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No. 188, Gadshill, from Shakespeare, 
Candle-light, “ Lend-you my Lenthorn.” 
J. Green. This picture ootained the se- 
cond premiuni Of sixty guineas, given by 
the British Institution, 1807 : but, like 
that preceding, 1t does not resemble'the 
master it is intended to accompany ; fur 
it was painted as a companion picture to 
A Candiclight, by Rubeus, in the pos- 
session of Mr, Duncombe. , 
No. 886, Fntertor of a Wood. with Ban- 
diiii, Miss C. Reinagle. This picture 
obtained the third premium, forty gui- 
neas, given by the British Institution, 
1807. As we before observed, it is in 
justice entitled to the first; it is the only 
pleture of the three that is what it pro- 
fesses to be, an wmitulion of the genius 
and manners of an old master. it is 
painted as a companion to Lord Grant- 
ham’s Mercury and Admetus, by Salva- 
tor Rosa. It is designed and executed 
with a boldness and vigour that 1s per- 
fectly astonishing. The wild and savage 
scenery is truly m the style of Salvator, 
and it has a grandeur and solidity of ef- 
fect that is hardly surpassed by any-thing 
in the gallery. 
No. 87, Interior of a Woodman’s Cot- 
tage. No. 105, Inierior of a Mill. © T. 
Burker. These pictures, though rather 
crude, have much nature. 
No. 120, The Interior of a Cottage. 
No. 124, Interior of Wooibedding Church. 
No. 205, Warwick, Twilight. No. 257, 
Morning. No. 262, Evening. No. 353, 
A Mill. S. W. Reynolds. TVhese six pro- 
ductions of Mr. Reynolds have very great 
merit The last, as well as No. 124, are 
fine imitations of Rembrandt. This 
practice of imitating the old masters is a 
tine mode of study for the childhood of 
painting; but the painter should not al- 
ways be in leading strings: Mr. Reynolds, 
we should think, is strong enough to go 
alone, | 
Mr. James Ward, A.R A. we are also 
sorry to see losing much valuable time in 
making a sort of imitations, of old pic- 
tures, which are for the most part hard 
and distorted, and very much deficient 
ip breadth of ight and shadow. He was 
frst deluded from his study of nature by 
a picture of Rubens; but he has now 
equally lost sight of both, which is the 
more to be regretted, as Ais own manner, 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
so 
[March !, 
which has its prototype in nature, is so 
greatly superiur. Who that has seen 
Ward’s cattle and horses but must la- 
ment such a misapplication of his ta- 
lents as he has exhibited, in what fe calls 
a Jiun sharpening his claws upon a cork- 
tree ? 
Mr. G. Arnold has five very beautiful 
delineations. Of these, No. 367, a View 
of Ambleside Mitl, by Moonlight, is m- 
deed a most exquisite picture. Fhe usual 
prescription for painting moonhght for 
halfa ceatury in England, was to stick a 
silver groat in a sheet of lead, and the 
work was compleat; from this dull, cold 
wuavarying manner, Mr, Arnold has very 
properly departed, and produced a pic- 
ture, that for richness and harmony of 
colourmg, fineness of design, and beauty 
of claro obscure, has certainly not been 
excelled in this country, 
There are three pictures from the ele- 
gant and classical pencil -of the late A>. 
Lreebairn, who, to the loss of the Arts, 
and of an amiable wife and children, was 
cut off in the prime of his hfe, and in 
the midst of his career to honour and re- 
ward. They are the latest productions 
of his pencil, and are marked with that - 
chaste and corrected taste which rejects 
the meretricious glare of gaudy and im- 
posing artifices, resting for fame on a no- 
bler basis, that of pure, unforced, una- 
dulterated nature. 2 
W. Owen, R.A. A Girl washing her 
Feet. This is a delightful picture, paint- 
ed in a most exquisite style,and designed 
with the closest atter.tion to truth and 
nature. ‘ 
J. J. Masguerier. No. 819. A Girl 
looking at herself in a Glass. This is a 
beautiful picture; the reflected light 
from the mirror upen the face and ho- 
som, is painted with a felicity rarely ate 
tained 
Among the encouragers of living me- 
rit, we are happy to see the names ef 
many of the nobility and gentry who 
have purchased pictures in the present 
exhibition. The most prominent are’ 
the Marguis of Stafford, Morquis of 
Blandford, Thomas Hope, Esq. Bishop of 
Durham, Captain Ager, Lord Kinnard, 
Earl of Carlisle, Sir John- Leicester, 
Alexander Davison, Esq. Earl of Egres 
mont, and very many others. °* 
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