1307.) 
MR. G. ARNALD. 
This very pleasing artist bas exhibited 
"eight pictures, painted in a style that is 
highly creditable to his taste and talents. 
Disdaining the meretricious glitter that 
wounds the eye in almost every direction, 
he gains his point by a chaste and judi- 
cious imitation of nature. No. 152, re- 
presenting Sailors disputing on naval 
Tactics, is not equal to the others. It 
does not seem to be a subject suited to 
his genius. . 
By Mr. I. R. Smrru, there are three 
drawings that display his usual! judge- 
ment and taste. No. 415, entitled 
The Consent, is a mast fascinating 
conmiposition. 
No. 446, representing un officer’s lady, 
amagining she has deserted the ship im 
which she expects the arrival. of her hts 
band, is conceived and delineated in 
style that renders it in eminent degree 
interesting, and mduces the-spectator to 
participate in the feelings displayed in 
the portrait. Miss Emma Smith has 
five most beautiful drawings in water- 
colours. ‘To pourtray whole-length fi- 
gures in such a manner as to give the 
air of the person, with a correct resem- 
blance of the features, demands more 
knowledge of the art, and more taste, 
than falls to the lot of many miniature 
painters, but that knowledge, and that 
taste, Miss Smith has displayed in such 
of these portraits as we have ever seen., 
Mr. I. Bucxier, who has soeminently 
distinguished himself by his publication 
of several of our cathedrals, has in this 
exhibition four very capital drawings, 
representing those of Litchfield, and of 
Ely, As we happen to have seen both 
these fine remains of ancient architec- 
ture, it excited some surprise to observe, 
that by some unaccountable blunder m 
the Catalogue, No. 689, which is a very 
accurate delineation of the cathedral at 
Ely; is denomiited Litchfield ; and No. 
412, which is a view of that at'Litchtield, 
3s baptized « View of Ely Cathedral. 
Such mistakes are unlucky, for they may 
sometimes lead-a spectator who recollects 
only one of these buildings, to suppose the - 
design is mcorrect. 
Among other rising artists of eminence 
in landscape, it would be unjust to omit 
Mr. W. Havetv: his two pictures have 
great merit. | 
To give a catalogue of pictures that 
_are injudiciously hung, might be deemed 
“ynvidious; we are conscious that it is 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
‘visitors, aud command attention. 
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not easy to allot to every picture its pro- 
per situation; bat surely such a lands- 
cape as Mr. Mauskirk’s, No. 478, repre- 
senting, A Wood Scene in Germany, 
mughi have been placed somewhat nearer 
the eye, oe 
The Society of Painters in Water-co- 
lours, now exhibit at the old Royal 
_Academy Roomsin Vall-mall, near Carle- 
ton House; and, as we are informed, 
have sold the principal part of their pic- 
tures. ‘To make a separate exhibition is 
avery good idea; for a sinall picture in 
water-colours, placed at the Royal 
Academy, next to au immensely large oil- 
picture, sometimes reminded the specta- 
tors of a giant and his dwarf. Such 
delineations as those of Mr. Havell glo- 
ver, Variey, and indeed many others, 
who have united their productions to 
ornament these rooms, willaiways attract 
We 
very muci regret that our room does not 
permit us to enter into a particular detail 
of their separate merits. 
Among the new Prints lately published 
are 
The Landing of the British Troops in. Exgypty 
8:b March, 1801. Basi 
The Battle of Alexandria, 21st Mirch 1801. 
P F.de Loutherbourg, R.A. pinxt. “4. Car- 
don sculpt and publisher. 
Two very spirited chalk engravings 
from pictures exhibited at the Royal 
Academy. 
A Meeting of Coznnoiseurs. 
- TT. Wianison | sculpt. 
Cribb, 258, Holborn. 
This whimsical composition represents 
Fobn Boydell: 
Published for R. 
_@ painter, making a delineation of the 
Apollo, frora a clumsy, heavy, ill-made 
Blackamoor, who is stripped as the mo- 
del, and stands grasping a hai-broum as 
a substitute for a bow. 
appears the most hungry figure of the 
party, and ‘the connoiscurs, who'are 
comparing the original with the copy, 
are variously marked; but the walls of 
a painter’s room should have had some 
sort of pictures. Hogarth would have 
introduced something allusive to the 
group beneath. : 
About this heathenish deity there have 
been various opinions: when Mr. West 
vas a student at Rome, some of his 
friends wished to see what eifect the first 
sight of the Apollo’would have on the 
young American, and he ou seeing it, 
instantly exclaimed—* how lke an Ame- 
rican Mohawk!” We are told that a 
e Trenca 
The artist, who 
