i8or.] 
We apprehend that this ingenious. ap- 
plication of a, few well-known principles 
will merit the attention of all gardeners ; 
and there appears to be no fallacy in the 
principles of this conttruétion, allowing, 
perhaps, for accidental irregularities im 
MONTHLY R 
Ketrofpec? of the sine Arts. 
533 
the tranfmiffion of heat, which cannot al- 
ways be contrived to follow exactly .the, 
track here affigned to it, owing to cir- 
cumftances which will immediately ftrike 
every one acquainted with the fubjeét, 
ETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
( Communications, and the Loan of al! new Prints are requeffed.) 
Adoration. - Painted by Sir William Beechey, 
R..A. Portrait-painter to Her Majefty.. En- 
graved by Caroline Watfon,, Engraver to Her 
Majefly; and pubbjped May 1, 1801, by 
R. Ackermann, Repofitory of rts, Now101, 
Strand. Price 63. Proofs, 7s. 6d. Co- 
doursy 12S. ; ‘ 
HE hiftory of portrait-painting in 
T this country would furnifh curious 
matter for the man who refie&ts upon the 
progrefs of fociety, and the progreffion of 
the human mind. When we confder the 
manner _in which they were painted by 
Vandyke, it excites aftonifhment that the 
art could fink fo low as it was at the ac- 
ceffion of his prefent Majefty. Sir Peter 
Lely had powers nearly equal to Vandyke, 
and perhaps fuperior tafte. His heads, as 
well as thofe of Sir Godirey Kneller, are 
fometimes painted in an exquifitely delicate 
ftyle. But on his death, Sir Godfrey 
having no competitor to excite his emula- 
tion, committed the management, and 
trufted the painting of all but the faces, to 
a fet of journeymen; for Kneller had a 
picture-manufactory, eftablifhed upon as 
regular principles as the fabrication of 
carpets at Kidderminfter. We have not 
room to enumerate his immediate and 
generally fpeaking, infignificant fuccef- 
fors. At one time Wotton’s portraits of 
hounds and horfes, grooms and fquires, 
with a diftant view of the dog-kennel and 
ftable in the back-ground; and Hudfon’s 
heads of gentlemen in great riding-coats 
and jockey-caps, decorated the drawing- 
rooms of our people of fafhion. ‘Thefe 
and fimilar Gothic delineations difgraced 
our national tafte until the time of Sir 
Jofhna Reynolds. He wav'd his magic 
pencil, and they vanifhed—but wot into 
air—into thin air,—for they were ufually 
banifhed to Harp alley, and their places 
fupplied by pictures of a very different 
quality. 
‘To make the mere map of a face, how- 
ever accurately, is intitled tono very high 
praife. To have judgment to felett the 
leading trait’ which diftinguifhes the man, 
- MonTHLy Mac, No. 74, 
x 
¢ . 
and tafte enough to place it in fuch a’cha- 
racteriftic point of view as gives to the 
portrait the merit of an hiftorical painting, 
is the great and leading excellence of the 
art ; and that merit Sir Jofhua pofieffed in a 
degree that entitles him to the firft rank 
in his profeffion. We have long confi- 
dered Sir William Beechey as his regular 
fucceflor; for, without fervilely copying 
his original, he is aétuated by a fimilar 
Spirit, and views nature through a fimilar 
medium. Sir Jofhua, in one of his <por~ 
traits, transferred Holbein’s fwageering 
and coloffal haughtinefs of Henry VIII. 
to the boyiflx jollity of Matter Crewe. 
Sir William, in this beautiful and fafci. 
nating little picture, which muft have 
been marked by many of cur readers at 
the Royal Academy, has given the por- 
trait of Lady Georgiana Bathurft in the 
character of ADORATION; and with thts 
character, the features, air, attitude, and 
expreffion, moft happily accord. The 
whole figure beams with elegant fimpli- 
city and true tafte; and the manner in 
which it is transferred to the copper, by 
Caroline Watfon, does high honour to 
the talents of this fair artift. The ftyle is 
exquilitely foft and delicate, and the cha-. 
racter perfectly conceived and accurately 
exprefied. 
Clyties. Painted by Maria Cofway, and ene 
graved by Emma Smitb. 
Clytie no more.—By Phebus’ friendly power, 
Her drooping form is changed into a flower; 
But ftill the flower her former paflion bears, 
And turns its beauties where the fun appears. 
AA Perfian. (The Companion Print.) 
When the bright fun difplays its early ray, 
And tells the glories of the-coming day, 
The Perfian to the rifing fplendour bows, 
And hails the facred obje@ of her vows. 
This is painted and engraved by the fame Artifts 
as the preceding, agd the Pair are publifbed 
by Ackermann, No. 101, Strand, Price 155. 
Proofs, 21s. Coloured, 303. 
Thefe prints are engraved by a young 
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