1805.] Monthly Retrolpel 
fpect to the portrait now before ws, it is 
one of the beft, if not the very beft, that 
Singleton has painted, and, being well en- 
graved in chalks, makes a fhowy hand- 
{ome print. 
Tbe Coronatiox Proceffion of Bonaparte, return= 
ing from the Church ef Notre Dame. Gil- 
Tay. 
. Among the great variety of excellent 
caricatures which have been publifhed by 
this very whimfical, and firft-rate artift, 
there has not been one which, in genius, 
point, and genuine wit, exceeds this pro- 
duétion. 
4 Portrait of Commodore Sir Nathaniel Dance, 
who, oi tbe 15th. of February, 1804, de- 
feated the French Squadron, in the Chinefe 
Sea, conimonded by Admiral Linois, is dedicat- 
ed tothe Right Hon. Earl Cawden, Secretary of 
tate, Knight of the Moft Noble Order of the 
rarter, and one.of the Lords of his Majefty’s 
Henourable Privy Council, by the Pub- 
difecr, R. Ackermann. Painted and engraved 
by F. Raphael Smith, Engraver to bis Royal 
Highnefs the Prince of Wales. 
Or Mr. Raphael Smi:h’s portraits we 
have frequently nad oceafien to fpeak, 
and, generally, in terms of high refpeét. 
When delineations, by either Mr. Smith 
or any other artift, are engraved by others, 
there ts a poffibility that the eegraver, 
however excellent, may miftake the painter, 
and, by this means, the copy ceafes to be 
the criterion by which we can judge of 
the original; but, in this cafe, -Mr. 
Smith is both painter and engraver, and 
the confequence has been,-that, from a 
very correct and f{pirited orginal, we have 
a highly fpirited copy, which, though cor- 
rect, ts not fervile; and though exaé in 
the lines, is mot {t#F in the effecét.— 
Through the window are reprefented the 
flips engaged in the memorable aStion 
wiich gave rife to the honours with which 
this gentleman has been fe properly dif- 
tinguifhed. The accompaniments of pa- 
per, port-folios, &e. are apprepriare ro 
the character and circumiances, and the 
likenefs is not a mere map of the face, 
but, in attitude, air, and character, zives 
a molt exaét idea of the gentleman whofe 
name it bears, We have been tcld that 
one or two other portraits of him have 
bren engraved, but by thofe who have 
feen him, and feen this, and know the 
original, this is fait to be infinively the 
moft ftriking refemblance. The mezzo- 
tinte is engraved in a very forcible ftyie. 
- Portraits of fuch charaéters as Sir Na- 
thaniel Dance we are always happy to fee ; 
they are an honour to the age aud coun- 
try, and-weareindticed to exclaim, inthe 
language of the poet— 
‘¢ Bleft be the pencil which from death czm 
fave 
The femblance of the virtuous, wife, and 
brave ; A 
That Youth and Emulation ftill may gaze 
On thofe infpiring forms of ancient days, 
And, from the fource of bright example bold, . 
Rival their worth, and be what they behold.”* 
of the Fine Arts. 
Mr. Ackermann does not confine him- 
felf to publifhing prints; we were pleated 
to fee, in a long and improved catalogue 
for this year, every requilite that can be 
wanted for drawing, colouring, &c. acc. 
incruding the mok elegant models tor ime 
imitation of the young practitioner. This 
hasleng been to be wifhed; for, not many 
years ago, the females who practied this 
fafcinating aw found that they had ‘great 
difficulty in procuring the necefiary mate- 
rials, properly prepared. This was not 
to be wondered at; for thofe who had, 
formerly, the dire&tion of female educa- 
tion, feemed to think that women would 
be fufficiently qualified for the domestic 
companions of man, and enabled to fulfill 
all the duties of wives and mothers, 
they were fufficiently verled in pickling, 
paftry, and all the abftrufe myttertes of 
culinary confequence, That thele quali- 
fications are ulerul, and, ina degree, ne- 
ceflary, mud be admitted; but to make 
them the (ele purfuits cf thofe whom Ged 
and nature have qualified for fo many fa- 
perior attainments, is barbarous and Go- 
thic. Their education ought to be cal- 
culated to improve the qualitices with 
which they were born. This would pre- 
vent modeity from dwindling into a vui- 
gar aukwardnefs; fimplicity from be- 
coming a prey to thofe who weult en{nare 
it, and a mind unemployed-in buticefs 
from being funk into ignorance. 
Drawing and painting is an art which 
affords an innocent and delightful folace 
to thofe that have a life of leifure; and 
to thofe who, ejiher fron: thew birtn or 
vnforefeen circumitances, are dzmed a 
comperent portion of the goods o: this 
world, it prefents a frong motive toalpire 
at excellence in the art, as they may be 
morally certain, that if they deluve en- 
couragement they will receive it, 
Among the novelties of this year, we 
were exiremely pleafed with a numrer of 
beautirul and appropriate vignettes, which 
Mr. Ackermann has had engraved, to 
commemerate the old Enetifh cultom of 
Valentines, oo Valentine's day. They 
are net, what we were iormcry eled to 
fees 
