1800.] 
No. 424, Portrait of S. Athawes, Efq.. 
This portraiture does Mr. Smith very 
high honour: is is not a mere map of the 
countenance, but a moft fpirited and forci- 
ble reprefentation of the mind, delineated 
and coloured in a broad and mafterly fyle: 
the whole beams with fimplicity and na- 
ture, and produccsan effe& that we do not 
recolle& to have ever {een transferred in 
an equal degree to a {mall whole-length. 
The fhadow given tothe tace from the hat 
is peculiarly picturefque, and the back- 
ground &c, isin perfect harmony with 
the reft of the picture, in which the dog 
is marked in a manner that would not 
have been furpaffed, if it had been equal- 
‘led, by many artifts, who, without ever 
attempting to draw ¢he image of man, 
have devoted their whole lives to painting 
quadrupeds. 
In thenext pifture Mr. Smith has quit- 
ted the path in which he has fo much de- 
ferved celebrity, and, in No. 442, given a 
delineation from Burn’s very beautiful de- 
icription of 
The Catter’s Saturday Night. 
«But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; 
Jenny, wha kens the meaning of the fame, 
Tells how a neebor lad came o’er the moor 
To do fome errands, and convoy her hame. 
The wily mother fees the confcious fame 
Sparkle in Jenny’s ee, an’ fluth her cheek: 
Wi? heart-ftrack anxious care, enquires ‘his 
name ; 
While Jenny hafflins is afraid to fpeak ; 
‘Weel pleas’d the mother hears it’s nae wild 
worthlefs rake. ‘ 
Wi" kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben, 
A ftrappan youth; he takes the mother’s 
eye 5 - 
Blythe Jenny fees the vifit’s no ill tae’n 5 
The father cracks o” horfes, ploughs, ‘and 
kye.” 
The poet has painted this fcene with 
moft interefting fimplicity, and the painter 
has transferred his ideas to the canvas, in 
a charaéteriftic and attractive compofition, 
marked with truth and narrative. 
figure of Jenny is modeft and attractive, 
‘and beams with rural beauty, unalloyed by 
meretricious ornaments. The parents 
have that fober, prudent, and ferious caft, 
which marks a large portion of the pea- 
fantry of North-Britain; the young man 
has a ‘modeft confcioufnefs, and the co- 
‘louring of the whole is natural and pleaf- 
‘ing. 
No. 553. Mr. Swan and Family. 
The figures are well drawn and fkilful- 
Jy grouped: of the likenefs we. cannot 
judge, having never {een any of this family; 
Monthly Retrofpect of the Fine Arts: 
The - 
419 
but a portait of any one that we knew, 
by Mr. Smith,.has always been a ftrong 
refemblance. 
No. 535. Dr. Hunter cf York. 
This is a moft ref{pectable looking por- 
trait, and we believe the face is the mirror 
of the mind of the original, whofe médical 
talents need not be recorded in this page 5 
they are recorded in a better place—the 
hearts of very many whom his profeffional 
attentions have railed from the bed of 
ficknefs. His literary reputation is founded 
on works that will long furvive the author 5 
and his benevolence has been exerted on 
many occafions. _ The exertions that he 
made for the eftablifhment of the Lunatic 
Afylum at York are the more honourable, 
as the objects relieved are not generally 
capable of expreffing, or even feeling, gra- 
titude to their benefactors. 
No, 587. T. Hartley;. Efg. as the R. Hon. the 
Lord Mayor of York. ~. 
A very fine head; painted, we believe, in 
the undrefs of the office. 
The uncommon abilities of Mifs Emma 
Smith we have had frequent occafion to 
mention, and regret that fhe has only two 
miniatures in this Exhibition ; but we lock 
forward to another year, in the hope that 
fhe will not be tardy in her purfuit of that 
fame and diftinétion an the arts, which 
the gave fuch early promife of becoming 
qualified to obtain. i 
No. 23. Henry IIL. replying to the Bifbops, 
who, deputed by the Ecclefiaftical Order, bi d 
remonfirated with him on bis frequent Violations 
of the Privileges of bis Subjects, and the uncano§ 
nical and forced Elections which were made te 
vacant Dignities. R. Weffall, R. A. f 
“tis true (replied the king) I have 
been fomewhat faulty in this particular: 
I obtruded you;:my Lord of Salifbury, upon 
your fee ; I was obliged to employ both 
entreaties and menaces, my Lord of Win. 
chefter, to have you elected : my proceed- 
ings I confefs were very irregular, my 
Lords of Salifbury and Carlifle, when I 
raifed you from the loweft {tations to your 
prefent dignities : I am determined hence- 
forth to correét thefe abufes ; and it will 
alfo become you; in order to make a tho- 
rough reformation, to refign your prefent 
*benefices, andtry to enter again in a more 
“regular and canonical manner.”’—Hume, 
Vol. 2. Chap xt. 
Of Mr. Wettall’s tafte and talents, we 
‘have always thought very highly, and we 
think his manner is materially improved’; 
he paints ina broader and better ftyle than 
‘that which marked his early produétions. 
Hume 
The very animated {peech which 
/ ; tose “has 
