604 
No. 763 is a basso-r shave, ‘iota i 4 
commemorate the 
M’Pherson, of Charles Town; Sou ith Ca- 
rolina, vid was: sMosyrecked jn ‘a storm 
of New York, on the 24th of Avgust 
1806. After: rescuing his daughter three 
tmes from the waves, he was washed 
overboard and disappeared. The life of 
Miss M’Pherson was afterwards _ pre- 
s rved byone of the passengers, DEVAERE, 
As faras concerns executia@n, this me- 
morial of an uncommon act of paternal | 
love and heroism is well executed; and 
but. the subject is to- 
the design good; 
tally unfit for sculpture. - The same out- 
line when’ sketched on paper, would 
doubtlessly fill up well in chiaro-scuro 
and keeping; or would be a good subject 
for a picture; but when perspective, 
clouds, dist nce, and the other necessary 
requisites for a picture, are cut in mar- 
Ble, and as a basso-rilievo they are either 
totally unmeaning in themselves, or inef= 
fective in their end. - These-are the fail- 
iigs of the present subject. Mr. Devaere 
has done justice to each individual part, 
bat the whole aims at mere than Seate 
ture can express. 
No. 759, by Theakston, a design for 
a public monument, is impressive and, 
wellimagined. Mr.-Garrard’s mode} for 
a statue of the late Mr. Pitt; in the 
master of arts gown, (No, 760}, made at 
the request of the Ca umbridge commitree, 
possesses an air of elevation, and dignity 
of mind; highly characteristic of the ora- 
torical powers of the departed statesmen 
itrepresents. Mr, Turnerelli’s busts are 
in a chaste and simple style, and are said 
to possess the additicnal recommendation 
of vood likenesses. His: figure of Vesta 
{No 777) tor a eandelabrum is, in design 
and execution, excellent and appropnate. 
The Hmits of this department will not 
ajlow of ail-to be mentioned that deserre 
praise, but no excuse could pailiate the 
omission of No. 817, by Flaxman, Resig- 
vation; a ‘statue a marble, a 1s 
said to be part of a groupe to the me-~ 
mory of the Baring ee, It makes the 
sind insensibly revert to Ancient Greece ; 
so much simple majestic beauty does it 
possess, so much Gpposite merit does it . 
exhibit to the corrupt Sos of Bernini’s 
schoo! of-modern sculpture, which, wil 
the days oi Fiaxman, pervaded more or 
ess every sculptor from Bernini to Rou- 
billac; that it may be-considered as the . 
periect seal and type of sculptural refor- 
mation, the complete emancipation of” 
genius- from the trainmels of ignorance - 
aud superstition. 
hs 
Af sap Retr rene se the Fine Arts, 
death: of General. 
Piety, cain’ unafiecied | 
[July 1, 
} piety, ‘pervade’ S ne whole figure ; it ap- 
pears a personification ofa pure chaste 
temale soul, just clothed 4 in angelic per> 
f€ction, beami ng “with resignation to its 
creator's fiat. “ Thy will be done.” ‘The 
execution 1530. ‘transce dunt, “2 a4 
«© So turn’d each leah so swelled with soften 
lng arty -: hey et 
ie the deluded eye the marble doubts? 
~? Thomson. « 
The : alto STS 3 the same. artist (Nos. 
824 and 834, ) pussess the same ¢haracter- 
istics of a ‘cultivated and vigorous mind 
as the preceaing. .. Mr, Westmacott’s 
boy in bronze, part of a groupe, at the 
base, to the statue executing of the late 
Duke of Bedford, and which is now 
erecting in Russel-square, shall be omit- 
ted tilli it joins its groupe, when its sculp- 
tural merit can be better canvassed. “As 
a bronze cast it appears perfect, and to 
have come from the mould with much 
SUCCESS, . bts Salts 
_ ARCHITRCTC RE. - ‘ 
Of the architectural department ‘lle. 
year, much cannot be said in praise. I¢» 
by no means keeps pace with painting er. 
sculpture; which may be attributed to. 
various causes. Patronage, enceurage= 
ment, a good school, are-among the many, 
desi iderata which this elder of the sister’ 
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. arts, lamentably feels. Thé worstand the, 
ho lectures for meaily the: 
no guide er Rae oe of. the: 
architectural ‘students 5. -a hmited. » 
(almost approaching. to a x probithionnsaly 
a good nay 3 no. models} no. INstracs | 
tions ; are-the bounties of a Royal Aca-. 
demy of Painting, Sculptare, and- Archi= 
tecture, towards one of” its professed. 
adopted children. The consequence is, 
darkest” room ; 
last ten years; 
that the introduction of novelties, how-:, . 
ever vague, inelegant, and bizarre, have> 
been soug iy for by the architectural stu; 
dents; and such is the character of this, » 
and the Jast six exhibitions, » with: onlya > 
few exceptions, . Heayiness, clumsiness, - 
the worst parts of the Romaa snelaeigeeh 
of Gredian elegance, were the chanae+*} 
teristics of British pn ae from Pain. - - 
and Gibbs, till the time of Chambers apd °. 
Sanit ; the former..of whom - pungsed 
the oie, and the latter restored and gaye. 
‘to his admiring COBB aCDs, the® purest | 
draughts from the stream of Grecian and ~ 
intellectual refinement in the art.» Alk. 
might then have been well, but for Ahey. 
unaccountable negligence, of the cuitiq& 
vation of the taste of the PES race of 
growing architects. ‘ Fes 
Med yat, Pe ulne, and Soane, nae 
‘ = well” 
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