe 
well cleaned, that it was with great plea- 
fure we faw our old friends with a clean 
face. : 
A Seleétion of Views in the County of Lincoln, 
comprifing the principal Towns and Churches, 
the Remains of Caftles and religious Houfes, and 
Seats of the Nobility and Gentry 5 with topo- 
graphical and biftertical Accounts of each View. 
Publifbed by Barthoiomew Howlett, Green- 
Walk, Blackfriars-Road. 
This work, to adopt the phrafe of the 
bookfellers, is got up with uncommon ele- 
gance. ‘Theengravings are very neat, and 
the printing, which is frem Bulmer’s 
prefs, is peculiarly fine. The defcrip- 
tions of the Abbeys, Caftles, &c. of which 
there are engraved views, are fhort, but 
contain much that may be both curious and 
ufeful to the lovers of Englihh antiquities. 
In the defcription of Langton Hall, the 
family feat of Dr. Johnfon’s valued and 
valuable friend Bennet Langton, 1s an 
anecdote which ftrongly marks the Dec- 
tor’s curicfity to attain fome criterion by 
which he could form a judgment of the 
{pace and comparative degrees of accom: 
modation.in which the houlcs of our an- 
ceftors 
