1810.) 
Lonsdale; North west View from Ulles- 
weter-lane, Evening, J. M. W. Turner, 
R.A, is one of those enchanting scenes 
that England alone can boast, executed 
in a most transcendant style of effect : 
the, same character awaits Mr, Turners, 
other pieces. No. 115. The North View 
of the same, House; aud 158. Petworth, 
Sussex, the Seut of the Earl of Egremont ; 
Dewy Morning; which even, surpasses 
the others: the mist rising on the lawn in 
frént of the house, is among the happiest 
effects of Turners pencils” in fact, the 
uscoinmon brillianey of this charming 
picture praduces the same effect on the 
neighliouring pieces, as hanging them 
apainst the pier of a window through’ 
which the sup is shining. 102. The Iin- 
trance to Conway Custle, Sir G. Beaa- 
mont, H. is worthy of the pencil ofa 
professor. 127. A Landscape, in which 
as introduced the Slory of Diana and 
Act@on, A. W. Calicotr, R.A. is mag- 
nificent in Composition, forcible in exe- 
cution, but partakes too much of an af- 
fectation of being like some of the old 
masters rather than nature, which Mr.Call- 
‘eott must know, from his own foriner 
‘successes, to be the best guide. Under 
this head, although not in their proper 
oie must not be omitted the excellent 
Sea-pieces of Mr. R. B. Heppner; and 
‘oie by Pocock, ofa Wreck, No, 118. _ 
» The architectural department of this 
year is below mediocrity. Mr. Scane 
as some designs for a theatre, which are 
‘not much better than some he has been 
n the habit of despising; although they 
ssess much positive merit, they are 
t sifficiently gay and playful for thea- 
‘tral edifices, Mr. Soane has also some 
drawings of various parts of the Bank of 
England asexccuted, which are appro- 
"priate and classical as designs, but not so 
well drawn as lias been usual from his 
Office. 
» Mr. Gandy’s designs for the New As- 
sembly Room, Liverpool, are gay and 
splendid in selection, and of uncommon 
beauty in drawing. All the rest, with the 
Y exception of a Restoration of the Lem- 
ple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum, 
» by R: Smirke, jun. A. areof that com- 
-mon-place description that must be ex- 
pected to arise from the neglect which” 
this branch of the five avts is receiving, 
and has for along while received, from 
the Academy. If the Royal Academy 
_ will thus suffer the genius of their archi- 
tectural students to run riot, they must 
not complain of the degradation. of the 
_ national taste which has ensued. . 
_. The sculptures this year are not nu- 
4 merous, but excellent, laxman has 
> Montary Mac, No 200, 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. — Site 
some admirable monumental | designs 
and basso-rilievus.  Westmacott exhibits’ — 
some classical productions, Nollekens, 
as usual, shines in the departinent \«f' 
bustos; Bubb has a very good one in? 
marble of Lord Nelson; and Bacon; an 
elegant figure of the late Mr. Pitt; abd’ 
some good busts. The Honourable Mrs, ° 
Damer has an admirable head of a Muce, » 
in bronze. Ke is 
On the whole, judging from the present 
Exbibition, the progress of the Briush 
school may be thus estimated:—To be 
retrograde in grand historical and poeti- 
cal comiposition ; to be increasing in core 
rect drawing and chaste coloring; ‘emi- 
nent in portrait; and beyond competition 
in landscape. In sculpture, rather pretty 
than ¢rand; and in architecture; Abso- 
lutely fallen from the “ iwi estate” the 
other of the sister arts would warrant. 
The friends of brilliance talents and 
amiable manners and disposition, will la- 
ment to hear of the premature death of 
that able and eminent artist, Lewis Schi- 
avonetti: a pleurisy put an end to the days 
of this important man (to the arts) in the 
zenith of his: fame. His works are well - 
known, and will immortalize his name. 
His etchings for Blair’s Grave; his head 
of Blake, after Philips’s picture; are. 
wonders in the style he adopted: his 
Death of Tippoo Saib, and other farge 
plates, with an almost innumerable co}- 
lection of the most tasteful book-prints 
ever executed, are among the works of 
this lamented artist. He was employéd 
till just before his death, on an engraving 
from Stothard’s well-known picture of the 
Pilyrim’s Procession, from Chaucer, which | 
he has left unfinished. Some authentic 
particulars of his life, and a list of’ his 
principal works, shall be given in our 
“next Number. , 
The Lendon Architectural Society 
have just published another volume, a 
Selection from the Essays read before. 
them; containing, one on Taste, by Jos. 
Woods, jun.;. on Bridge-Building, by 
James Savage; and on Boundations, by 
James Elmes: also an Essay on the Do= — 
ric Order, with plates, by Edmund Aikin, 
They shall be noticed next month. 
. Now Tl. of © The Fine Arts of the Eng 
dish School,” is jusppublished, whieh shalt 
also weceive due attention at the’ same 
tine. ded RS Sao i hii 
Proposals have beén issued by Messrs. 
‘Boydell and Mr. Wilkie,’ and’ Rfr. Burs 
net, for publishing, by subscriptidp, an 
Engraving from the celebrated paititing 
(as ‘ & 
“ef the Blind ‘Fidler, ‘by “Wilkie: to be 
execnted in the line manger by Burnet.. 
Two highly-finished engravings of the « 
A i Juteriar- 
2. 
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