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which gives every promife of the painter 
being defined to rank very high in his 
profeffion, and that in a very thort time. 
The picture 13 faid to have been painted 
for Lord Mansfield. 
153. Belinda. Vide Rape of the Lock. 
thart, R. A 
A. well imagined, and brilliant picture. 
182. Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhaufen. F.M. 
W Turner, R.A. 
The ‘tumult and grandeur of this. very 
wonderfui pi€iure cannot be defcribed, or 
communicated to thofe who have not a 
it; and to thofe who have feen it is 
{carcely necefiary. The whole is _fin- 
gularly awful, and eminently impreffive: 
the agitation and terror ef the people i in 
the foreground is finely conceived. 
Qt. ne Group. T. Lawrence, R. A. 
T. Ste- 
This picture is very finely painted, but 
the attempt to make it look like a mount- 
ed drawing, by the addition of ftone-co- 
loured fp andails, renders it heavy and un- 
interefting tor there is a greater {pread of 
light on the {pandall border than on the 
picture, and on this border the eye natu- 
rally repoies. 
@20. The Children in the Wood. W. Owen, 
' TUR Cae eleree 
The infantine fimplicity and innocence 
#f thefe lovely children has never been 
exceeded ; it is a moft fafcinatiag and im- 
preffive pifture. 
221. A Sleeping Nymph. F. Hoppuer, R. A, 
Mr. Hoppner ufually paints his back- 
grounds in a very fine ftyle; this is fo 
eminently rich and luxuriant, that it 
would, perhaps, have been an improve- 
ment to the pigture if the figure, both in 
form and colouring, had been fomewhat 
more luxuriantly charaGterized than it is. 
3608. Portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Thornton. 
F: R. Smith. 
The eafe and elegance which Mr. Smith 
generally unites with the very ftrong re- 
femblance which he ufually gives to his 
portraits, we have had frequent occafion 
toremaik, In this picture he has been 
fingularly fuccefsful. When we fay that 
itis in the heft ftyle of his crayons, it 1s 
hardly neceffary to add, that it is in the 
heft fiyle in which crayons can be painted, 
421. The burning of Troy. F. Wyatt. - 
‘The fatal day, th? appointed“hour is come, 
When wrathful Jove’ s irrevocable doom 
Transfers the T rojan ftate to Grecian hands: 
The’ fire confumes the town—+the foe com, 
ii mands. 
i\ 
Monthly Retrofped? of the Fine Arts. 
[June I, 
This is the only pi€ture with which tre 
new Piéhdent has this year furnifhed the 
Exhibition rooms, and it mu be admit- 
ted that the fubje& is tremendoufly fub= 
lime. But the above motto, annexed to 
it in the Catalogue, is rather unlucky, 
and has, we find, been miftaken: for 
fome of the painters, not very converfant 
with the heroes of Homer, have : fuppofed ~ 
good eafy men—that the word GRECIAN 
mutt allude to the five orders of architec- 
ture, and, confequently, .Grecian hands 
muft Hear ARCHITECTS; ergo, it follows 
as naturally as day to ‘nights that the 
painters, being the érue Trojans, ought 
not to be Lpewed out of their fituations 
by the above-nientioned Grecian hands — 
The inference which the painters draw 
from this is too obvious to mention. 
562. Ar bifforical Drawing of the sonnel or 
 Wolfold and Uila. G.H Harlow. 
’| Fair Ulla faw the awful fhade, 
Her heart ftruck at her fide, 
And buri—-low bow’d her Hidiet head, 
And down fhe funk and died ! 
Mickie. 
This pifiure has merit, bat Mr. Har- 
low may not know the origin of the poem 
from which he feleéted the fubjeét, being «: 
written which we believe was.as follows: 
One of the fineft pictures that the late Mr. 
Mortimer ever painted, entitled Yhe In- 
cantation (trom which Dixon engraved an 
admirable mezzotinto), was, feveral years 
ago, the property of Mr. John Ireland, 
author of ‘* Hogarth Illuftrated.2” At 
Mr. Ireland’s requeft, Mr. Mickle wrote, 
the heroic ballad of ‘* Wolfold and Ulla,” 
confi iting of about 460 lines, to illuftrate 
it. Inthe quotation from the above bal- 
lad, printed in the Exhibition Catalogue, 
the word burft is carelefsly printed bu/?, 
which renders the verfe nonfenfe. 
916. The Interior of Sir F. Leicefter?s Gallery 
of Pidiures by Britifh Artifis. F. Buckler. 
This is interefting, not only from the 
great taile with which it is executed, but 
from the pleafing idea which it exciies, 
of an Englifh gentleman daring to think 
for himfelf, and difdaining the interefted 
cant of old picture-vampers, &c. judge 
from his own eyes, and encouwage living 
genius in his own country. May this il- 
lufirious example be-followed by the opu- 
Ient nobility, &c. of this nation, wha 
now expend fuch immenfe fums in the 
purchafe of old pictures, which have fre- 
quently nothing to recommend them but 
tbe name of a great painter, fometimes 
given them by the importer 
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