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| Feb. 1, 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
The Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefieds 
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Stuart 
pinxit. C. Turner feulpfit. Mexzotinto 
HE full length portrait of this mot 
refpefiable nooleman, from which 
this is engraved, we never faw, but ap- 
prebend it to be painted by Gilbert Stu- 
art, the American, onecf the moit accu- 
rate portrait painters who ever lived in 
this corntry, and who now refides in the 
neighbourhood of Philadelphia. When 
we fpeak of him as the moft accurate 
painter, we mesn to fay, that, having a 
very correct eve, he gavethe human figuie 
exactly as he faw it, without any attempt 
to elevate or dignify the character; ard 
was fo exact in delineating his lineaments, 
that one may almoft fay of him, what 
Hogarth faid of another arti, ‘* that 
he never deviates inte grace.’ from all 
which we may fairly infer, that he was 
never a favourite portrait-painter with 
the ladies. He was, however, fo well 
grounded inh’s profeflion, that had not his 
eccentricities led him to quit this coun- 
try, he would have corrected his errors, 
and figured very high in his art. .That 
he wasted tafte, he has proved in this 
portrait; for he has taken the face in fuch 
a point of view, that the leading feature 
is moft prominent, and brings to one’s 
mind Slawkenbergtus, on his return from 
the promontery. It is a well engraved 
print. 
George Morlend Rebert Muller pinxit. W. 
Ward feu'pfit. Publifbed by F. Harris, Ger- 
rard-rect, Scho. 
A very capital mezzotinto, and a very 
good likenefs of this eccentric and unfor- 
tunate genius. 
Tie Nabob. Hoppner pinxit. W. Ward feulpfit. 
A pertrait of a child feated on a car- 
pet, ala Nabod, defigned with great {pi- 
rit, and engraved in mezzotinto, inavery 
good ftyle. The whole has an air of the 
Eaft, which is a circumftance not always 
atended to by gentlemen wno delineate 
Esftern charafters 5 but the folendor with 
which Mr. Hoppner endeavours to illumi- 
nate all his portraits, has, in fuch fub~° 
jets as this, a happy effect. 
The Right Hon. W Pitt. Edridge delineavit. 
A. Carcon feu/pfit. 
This is a very good portrait, and the 
face ftrongly refembles the original.— 
With reipect to the figure, by the role 
of. contraries, it brought to our recollec- 
tion a remark made by Hogaith, in his 
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Analyfis of Beauty ; where, after fome 
remarks on the action of the race-horfe, 
war-horfe, &c. he thus continues ;— 
‘* Yet, properly {peaking, no living trea- 
tures are capable of moving in {uch truly 
varied and graceful directions as the hu- 
man {pecies ; and it would be needlefs to 
-fay, how. much {uperior their forms-and 
textures are; and forely, -alfo, after what 
has been faid re!ating to figureand mation, 
it is plain and evident, that mature has 
thoughe fit to make beauty of proportion 
and beauty of movement neceflary to each 
other: {fo that the obfervation before 
made on animals will held-equally gcod 
with regard to man; 2. e. that he whois 
mot exquifitely weil proportioned is moft 
capable of exquifite movements, fuch as 
produce eafe and grace in deportment,”” 
&c. 
Such is the remark made by Hogarth ; 
and, admitting its truth, we muft nata- 
rally infer, from this portrait, that Mr. 
Pitt is not capable of thofe exquifite 
movements, which’ produce eafe and grace 
in deportment, for the figure is fingularly 
tiff, and all at right angles. It is en- 
graved in the chaik manner. | 
Mr. Ellifien in the charaG&er of Ofavian, in 
_ the Monntaincers. H. Singleton delineavit. 
WY. Boed fculpfit. Publifbed by Bond. 
Of the dramatis perfone wha figure 
away in the character of prine<s and po- 
tentates, the poet favs, ‘* they ftrut and 
fret their hour upon the ftage, and then 
are feen no meze!”? Such might be ther 
fate when Shakfpeare lived, but it is not 
fonow; for now the heroes of tne flage, 
after being delineated on the canvas.in 
flaming colours, attended by a brace of 
the Mufes, and twifted in all the attrudes 
that fancy ever conceived, are transferred 
to. the copper 3°** and thofe who would 
have made mouths at him while my father 
lived, new give ten, fifteen, or twenty 
pieces for His pigture in little!”  Thele 
firiking refembiances are, however, fcat- 
tered round. the ifland like the Sybil’s 
leaves, where they frequently flutter in 
the front of a magazine,’ fometimes find 
admiffion in a port-fulio among remark- 
able charafers, and occafionally glare 
and glitter ina cining-parlour, furround- 
ed bya gilded frame. By this boundlefs 
variety of fizes and prices, there is fome 
chance of pofterity ieeing a few {pecimens 
of what fort of ladicsand gentlemen were 
actors in the year 1805, &c. 
Pe —— Apett 
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