1805.} Monthly Retrofpef of the Fine Arts.—To Correfpondents. 489 
Mr. Hoppner has fix portraits ; one of 
them, 
No. 78. A Portrait of Mafler Smith, 
reprefents a little boy fitting crofs leeged. 
It has ‘been engraved with the title of 
The Little Nabob. This title is appro- 
priate to the picture, which, like the other 
five by this artift, isin a good tafte, and 
extremely well painted. 
Of Mr. Weftall’s produ&ions we 
have had frequent occafion to fpeak, and 
generally to praife, as beaming with tafte 
and talent. In this exhibition he has 
feven : 
No. 72. The Expiation of Oreftes, 
is rich, and beautifully coloured. The 
fame praife is due to 
No. 220. An Old Man bleffing his Grandchild, 
and indeed to all the others. 
Sir Francis Bourgeois has eight pifiures, 
and we are glad to fee that he is very 
much improved, and has difcarded his 
foxy colouring. 
Tn No. 22, by Mr. A. W. Calcott, the 
compofition is fimple and natural ; the 
whole broad and well underftcod; and 
his other pictures and drawings have a 
degree of merit that infures him a high 
rank in the eftimation of all good judges. 
-.__Among eight admirable pictures by 
W. Owen, we particularly noticed 
No. 14. Sleeping Boy; 
and think, that there have been very few, 
if any, pictures exhibited fince the death of 
Sir Jofhua Reynolds, of equal merit with 
this very exquifite painting. 
647. Our Saviour Walking upon the Sea, 
Richter. 
This is a very refpectable piQure, and 
does great credit to the young artit who 
painted it. The ftory is well told, the 
drawing correct, and the colouring ap- 
propriate, 
We have heard artifts praifed, and that 
highly, for having fo happily imitated the 
manner of the great painter they chofe 
for their model, that the works of one 
H. 
could hardly be known from thofe of the 
other, Fo this {pecies of praife the por. 
traits of Mr. Raphael Smith has no pre- 
tenfions. They have not the ftudied airs 
or graces of any ancient or modern mat. 
ter, but in moft of them he very happily 
adopts much of the air and chara&ter of 
his original. 
The portrait of Dogtor Hemftead is 
whimfically charafteritic, and a ftrong re- 
femblance. In that of Mrs. Boifrazou, 
of Bath, we have a truly elegant repre. 
fentation of a beautiful woman. The 
portraits of Mr. Goffel’s children form a 
moft pleafing group, marked with tafte 
and truth; and in that of Dr, Babington, 
his character as a mineralogit is difplayed . 
by accompaniments exaétly apprepriate. 
We have feldom feen a more pleafing 
compofition than the portraits of Mr. 
and Mrs. Windus. In that of Dr. Mar- 
thal, of Lymington, the fituation is very 
properly marked by a view of the Needle 
Rocks in the diftance ; and amore forcible 
portrait in crayons than that of Mrs, Mar- 
fhall, we have never feen. 
Mils Emma Smith has only two minia- 
tures, and a piéture in oil of The Benevo- 
lent Princefs, an interefting tale from 
Madame de Genlis. They all of them 
difplay marks of improvement and of ge- 
nius. Among the other miniatures are 
many of a very refpectable defcription, 
which we have not room to enumerate in 
this retrofpect ; but Mr. Bone’s enamels 
muft not be pafled over; they are all of 
them in the firft ftyle of the art: that 
from Sir Jofhua’s Death of Dido has pere 
haps the pre-eminence. Itis fuperlatively 
fine, 
Among the drawings, there are fix by. 
T. S. Roberts, principally views in Ire- 
land, that have great merit. There being 
another exhibition (of drawings only) in 
Brook ftreet, has leflened the number at 
the Royal Academy. 
Sundry plans of focieties, &c. for the 
improvement of the arts are now in agitas 
tion, but not yet fufficiently mature to 
peblith any fpecific defeription. 
Pameartictr “. “oe off oc... 0. ao, 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The following pieces do not fuit our Mifcellany :—, B 
—Enfaaf—-C——Lines on (* Rea 
member Death”—=Friend to Inguiry—Auguftus Fletcher Roy—A. C. H.—G. K. F——u- 
riofus—Ode to Bellona—Georgos—Eflay on Literary Societies——Medicus—Verfes for the Li- 
terary Fund—Sonnet by C, R.—W. G.’s query—Ballad by 
J. B.—Account of Mr. Humber 
—Extraét from a fcarce Tranflation-—-Q. on Country Bank Notes—H. on LeechesmTour 
to the Lakes—-Petrarch to Laura’s Eyes, 
&c.—-Cafe of Scald Head—Specimen of Pariphrafe 
on Ifaiah and Poem—=Verfes on Spring—-Poem by S. W.—Innominata—Lines by M. V.— 
‘'B. B.—D. Oxon. 
Monruiy Maa, No. 129. 
3R REVIEW 
