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He has likewife publifhed, price 7s. 
coloured, what muft at this period, he 
peculiarly interelting, viz. eight delinea- 
tions of the various ranks of the toldiers 
“an the army of Rule, which may be re- 
lied on as perfectly conreét: being from 
the drawings of an officer now with 
Beningfen’s army.They comprife The Rus- 
fian Yug ger, or Sharp -fhooter, Ruffian Cof- 
Jack, Ruffian Officer of Coffucks, Ruffian 
Calmuck, or Bajchir, Ruffian Hufjur, Rus- 
fian F ield Gr enadier, Rujfian Horfe Body- 
“guard. 
More Miferies of Human Life; il- 
lultrated in twelve plates, by T. Row- 
landfon, price 6s. coloured, are publithed 
Yor R. Ackermann, and marked with a 
jarge portion of broad humour ;. though 
we think, the bemg pizned up to a door - 
Found ihe neck ‘by yy an over-driven ox, 
is of too ferious a complexion to be 
elatted with being over perjuaded to filund 
‘up in a country dance, when you are con- 
cious of cutting an awkward jigure, &e. 
a continuation of the Mueries, on a 
Jarger fcale, price 2s. each, five of which 
Mr. Ackermann has already publithed, 
3s approaching towards a conclufion, and. 
if Mr. Rowlandfon marks the fucceeding 
prints with equal humour, ‘will conftitute 
a very ludicrous and whimfical fet of 
engravings. The fame publilher has alfo 
fix fmall coloured etchmgs, by the fame 
artift, reprefenting Plymouth Dock and 
Harbour, Yarmouth Roads, Perry’s Dock, 
&c.; in which the figares have infinite 
fpirit, and the views are correct and 
picturefque. 
The late Mr. Saurey Gilpm, who died 
at Brompton, on the 8th of March, aged 
73, was defervedly diitinguilhed as a 
painter of animals. Other artifts might 
give the anatomical figure with equal 
concnnel:. but no painter who ever 
came under our obfervation, gave the 
character of the animal with fo clefe 
a attention to the markings of na- 
ture. A pitture of the Houyhnms, from 
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, ftruck the late 
Mr. Mortimer fo forci bly, that when he 
faw it in the Exhibition room, he re- 
marked, that as, perhaps, no man except 
Swift coald have deferibed. horfes pof- 
fefing fuch faculties, it was certain that 
mo painter but Gilpin could have dif- 
played their charadters in their faces. 
There is a mezzotinto from this picture, 
as a companion print to the Fall of Phaé- 
ton. He painted Deer ina moft exqui- 
fite ftyle; thefe he fometimes introduced 
in Barret’s landfcapes, and with this 
addition, or that ef hories, their united 
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ALonihly Retrofpect of the Fine Arts. 
[May I > 
pictures are very valuable. Mr. Locke, 
of .Norbury Park, has feveral of them. 
He fometimes painted in conjunction 
with Hodges, which was the cafe in one 
of the pictures in the Shakefpeare Gal- 
lery, He many years fince etched eight 
plates. of horfes, with borders in imi- 
tation of mounted drawings, all: blood- 
horfes, and in a very {pirited ftyle. He 
had an order from his Majeity for-fix 
pictures, but the writer of this article 
does not know if they were ever finilhed 5 
for Mr. Gilpin did not finif his pictures 
in haile;’ but. was ‘indeed flow in his 
operations. 
The late John Opie, efq. R. A. was a 
native of Truvo, in Cornwall, where his 
father refided in an obfeure fituation. 
Some ftrange fiorles have been teld ‘of 
» Dr. Wolcor. finding his father and him 
guarrelling in a faw-pit, and being trem 
that mduced to notice the boy. Be 
that as it may, the Doétor was certainly 
his earlieft patron; for finding -he had a 
turn for painting, he employed him to 
paint his own portrait, and afterwards 
recommended him to paint many others 
at a very low price; which, however 
enabled the young artift to fave 30], 
which he brought up to Lendon’ when 
he came with the Dottor many years 
ago; aud, from the firong marks of mind 
which his pictures even “then difplayed, 
was foon noticed as a genius of the firft 
order. Orve of the pictures he exhibited, 
of a boy wathing his feet, fo much fir ache 
Mr. Wyat, of Milton-place, Egham, that 
he recommended him to twelve of-his 
friends, whofe portraits he painted; 
among them were, Lady Hoare, and 
R. Burrel, efq. He has been for many 
years confidered as a leading arti, and, 
if we reflect on the very ined fiyle- ae 
his portraits, was furely highly worthy 
of the charaéter he obtained. When 
elected leéturer at the Royal Inftitution, 
he read a fet of leétures that were de- 
fervedly much noticed, and, in his praifes 
of our own artifts, gave every poffiible enco- 
mium to Wilfon the landfeape-painter. 
When elected Profeflor of painting to 
the Royal Academy, he gave a feries of 
Leétures which will probably be pub- 
lithed. -The fubject of one of the latt, 
was colouring, which; though fubordinate 
to the higher ~ effentials of the art of paint= 
ing, he illuftrated in a moft impreflive 
and eloquent manner. 
His illnefs was fhort; he died and was 
interred in St. Paul’s Cathedral; on the 
20th of April. The procetiion at his 
funeral was numerous, being va 
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