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Making 39 exhibitors, members of - the 
academy, out of 459, the whole number ex- 
hibiting; and forming 149 articles, furnished 
by the Royal Academy, out of the whole 
number, 905, exhibited. 
‘Phis exhibition does not, from the 
paucity of historical pictures and othec 
works of that class of art which requires 
an exertion of the mental powers, rank ~ 
so high as some of preceding years, yet 
though it fails comparatively with past 
years, it has positively a considerable 
claim to a high degree of praise. The 
encouragement (as far as employment 
may be so called,) that is. now afforded 
to the artists of the British school, is 
flattering to their talents, and proves that 
a taste for the fine arts is very generally — 
diffusing itself-through the nation; which, 
if rightly directed, will prove of high ad- 
vantagy to British art, and stamp its cha- 
racter high in the temple of taste: but if 
suffered to run riot after effect and mar- 
ner, may probably sink it below tke 
level of the Dutch and Flemish ‘schools 
of fac-similists and facerpainters. _ 
The historical works demand the first at- 
tention; and the first which strikes atten-- 
tion, and which, from its immensity of, 
size, cannot beeasily pe .Tover, is 
3. Hercules, to. deliver — :eseus, assails and 
qvounds Pluto... H. i. ,R. A. 
‘This picture is cs aposed in the ugual 
nervous style of Fuseli, which seems. 
founded on an agcravation of the style of 
Michelangiolo. ~The drawing is vigorous 
and extravagant: Hercules is well poised, 
muscular, and boldly foreshortened; Pluto 
is terrific ; Proserpine too livid in color, 
and graceless in form: Nightis admirably 
jmagined, and Cerberus characteristic. 
The colouring may be suited to the scene; 
but the flesh cannot, by any licence of 
language, be called carnation, neither 
is it naturally fleshy. 
4, Andromache imploring Ulysses to spare the Life 
of ber Son. G. Dawe, A.R.A. 
This is among the best historical pic: 
Afonthly Retrospect of the Fine Artss 
- [June I, 
tures of the year: Andromache is kneel 
Ing at the teet of Ulysses, grasping his 
robe energetically with her right hand, ° 
while, her left arm encircles her beloved 
Astyanax, whom a soldier is _radely 
snatching from her protection: Ulysses 
sternly wraps himself in his robe with a 
denying aspect. The. scene is at the 
tomb of Hector; and the ruins of Troy 
are smoking in the distance: the unities 
are well preserved, the action is well 
told, and no needless accessories for the 
sake of what is termed grouping, disturb 
the simplicity of the story. The drawing 
is excellent, the expression of Ulysses 
and Andromache well imagined, and the 
whole of the picture carefully and well 
finished, 
51. Calypso, after the Departure of Ulyssese 
Telemachusy Book I. S. Woodforde, R. A. 
This has somewhat of the affectation 
of sunny effect, and faces in demi-tint, 
that marked Mr. Wocdford’s pictures of 
dast year. Calypso is gracefully imagined ; 
and the picture is, en the whole, an excel- 
lent one. 
92. Christ teacheth,to be humble. B, West, R.A. 
This is a variation of the president’s 
picture in the chapel of the Foundling 
Hospital, with fewer accessories. Mr. 
West’s well-deserved fame does not rest 
on this picture, which, notwithstanding 
its rapidity of execution (report says 15 
days) does not appear at all slight or 
sketchy. It is firmly, though thinly, — 
painted: Christ is dignified and mild; a 
carnations of the child, and female by its. 
side, are blandand natural. Thesweet- 
ness of the chiaroscuro, diffused over the 
picture by local colours and shades, is 
one of its greatest merits; and renders. 
‘tt as delightful to the eye as it is savisfac= 
tary to the mind, = « . 
114% Qitania, Puck, Gc.* H. Thomson, R. Ae 
Titania is asleep on a bank; her starry 
crown and sceptre, tipt with a butterfly, — * 
form a rich accessorial and characteristi¢ 
fore-cround. Puck is waggishly retiring. 
This is a fancy piece of that merit which 
deserves to be reckoned among the stock 
works of the British school. _ 
142. The Death of the Earl of Argyle. Fe ae 
Northcote, R. 4a a 
This truly *historical picture deserves 
the most serious attention from every 
admirer of the grand. and. sublime in 
history. | Argyle (according to the anec= 
dote related in Mr. Fox’s history of the 
early part of the reign of James the 
Second, page 218,) is calmly enjoying a 
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