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UNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS of Twegty Ai per Cent. have been paid Invariably at the head Office, in Itsgent-street. and at eQ the Country. Agencies. CAATOFA 410, FLAXMAN. wee, which, alternating between affeeatation and insipidity, had lasted, with little interruption, since the time of lienvenwolfni. The succeeding sculptors of the seventeenth century must be lookia: on as having debased, rather than contributed to the restoratiut, of art. E'veti liernini, whose reputation was so great in till time can be praised only for his •` Apollo and Daphne," and for the case and nature of his portraits. Ills larger works are rem: t for presuming airs, affected grace, and unmeaning flutter. The evil was felt, but the genius was wanting to re-establish a true style ; for the works which followed the Bernini school were with out character or decide°, and from their tameness were equally intolerable with the fantastic conceits and ezaggeratlons of liernini. 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Thonias Dale, M.A. Sold at 10s. 6d. Pub. at Ilis. . ' IMMANUEL, and gave a genial and bland diffusion t• the flame of emu lation. His works were the images of his mind, iu which deli cacy and c eutleneu, and an inspired sense of the beautiful, were the chkf characteristics. It has not been Canova. fate, more than that of any other genius, to soar in uncensured perfection. I believe the strongest objection to him is, that his idea of the graceful is not unmixed with .a theatrical air, and I remember being ins pressed with a reminiscence of the opera at the first sight of his " Thalia." But to criticise Canny, is nut within my commission, .and I should intauine that the taint I have alluded to cannot gene rally pervade his works, from the wide witchery which they have created in an age when taste in sculpture has been re-animated by accessory treasures from the antique. 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'OrNiltAL 'AisitAcE:patellir BRITISH CORN' (,winter' notnana taItaATAMAt . . 1 _ • For the Week ended Dec. 15, nude np from .t e Bryant' of the Inspeetbrt dAidtaillitt CtdetaniTTowdhl s Englindisia Wes. InspstlalGienstal Weekly- Average. • • Vi ! 5 % s it ' rti 41 .. 44: rat, PP•sfitegi, Bailey set 21 , . ye o pt. 3d. rat Ali.. . Aggregate Avgaie Shh Weeks which' goireenit Dint. Wheat 58s. 111. 1.0191 .at 74 * 1 *OW 54, • Barley 30a. 32. Ityste•Mli. 2J. Peas .17s. 121. • T FROM TIIE NEW IMONT:ILT ro a lAN LA Ity. It cannot be of deep consequence to the permanent fame of Fiaxman bow this itisktne may be received by contemporary criticism ; for the achievements on which his glory depends will outiait the dactoatkess of language, and stand but little in need of accessory celebrity fronshis pen as an author. At the same time, since he is made, by this posthumous publication, to step, as it were, from his pedestal of practical art into the literary world, in the character of a didactic artist, it is a duty which the joornalist owes to general curiosity, and to his respect for the cause of refined pursuits, not to pass over so interesting an event in silence. As' I felt this duty °o l die part of a periodical glow ; as I clkerisb, in common with a hip iortion of the world, a respect amounting to veneration for Flsxaan's memory ; as with very ordinartpte tensions to judgment I since matters, . I found the subject, akhougb it interested my zeal, fie* 'manure, (Masa to discuss; . and as lune! ,01.inels111, 4 1,1diltw en die Werrlii - ing appeared. 1 looked forwird.with ;madness f*.this periodical being without • , precursor in the ceremony of ushering In so great a name to the common hall of criticism. But the Edinburgh Reviewer hu taken the precedency that, was due to him in the public reception of Mr. Flaxman as an author ; and if he goes through the task with a little assumption of supe riority to the illustrious personage whom he introduces, he at least escapes all culpability for treating him with too much ceremony. With the Edinburgh Review, it would not be very natural that I should be a captious fault-finder. On the contrary, I make a sacrifice of personal predilections and pf grateful remembrances to a duty that seems to me paramort to all individual obligation, when I speak freely of a paper published under the auspices of an old and valued friend. Farther, I have to assure the reader, if should unintentionally offend him with the appearance of egotism in trequentiy recurring to the first person singular, that it merely because I like atraigbtforward expression of opinion, and have an aversion to the majestic plural. The use of we and us I leave to the Siamese youth and to regular reviewers. In singleness of speech, I muk then confess, that I dreaded the attempt of pont traying a sculptor's character, who raised England in the rank of accomplished nations, Dr. Johnson once said, quite in his own style, on being shown some fine statues, " Ay, Sir, sculpture is a great art ; for after aU, it is very difficult to make a stone look like a man." Very difficult indeed! that is to say, when you take in hand to represent all the symmetry and majesty that can be conceived in the human form. Nor is it much more easy, in written sentences cobipetently to mould and express theintar k and, character of fign.rate minds. I was prepared, therefore, to apolo gise for my inadeq•zte tribute to Flaxman's genius, .on the sincere plea that I was presuming only to leave a rude inscription of, my own thoughts, and trot to build a monument to his memory. We owe duties of allowance to superior as well as to inferior minds;'and it Occurred to me, that in judging of these Lectures, we are bound to guard ounelves,againet exaggerated expectations , which no great artist in teaching his art can fulfil. It is net merely that a book on sculpture can never move us like great achieve ments in sculpture itself, but that the ethereal casein.: of that skill by which the magician touched us ka his works being untransferabl• to words, he must be mainly employed in communicating the plainer rubs of his art, and in this didactic vocation we must not expect that he should wear the same mantle of inspiration as an 'author which invested him as an lutist. It is fearfully difficult to be eloquent in teaching . art. The floor of didactic language, con. structed for the tread of sober ideas, is perilously shaken by the tramp of inipawksiseVettskissicamas- Fossil e;paeienoed, fact. He is a gifted teacher, often unexceptionably eloquent; and sometimes his tortuous phrases, which are most offensive to the artless reader, are to the Artist the most expressive he could have used. But still his orgies in style are very startling. It is expressly because Fusell was a potent genius that I quote him as an instance of the difficulty of writing on high att. Flagman is all ,sobriety in style, and be is blamed for dryness and coldness. There is no such thing as pleasing every body, and particularly in bequests from great men : the imagina tion is apt to be a greedy legatee, unbounded in hope and querulous in expectation. But tinker, the didactic artist is no more infal lible than other men. The humblest journalist, like myself, may find some just occasions for questioning his speculations. Here, however, one need not be taxed with servility to a great name in saying, that a weighed and delicate manner of charging him with errors is due to the memory of a man not long ago deceased, whose death was pronounced, by no vulgar opinion, to he au irreparable ' loss to art, to England, and to Europe. Rut, if the Edinburgh Reviewer be right, all delicacy on this subject is superfluous; and it is troubling ourselves uselessly to in quire how a great artist may impress us leas vividly in his writings than in his works. On the contrary, we may be thankfully sur prised that we have no poorer a windfall than we have, in these relics.'frons the tree of Flaxman's genius. The characteristics of his mind, it appears. bribe last accounts from Modem Athens, were precision, elegance, and cool judgment. and a laudable attach ment to the beet; but he wanted richness, variety, and form What? is it want of force that is attributed to. the ssalptor of Michael subduing Satan.and to the illustrator of Homer, Asehylus. and Dante? Why, this sentence reverses Dr. Johnson's idea of the difficulty of Art : it is the Medusa antithesis. 0; sculpture, and turns a ntaii into .tone; at least, it ptoduces, for the nionamtt a petrifying sensation of surprise, la any one who has been accustemed to cherish the not very unpopular feeling respecting Flarnan— that he is Miltonic in his conception of the superhuman; teat be translates poetry front words into Or outline of forms ; and that be not only revived the porky acuipture,in England, but broke down the barriers which bad divided ft from the field of fancy.ead gave it freedom, robustness, and dominion. , The Edinburgh Reviewer apcillies precision to fijawan ; bid as he adds, that a certain stifnem and formality, a certain want of 'flexibility and power. ran through the whole of our artist's mind, .it is'evifleni that be means the attribute in a ,dwar,Osis andodigus-, raging sense. As such, Mr: tiaanyin's adipiters sstW /atom AR compliment upon his hands, whleA as mych roladirected, as II be bad lived in ancient,Atlagns or% • letter to Sschylus addressed ;to, the 'S precise author of the Furies." The reverential rstlnWe. tor Flaxman, on the faith of which I speak, is casein() Lo op selsool or COterie i'tbough acknowledged bythe.best judAles,„l‘ his. been. to by nu declaiming brea;h q( eulogy, b u t h as vow& the calm and btoad light of public opinion.. If I had distrusted yhe value attadird to Flasman by such men as Sir Tbousaci.awretice, aiidhlt. WestmAcett, to beigg.,avtayed..l4.Auglisis part i a lity. I hod au antldue to the suspicion bantering Flunsan's come u enebntrotuldatly extolled en the Coetineet•ap in Rm. land: At Vienna.' Berlin, and Munich, be is as highly apprecia l led as in Londe° ;. and, !ant sprry to say,„ln referepce to my nave fad:VLF ib ! s ß s pe t !rPrfMßV it!,91404P4 much.rafirtlitailleapprgl flated„,tinte in ... • ~. • • • l a tzugland, Flagman was the spasm. seulpt.uie gf Ida qv 4 i s , Europe, be bad no rival but Canova ? who was his jostior cosatenipo-, racy, and, I believe, eonfewed seam ablisatiette to him ! ~..To C. 4. nova, Italy owed her enzandpatten ftent a vitiated taste le eet:lp• That To Flaxman, England owes perhaps superior obligation, if it be considered that we had no middle age in modern art, and no such burst* of greatness as Italy had in the sculpture of Michael Angelo. Flaxman had but few native predecessor* in our island since the art-desolating Reformation. Banker, his immediate predecessor, had great merit . ; and his expression respecting Flaxman, which was repeated to me by one who heard it, may remind us of Dryden speaking of Milton—he said of Flaxman, " This little man cuts all out in Sculpture." Flaxman excelled not, like Canova, in finished execution, but in composition and design. He brought to the art expansion of fancy, elevation of thought, and a holy beauty of feeling. His female forms may want flubbed luxeriance, but they have a charm more expressive and Inexpreisible from the vests purity of his sentiment, than finish could have given them. From Penelope to the modern female be sweetens said sanctifies our ad miration of woman. His fondness for simplicity sought for that qu ility in every age and example, and he was not only a severe student of the antique, but was suspected of having imbibed from his ad miration of Donatella, and the Pisani, an overleaning to the exam ple of the half-gothic revivers of art. But still, this error was the excess of a bold and simple taste. In alto, mezzo, and basso relievo he stands pre-eminent since the revival of the arts. The man who says that his designs from poetry retain the inefficiency of words, understands neither wards nor form ; and the charge of his deficiency in richness, force, and variety, is an empty and ar rogant allegation. All this, I may be told, is mere asertion and reference to general opinion ; but on Mamma's character as a sculptor, what have we got from the " Edinburgh Review ?" no- butvaLssidous.assertionand keference, not. to general, not to eminent, but to unargoed, individual, anonymous, and smalltime'. tative opinion. Not that I refuse the character of ability to the writer of this article; bis ideas en the Elgin Marbles are well e:- pressed, though they but new mint the ore of opinions that have been already circulated. The Edinburgh review of Flaiman has some truth and some novelty ; but the truth is not new, and the novelty is not true. This volume of Lectures is prefaced by a biographical ac count of the Author, which disarms criticism, because it seems to be written by some extremely diffident person, too nearly re lated to the subject of the memoir to feel conscious of speaking of him as an impartial judge. Hut it is by no means a sufficient life of him. Let his friends come forward, with the good old &oddart at their head, and tell us all that can be recol lected of this extraordinary man, who, whilst a light of honour to his age, was personally the most simple, bumble, and un fawningly courteous of human beis.gt. The lovas of sculpture in this country should combine for three things—a monument to his memory-.-a series of large engravings to illustrate these lectures— and a full and interesting life of Flaxman. One of the objections which the Edinburgh Reviewer most vehe mently urges against theselectures, is the pernicious doctrine which they inculcate respecting the intportauce of a scientific knowledge of nsture to the artist, and particularly of anatomy. Mr. Flax man is directly charged by the Reviewer with so grossly exaggerating the benefit of anatomical knowledge, as virtualiy to exhort the sto deot to a slight observation of superfiaal nature. It is singular that this accusation should fall posthumously on the memory of a Professor who was himself a most sedulous observer of Nature.— Sketching figures and groups that struck him in his walks, was his favourite and constant amusement. Junior artists who consulted him, will all testify, that he nut only never utide:valved the um (tikes. of such observation, but positively recommended it. and set the example of copying wrote, by bring the first visitor who dccw from the living nimbi in the Academy with his own hand.— Had be anticipated such a charge, he would in ail probability bate put in a.ilistlaimer against it ; but it iv doubtful whether he ever intended these discourses for publication, and it is certain that he never ,prepared theru.for the press. If I should be told that this is no direct apology for his °skills& to record, in writing, so saki tary.aa advice as that of assiduously watching the outride of forms. ;have to reply. tbatho might very oaturally take for granted the studesat'a disposition to this amnia, mode of studying nature, and think It his duty tes impress it with less earnestness on his Mind eismeapplication &oat* drudgery, nod. to sem* minds, the repulsive anatomy. 3•• v• • • d :any such moaning, as to Inculcate a slight niletrWitius torah* sorface.of Albite, I disbelieve'; and that such an Iphsrtnoe OW be fairly straloetimut ef•bir words; I deny. From wbatAite Reviewee says, ememinild imagine that Mri Flaznian had givenm downright bisections swag student to shit bereyes upon vutererd eatnesioit (marker. ands, open them only to the diseektion el here. ikeit insise•lmpreealoo welskcls *l' conveyed by the Reviewer • • when be poisaammphaela oss•alie-woado 4 sligitear'befilte certain words of his own, whieithlro-Flonassiesehme eke: •`Onse Peoles vOr bantsukkaidi"sitat bramllghnithisreatliva ed•Phietwe Without bkisoposeibit io beitonie yeleternbrisf the suctiowneisdlag a Wight ob ,'I killeriptiblifity be owecieer MOM orrhetpsebeereere arras eelesaelei•tela, l'atitat ithePsimatif lore tP•he eseme44dletAlAeihrhdeet9'4.4 in 111-11eidlitg i bt se ray thet I. given the. Piggott tor he right,