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that have powers commensurate to the 
execution, such productions are at once 
honourable to the skill and genius which 
produce them, and to the country where 
they are produced. We have been told, 
that Mr. Holloway has several of the 
plates in great forwardness, and are happy 
to hear that be has a very liberal and 
noble subscripuon, 
The Death of Lord Nelson Painted by Samuel 
Drummond; Engraved by George Clint.. Pub- 
lished for Drummond, Church-street, Sobo. 
Mr. Drummond’s professional abilities 
we have always thought df with great re- 
spect. Many of his productions display 
great marks of ability; and this is worthy 
of the artist, and will hold a very respect- 
able rank indeed among the numerous 
compositions on the same subject. The 
picture, which was of a large size, was 
exhibited at Mr. Drammond’s, and at the 
Gallery of Arts, Pall-mall. 
secure a certainty, that no faulty or 
worn-out impressions should be taken 
from the copper, the plate, after a given 
number were taken off, (1 think three 
hundred,) was destroyed. 
His Most Gracious Majesty George III. T. 
Stothard, R.A. pinxt. Engraved, published, 
and respectfully dedicated to bis Mayesty’s 
loyal and faithful Subjects, by G. Testolini, 
Cornbill. — 
It is a little singular that in this age 
of portraits, we have never yet had what 
could be called a capital portrait of his 
Majesty ; but so it unquestionably is. 
Mr. Stothard’s, from which this is en- 
graven, was a good picture, and the 
print, which is a small whole length, in 
the chalk manner, is very fair; but it 
would perhaps have been entitled to a 
higher class, if it had been rather more 
delicately finished. 
The Marquis of Stafford has displayed 
more taste and spirit in his exertions to 
promote, encourage, and patronize the 
fine arts, than any other nobleman 1a 
this country. His throwing open his 
splendid mansion in Cleveland-row, for 
four or five months in the year, to gratify 
the amateur, and exhibit to the nobility, 
connoisieurs, &e. the productions of Eng- 
lish artists, many of which he has.rece ntly 
purchased at most liberal prices, is better 
calculated to excite a spirit of competition, 
promote the English school, and hold out 
a grand and patriotic example to other 
men of rank, than any plan that has 
been hitherto adopted. 
Besides this, we learn that he is at 
present erecting a gallery at Trentham, 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
In order to . 
435 
in Staffordshire, to be entirely appro- 
priated to the productions of English 
artists. For the decoration of this, the 
noble Marquis has purchased a number 
of the best selected paintings from the 
British Gallery at a considerable expense; 
these, together with several others, which 
his lordship has collected from other 
sources, are shortly to be sent down to 
enrich this new’ depository of the arts. 
The gallery is to be sixty feet long, and 
is to be constructed on the most magni- 
ficent and elegant style that the taste of 
Tatham the architect can devise. 
Mr. Laurence has been peculiarly suc- 
cessful in his portrait of the late Mr. 
Pitt It is an accurate likeness as could 
possibly be cbtained, and admirably ex- 
presses the lofty character of the original. 
The picture, which has been purchased 
by Mr. Angerstein, is a very fine com- 
position. 
John Harris, of Sweetings Alley, Royal | 
Exchange, proposes to publish by sub- 
scription, an engraving of the gallant 
action fought on the 1st of October, 
1807, off Barbadoes, by his Majesty’s 
Packet the Windsor Castle, with the 
French Schooner, Le Genie, from Gua- 
daloupe, in which the French Schooner 
had fifty-seven men killed and wounded, 
The size of the plate is twenty-three 
inches by sixteen, and will be engraved. 
in aqua-tinta by James Haraden, after a 
picture painted by Thomas Whitcombe, 
marine painter. Price of the print 
7s. 6d. proof, or in colours, 15s. Sub- 
scriptions are received by Messrs. Boy- 
dell and Co. Cheapside; Clay and Scri- 
ven, Ludgate-street; and Colnaghi and 
Co. Cockspur- street. : 
Random and Snaith of Hart-street, 
Bloomsbury, have just imported from 
Paris, copies of the celebrated collection 
of paintings by Raphael, Guido, Cor- 
iegio, Angelo, and other great masters of 
the Italian school, forming part of the 
paintings of the National Museum im 
the Louvre, at Paris, The above are 
elegantly printed, by Didot, in large folio, 
with a description, and historical and 
critieal explanation of each painting, 
at 26s. per number. ; 
The Empress Josephine is going to 
erect at a gallery at Malmaison, for the 
purpose of exhibiting all the works of 
art which she possesses. Among these 
are a beautiful collection of Etruscan 
vases, fine Greek armour, found at Pom~ 
peii, and a number of pictures by the 
first masters. 
Dubsury’s 
