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word a manneri/?. Almoft all her men and 
women, her loves and graces—her cupids, 
—genii, &c. were repetitions upon réepe- 
‘titions of the fame figures in different at- 
titudes,—and the conlequence is that the 
prints from her early defigns, which were 
onde fo popular, are now confidered as ge- 
nerally deriving their principal value from 
the burin of the late W. W. Ryland, or 
Mr. Burke, who copied thefe flimfy deli- 
mneations in a manner that would have 
given value to fan-mounts, Mr. Ryder 
has however engraved this ftery, and his 
print laft year obtained the firft prize from 
the Society tor the Encouragement of Arts, 
Manufactures, and Commerce in the Adel- 
phi. So far is very well: but with all this 
it is tame and infipid, and does not dif 
play either tafte or feeling ; and the lels 
3s faid of the drawing or claro fcuro the 
better. It is laborioufly and carefully gn- 
graven in the line manner. 
Groffing the Brook. H. WY. Thomjon delt. A. W. 
. Say feulpt. Dédicated to Sir Fobu Flemming, 
Leicefier, Bart. 
Of the original piture, which was ex- 
hibited at the Royal Academy. (No. 166.) 
laft year, we {poke in a former Retrofpect, 
in fuch terms as we thought it deferved ; 
and it was not cafy to {peak of it in terms 
that would give too high an idea of its me- 
sit. It was a fimple and unaffected ap- 
peal to the mind without either adventi- 
fious ornament, or trick to deceive the 
eye, and did great honour to the artift. 
Mr. Say has given from it a very correct 
and pleafing mezzctinto. 
The Weary Sport{man,—and Shepherds repofing ; 
a pair of prints; G. Morland delt. W. Bond 
feulpt 
Thefe prints derive their principal me- 
rit from the dos, which are uncommonly 
fine. The other parts of the defigns are 
in Morlands ufual manner: they are very 
well engraved in chalks. 
Many diftingufhed charaders, Members of the 
Houfe of Commons during Sir Robert Walpoole’s 
 adminifiration. Engraved from an original 
pitture painted by Hogarth and Sir "fames 
Thornbill; by #. Fogg, and Dedicated to the 
Right Hon: Earl Oaflow, by E. Harding. 
Among the portraits are Sir Robert 
Walpole, Right Hon. Arthur Onflow, 
Speaker of the Houfe of Commons; Sir 
Jofeph Jekyll; Sidney Godolphin, father 
of the Houfe of Commons; Colonel! On- 
flow; Edward Stables, Efq. Cierk of the 
Houfé of Commons; Mr. Ayfkew, Al- 
fifant Clerk of the Houfe of Commons, 
&c. &c. Ke. a 
Confidering this pi€ture as containing 
the portraits of fo many dillinguifhed cna- 
raters, it muft be curious and interefting 
Montbly Retro[peét of the Fine Arts. 
[Feb. 1, 
to thofe who collect the heads of illufricus 
perfons; in every other point of view it is 
unworthy of Hogarth. We do not by 
this mean to fay, that it is a bad picture 5 
‘but when a man fo eminently qualified to 
delineate the mind, employs his magic pen- 
cil in giving mere maps of the faces of per= 
fons of honour,—we cannot help thinking 
his time might have been better employed. 
Hogarth’s own opinion of this branch 
of the art, extracted from bis own manu- 
jeripts, is given in feweral parts of the 
third volume of Hogarth, illufirated by Fobn 
Ireland, In p. 76 of that work, this great 
artift remarks that “¢ In Holland felfifhnefs 
is the ruling paffion ; in England vanity is 
united with it. Portrait- painting therefore 
ever has, and ever will better fucceed 
in this country than in any other ; the de- 
mand will be as conftant as new faces 
arife, and with this we muft be contented, 
for it will be vain to attempt to ferce what 
can never be accomplifhed, or at leaft can 
never be accomplifhed by fuch inftitutions 
as Royal Academies on the fyftem now in 
agitation. Upon the whole, it muft be ac- 
knowledged that the artifs and the age 
are fitted for each other. If hereafter the 
times alter, the arts, like water, will find 
their level. 
Sir Godfrey Kneller was wont to fay 
in defence of portrait»painting, when op- 
poled to hiftorical painting, that the latter 
only revived the memory of the dead, who 
could give no teftimony of their gratitude; 
but that when he painted the living, he 
gained what enabled him to live in a Iplen, 
did ftyle, from the rewards they paid him 
for his labours.’’ 
The miraculous Converfion of Saul. Edward 
Dayes delt. Thomas  Hellyer feulpt. Dedicated . 
to the Right Reverend and Reverend the Bi- 
foops aud Clergy of the United Kingdoms of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 
This is the largeft chalk print that has 
ever been publifhed, and is extremely well 
engraved ; and we hope, when the Right 
Reverends and Reverends to whom if is 
infcribed, confider the fubjeét; they will 
purchafe it, and patronize the fale... With 
refpeét to the conception and execution of 
the picture,—Saul’s glaring eye-balls, dil 
tended noftrils, and mouth {iretched open, 
are decided proofs, that he is as much 
terrified as a man can be; and the fury 
and fire with which one of the foldier’s 
horfes has faftened his teeth. in the nofe 
of the beaft next him, leads us to think ~ 
that this houynhym is of the fame race. . 
¢¢ as thofe, 
_ Who fed on men’s flefh ! as fame goes 5) 
Strange food for horfes! yetalas, 
It may be true, for ficih is grafs.” 
Little 
