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pearance, and theyare invariably marked 
with a sort of commanding dignity that 
has not been equalled by any other 
painter. Those which Holbein deli- 
peated in this country, have usually an 
air of superiority that commands respect; 
that of Sir Thomas More, and some 
others, are highly characteristic. When 
Vandyke painted in this country, the 
nobility, &c. were generally divested of 
their whiskers, and were arrayed in a 
habit, that in his portraits is rendered 
extremely graceful and picturesque. 
Those of Sir Godfrey Kueller were. most 
of them got up in a kind of picture-ma- 
bufactory, as regularly established as 
that of carpets in Kidderminster, in 
which each drapery journeyman had his 
peculiar department allotted to him; and 
Sir Godfrey was as intent as the carpet- 
manufacturer on the acquisition of 
money. Sir Peter Jiely, who has been 
honoured with the appellation of the 
ladies’ painter—Sir Peter Lely, who de- 
lineated 
“The sleepy eye that spoke the melting 
soul,’* 
arraved many of his females in so fan- 
tastic a garb, that if the wearer had 
moved trom her seat, her dress must have 
fallen off. Sir Joshua Reynolds con- 
trived to give to his portraits an historic 
air, a character, a dignity, an individual 
consequence, that stamped on them an 
indelible value. Of the mass of maps of 
the human face, which we daily see is- 
sued from the portrait manufactories, the 
less is said, the better. 
His Excellency the Duke of Richmond, Lord, 
Lieutenant of Ireland, Gc. painted by Scott, 
and engraved by Charles Knight. 
Of this picture, considered as a pic- 
ture, we cannot say a great deal; but 
Mr. Knight’s engraving,which is in chalk, 
is in a respectable style. 
To the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, 
this Plate of their Daughter, Lady Careline 
Spenser, is with Permission humbly dedicared 
&c. by W.W. Barney. Cosway, R.A. pint. 
W. Whiston Barney, sculpt. Published for 
Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur-street. 
Mr. Cosway’s portraits we have al- 
ways looked at with respect; even his 
large miniatures, if they may be so class- 
ed, are in a superior style, and frequently 
have spirit, and a good air. In all his 
portraits, he aims at someting ; and to 
attempt originality, frequently leads to 
excellence. With all this, though we 
Must acknowledge we catmot always ac- 
@oinpany him in his aérial and fancifel 
Monruty Mae. Noe. 163. 
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excursions, (which he may sometimes be 
led into by the whim of “his employer,) 
we are better pleased, than we are with 
the servile imitator, who dares not devi- 
ate from the beat-n path. 
The portrait 01 Lady Caroline Spenser, 
many of our readers must remember in! 
the last exhibition; she was represented 
as tinkling some sort of a musical instru- 
ment in the clouds, but why, or where- 
fore, was not quite clear. 
The Right Reverend George Isaac Hunting ford, 
Lora Bishop of Gloucester, Lord Warden of 
Winchester College. T.Lawrence, R.A. pinxt. 
Games Ward, sculpt. published by R. Cribb, 
by whom it is, with Permission, dedicated to 
the Gentlemen of Winchester College. 
This portrait is painted in a manner 
that.is highly creditable to the artist, 
and extremely weil engraved in mezzo- 
tinto, 
Louth Steeple; taken from the South East. 
Etched by B Howlett; agua tinted by Lewis ; 
drawn by F. Nash, from an Original, taken 
on the Spot by T. Espin, Master of she Mathe- ~ 
matical and Comme:cial School, Louth, Lin- 
coli shir e. 
We hope that Mr, Buckley’s admirable 
publication, now -in its progress, of the 
Series of Cathedrals, which we bave oc- 
caslonally noticed with respect, (and it 
is nos easy to notice it with more respect 
than it is entitled to,) has diffused a 
taste for the Gothic, which properly 
treated has a most picturesque effect in 
aprint. This view is marked with ereat 
taste and skill, beth in the delineation 
~and engraving. 
Al Fox breaking Cover. Painted by Reinagley 
and engraved by Meadows and Lewis, de- 
dicated, with Permission, to the Earl of Dare 
lington, by the Publishers,Random and Sneath, 
Hart-street, Bloomsbury. 
Coursing. Painted by Reinagle, and engraved 
by Nichols and Bluck, dedicated ta the Members 
of the different Coursing Societies, Fe. Ge. by 
the same Publishers. 
As an attention tu the Fine Arts be- 
comes more general, and a knowledge of 
the principles of painting somewhat more 
universal, a degree of taste is diilused 
among the country gentlemen; and it 
naturally follows, that when there is a 
demand for prints of any particular de- 
sription, they will be multiphed, and 
numbers excite emulation; the effects 
appear in the engravings of this class, 
lately published, which are very superior 
indeed to the old class uf Tally Ho! mis- 
representations, that were wont to de- 
corate the parlours of our country 
squires. ‘They are engraved im a mixed 
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