The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-27 00:00:00

BLANDFORD INSTITUTION.

The most darer lecture as yet of this session was
delivered at the Townhall on II so lay evening, the 19th
Met., by the Rev. I'. Pearce, of ilorleti Viearaze, on
" Painting, the Universal L Inge tge, and a Review of
Art and Artists, Past and Present." Titers was a
tolerably 'temente' awl highly respectable audience, the
local repute of the lecturer having draan irmit the fire-
aide many of the inliabitaists whose douicatic habits
usu illy keep them at home 4111 such ileettatuits. The rev.
gehtlemau'a knowledge of his aultjett is not coufined to
the mere history of the art, hut he knows what it ia to
have au artist's enthusiasm in handling the pallet end
brands ; not only partly finished cooceptiosoi of laud-
love aud portrait hang around his studio, but bite of
carving, oddly turned shapes in wood, specimens of
tuoielling, and • multifarious aseurtatient of art designs
lie about in proverbus! contusion. Huniourous sketches
from his pen and pencil have found their way before
the rulthe in lops and corners of Clause pag a of our
national literature detlicatui to lively and useful satire,
keen wit, and friendly Iptiounr. Hitt inimitable (noel,
Richard Doyle, might have done the heivy omit. but
we lwlieve the donkey " wu't woishl'ut go," the rifiemaii
" wut coultrnt run," and the cockney eportsman who
" made the feather. fly," are charseteriatic of bits of
humour eketadied by the ovii and pencil of our lecturer
that have perhaps more r Genially provoked to laughter
the mirth-loving public Ham the Ill Orr
canoe characterizing the " big" pictnres of his " bigger"
artist friend. Ligit and sketchy as lien. been many of
the art productions of the rev. gentleman, the lecture
delivered by him sltowel Diet his appreciati 111 l of genius
in the higher walks of the art on which he discoursed
is of that character a hid, allow* him not only to form
correct concept' of the cosuperative merits of the
different *Dimas, but isatelligilply and forcibly to convey
his ideas to others. That lie has hen' much and long in
close association with artist life is true, but no suciel
contagion could have *Hosed him to catch that inspira-
tion +Well inure or lese breat'oce in all he stye about art
estwlleuce, and all lie lout tlone in relation to it.
Whether, however, his talent of just discrimination
owes its origin principally to intuitive genius or
acquired knowledge, certain it is that in Dm ing the
history of painting from its ligyptiais erotic to its insist
modern phase. he was, as a heturer, aide to convey to
a general public audience • more intelligible idea of
those great epochs of improvement in the art, anti the
causes that led to thetas, than the large majority of thum
who write and apeak oat tbe sialtjett.
'iii,' Isiaturnal 'steno', of his lecture embrace I the
'mown earliest period of the art of painting. extending
from the Egyptian age wh.-it painted portraits 011 NUM'S
syca 1111 l re or cedar were attsche.l to the necks of
mu 11111 l ies, to the moat modern scli.l of EletliPh Indllterg•
Ic reference to the Florentine school, lie observed:—
Now we reach the perfect develometent of painting in its
essential principles, now we reach draluatic comoosition,
now we realise individuality, ideal aelettiett of loran, light
and shade, wreath, naeses of light or lenitive colour. end
poetry with sincere awl heart-rending devotion.
Three men, who had they never touched a pencil or set
• pallet, would have been reusarkelde in their time
were Leota•rdo da Vinci, Micheal Angelo, Itaidisel,
l'orreggio. itrorgino, pm I Ttriait, in Italy, and Albert
Darer in Germany. Like Shakspeare or Homer they
belong to no particular age or country lint to all time
and to the world. His description of it tphael as a men
will lon a fair specimen of the rev. geittleman's happy
awl aenteiatione style of hitting off human character.
But 44 Raphael? How can we say enough of one who,
in the hietory of Italian arts, stanis alone like Slicks-
pure in the history of our literature. Hi. works have
Irren meals .1141101 d store of keits to the painter and
the poet. We timl traces of him 4-verywher: in arts.
He was in that rare mina' of greatness and versatility,
with all that ettald digiii y the man. He hail the 1111 l st
attractive manners, the t winning modesty. No
earthly renown was
imitated by merit. or °matron:6i by public opinion. His
abort life one inteasant etudy ; lie spent half of it in
ac 'wring pr.ctiesl knowledge mid manual desteritv,
Mammary before he could embwly the nice creetinus of
I hie itimisinetinn, It w..• .41 of him. sod only all toms
I but even all brutes hieed liii,, asol his works embody
that 'loannina SO retitled, esq.liede, so Winter, so
peerlem. After enumerating the 11•111tol iii the painters
of e raw heel during autlientie mead& oi this
art in Englaiel,he gave an itttereating sketch Hogarth,
toe satirist and painter. interaperaing his remark* on the
artist'. skill hy graphically relatinj many interest:lig and
tanking incidenta in his history„ J•nlote
We'd, Sir Thomas Lswrence, anti Tenter were then
paose.l ii. review, nod the tittle awl excellent e tof each
I artist luridly and forcibly " hit off." ii.. remarks
the development .4 art ant the pectiliarities of the Pre-
Raphaelite school we give in his own worsts, as the smart
style in which Ise exptestee his ideas, their practical
character, awl the beet evident* of the* dueatiof bin
jodgmesit will he found its the fullmving estriwt :
Care and tautly. These are the great desiderata not
only in an, however, lint in everything ; whatiatever
thy hewl flatlet!' to 41.1. do it with thy might. Ola
Maps, the arta inciter of all our beet young painters,
including the great painter Firth, made Isis young
pupae, and Firth gat the nuusher, draw a ro 1111 l I
plaister well and malting else for months ; a insaterly
handling of chalk awl pencil, &c., is indiepenseble to
every true artist; and this should be the °Neil of his
brat ambition. Then Pee what Sir Jueliut tells us of
the great masters. When they conceive a %talent tbey
first make a variety of sketches, then a tilliPaltsl drawing
of the whole. then a correct drawing of every part,
heath', hands, feet, and pisces of arapery ; then they
painted the picture and retouched it from the life. The
picturst Dins wrought with ouch 'nine al-pear like the
effect of eticlientinent, and as if moue mighty gelduma had
struck them off at a blow, lint sleeking, ss I have
been, of a ready hood (whet the French call a hand
untied) let nie add there is another thing of vast MI,-
.dienoe—a pme and correct outline. I leave acid Sir
Throuu Lewrence posseioted these exoellenciea in a mar-
vellous degree. You see it in the wanner attily as a
child, hot infinitely more in the matured studies of riper
years. The new, or Prmllaphaelite school, have neither
the a/neatness nor the grate; they are moiety penitent.
A few year,. Mute I saw in the ecademy a piettins con-
taining a swallow lamming a fly, the fly keel( being
painted with the greatest minutenesa ; and if deceiving
the eye were the only instincts of art these minute
panatela elioul.l succeed ; ksit the painter Aiwa., app. at
• to the mind rather than Die eye, siot wasting his time
on those smeller objects which divide the attention and
counteract the great principle of *lamming the heart.
MU paintings this past year of apple archer la full of
bloom re 11l i l olod one (minute ae they were) of lobster
salad, and the virgins in the foreground of one of them
were 'limply hideous. They might be true to tuatara,
hut nature ear at fault, and si there wait no übligetion
to paint portraits, why, what need to cover a land-
anat.. with nem dtrosittes. Let art strike the imagina-
tion, let us disguise the nieens or it is a w.tful, affront
work at hest. There can be on noltility in a picture
which appeals simply to the ready reckoutr, and
time and industry instead of inspiration. After passing
• high enlogium on the warm and disinterested frien.h.
ship exieting between artists, Ding extensive acquaint-
ance with general literature, mitt the noble tool on
envious emulation by which they are stirred, the rev,
gentleman's remarks tended to gave a practical styptic.
Don to the sulijeet. The following extract will allow
our renders to image for theineelves as ttt his guanine.
toms for giving pictoriel illustration., correct in outline
not detail, to enforce and intelligibly to explain prow.
tical letemiet on art: I would claim for art, them the
attention, the study, of all thankisig men ; men engaged
in erilumis professions or lousy tsale require sonic
eirconary occupation, music, painting, acillpture. sur WOll.l
carving, or wood nig:roving, or ; dl these are
boot ding pursuits ; hut Coll fileillg Illysylf to the art of
ilesign. I ,l,,,,mend that to the pstrenit, .if thui,ae cm
have any !toile for the pencil, •oil any notion of fonts or
eolour. The elementary part may etintil druggery, it
'tiny take time, but it is tic nowisce of art, the thief
groundwork of ultimete tureen (I mean °rivet draw-
Inge). It utav he attained heat by drawing first frum
the cork or wooden tumlel, or from the human fonn
front the Ida an r bust. TI,, materials may he elicit or
lead. Ma which ever vehicle is toted let the °ethos he
etruek clearly, legibly, though at brat with stiffouts.
When the first rudiments have been acquired you inay
go to nature mol use the cool grey elhalows, but
colour will distract the attene from form if font,
be not muttered first. Those who have umateeed these
difficulties may eatemporise, design, nr poeticise, but the

,
; ) divitle of art should ebcg to taste or lw bersccr.
redientons. ledasel. in I. ry illntsneen, it requites -.11
t.O attt 'abuts s of tlia 1:1, ''' 1.014 to e•rnpe. ri.l; ••shs. 1
~ tt..• roe! lend lover tii ka sausectstismi,) r 5.,., •.;,„.ta
s ,i,isteessing Wits el.suteil I, ii 'n the inenorelsh• rlllnge
1 I maidets at tic well. end I au'inire tied last ate c.d. or
..... mentos': • nest'ots. or liestr. siii.giviligs or tellat mit.
1. becense I discover so two li Lie.wlesig.• of the enlslisise
' art awl on mach loetlc feat% that I •sysylook the want
of ta.d.• ; low wit Isere c it,. the sells, tem 1,14 v befit'-
. reeve. hats 10. end at mu... ii •drikee the that is no type,
jit has no semblance to vslh.g • cwittship. I tee the living
: I •sio on in my own ti wi•la. U . rs• I c.• the dec. isi sl.
, I come ssoblerly rout 1; he corie r ill Iliene oarfolsis .1u ra
, Fun.l..t illes, thosugh of law j.•• src I len, a Isals't of giviog
soule1(111.1of *sari:lll7.l.llloz • iiroligh My ...ogu,r otherxise.
i I bare described the painter's ideal .1 the noble passion
• where it throbs in the bumpkin's 'seeing, its Twdity it i,,
anitiet !sing of this sort —to walk in the gleaming. hatobin.
limo. ht h hob, pace. I and over beck, and it, the twist
nn'titerest leg, yea, verde. the glooloiest roa.1„1111.1 filcher
never V. rsi,c the eyes foci, .•srtli Or utter noire than a
monotylio,le. mid this. wiinterretted, fur two
.or more
mortel hour., and 'lron the appeeranee of (snit tilyself)
. to snail. illy relax the hold they have loam eels other,
and, with a sheepish affectation of instill', retie.% put the
width of ti, toad between them. The girl, hi tin sus irt
leetslice. tin •suilted pettieuat. no hurtle shoes, no idol
hat, bederkeil with wild flowers or the purple hestlier,
hot the indigenous enn-boutirt. the dress of calinuoicho,
the feet encased in the I•cemo Mud, ke. Love
inistaig iss any rank it life is gc•larslly Unin4er-
eluting to the Colin I.l.nereer„ soil it 1,.•.14 all tlie sUluililue
gifts of au ndinieelde ertist to render such a subjert
tolerable or rather uiliiiirslds• oil Calleas; all very well
with the accessories of stage effect or the accenspaiii.
went of deism 1111 l sic, the ',eased in the hick ground
pioe in hetet, whilet a super 1111 l iserary musician at the
wing therunrscas the real ninsie, tho dialogue lacing
according to Lindley Murray awl prosincielism,
strictly eradicated oli I.otll sides, with the usual coin-
element of aspirates. Virtue rewarded being dressed
in • wilt of grey, with a belt of japanned leather and a
trig., lunette, whilst oppreesed intiocenee j..i oo a in a oas
de deux in cherry rilstems no I a clear hook muslin :
lint this is not truth which would Ise prosaic end unin-
teresting. failing to drew to 'hailing to else pit. to say
nothing of the lessee. There is ...opt, for great just:.
issent in the choice of subjects. end the selection may lie
as aisle as the treatm ist. Some Sllllielra yen cannot
paint ; •of our most gropleic awl poimi ,s ti.,,,ii„th
hash° 0000 re notion of what would plat Is painter Own •
liorwe ; I toi4lst am well name a 'swine. igdoilde aoo i 11l al.
lie loss hews known to suggest subjects fs•r their ron•
slderetion which would require R epeeels from vies
figure in the pis tiara to interpret Ilia place ill the now
position, am was the wise in the .4 I exploded careatures.
It is absolutely necessary from this ignorance its the
selection of subjects to produce a deseriptive c ot slogite
, Ibefore you enter any exhibition. Ajax ils tying tlo•
lightning may be Jesslote Isid•ling the suet stand still ;
Othello rermanting his adventuress may be all holies.
1 nnaWlialla displaello: bis waive, the charge of the light
brigade tin BA lie of Moeller. l'he collaterst effects of
lart 4.11 all amend Us were freely illiinlrate.l by relent', :
not only to the impniveinents that hese been noel° by :
' art .lenigiol in the forultS of articles of household luxury :
end utility, but in arintoriatie ultra li to nn-tic costume, .
Wee the lecturer in forcibly maw led hilt one oloserea•
tion hi elle tirwatimi .4 the sola-talidity of the oainter`s
lart as • " universal Lint:stage" to teach mod 'mortise,
1 that we ea 11111 l t do better then clese with the followM., !
1 entrset :•-ltecolleeting. however, the tow progress.. Iln. '
: its have made in former paw, and the mistaken views I
1 of art at the beginning even of this dresseit centery. I !
! do wonder at the went of teeth that "senior:ail the ,
1 certh in the reign of the first gentlemen its &mope. I :
1 believe Mr. B I knew Ito 1111 l rc .4 taste than a Fri e !
1 canuil al or • Chock-taw ftsul cut ; and, guile: furth r
Iback, I see the great judge of all lbw:. proper mot in
keels:nit making his Iww to use in a wig all I pigtail
1 with the features .4 Beau Nash. Cs•rtaissly, if we as,
1 to go on, we t 'dusty art, we Mast line it sou .
I ear. aims. an all epic, a. a Sermon. Every stroke .4 th.
I pencil way colivs•y a line of these:lit • it may tratiepori
1 Hs from C.sruhill to C sins, from Wrislierne ti Wars:, e .
1 f the parlour lire•side to the pes•ke of lie Andy*. awl
1 that will Ise a pleasure ; lest if it Isre.ks no the 15...
• neagess of ..wiety, if it clie. ks the vi,es and rorterts thin
1
errors of own, end holds she Mirror Up to nature tin we.
sense ascnrisig her of her 10W11 image) then, and stied
, is, the e.,,,.. th,. 1.14:u.ge of the unierflue in alut:skin:7, ay
' .1 of (Led and teaching, at any rate, the 1111 l rid hie
and the doctrine of ttttt twit lave. Bat the paititcr'•
i voue goon bather. I believe that the simnel picturei
lof other and fern days art • capiul.le of insoiring den's,-
!t. as tlesroughly se I believe in irsered ttttt sic. I
I believe that the fittest efforts of other ti tttt •••• which eye.
Cattily were sacred eithjects, not only could in then
newest form resoind the unlettered wassmit it It or
; Greece of the great enrileat iluity awl uldigetion of tile.
• but thst they were 1...inte.1 Im.rnllles to 1 • , I/II i glullr
1 him lessotss Ow illuminated inic.al gave (of(en, it in true.
' erroneous), but that was the feult of the painter-
i speaker, not the language. The child's ' I that its
1 old times never grew older by the use nf type, learnt
: frets Ode faissilier type jest as at the present time we
' twists the infant by pictured 'dory books the first and
, einiplest t ..t.e. Awl ea, n now, in co life, the
unlettered boor cidtivetes all a,, plaillVtlier Willi thili4.4
; ill general by the only type wlrch he Call read, awl
; iniprovee that Iszy mind of Isis by tilO very mei ns which
' first Sllggrelrli itself to the sin•srt elialslesii before the
time of AlirSilelll. I 11011114 rat the vulgar interjection.
! which at sistoplitzes the visual lorgell. has reference to
: this tttt iversel tosigee. end that :inch we* the exclania•
tign of the Anglo-Saxon as lie learnt trims the graphic
• ire museript the slid...rein-a. le twern Isis hut pool the
Roman capitol. I see to the MOON of children an
• inetinct to slim:wirer in symbols. sod stalls sts.l 1: ailing.
1 arsoutt•l town sulsurbs, end eves Ph.. slows of s se.. err out
, wany extempore essels for tin furtive sirreptitions chalk.
• I find in Illy parish school thou, tiie 1114alut 41.11.1 heron:
s dissatisfied, nub as the heels pendent from the font,
s weir beating the tato° of flasks. as susotlast by !wrens.
:. siou to drew pretueterows ds•lineations telliell are like-
, Iles.. of liotluill2 either is the IleaVen shore Or in the
1 earth honest:l, end Oust ill this they are iskin to the i.e
girt eaveges who traced on the aluoW the hard•held ships
' of Franklin and his 'wave companione. I see its pis here.
1 signs in • sithrtmitiel alinpe of every thing on earth.
j and know flint the painter Can form of Ili% Chesir
I colours, spill by hie eurpesseing gcssins, a forill for ever
s word. Thus it is I have ventured to call the "wide srt
lof painting a ' 'cr.! lanworge, *II Ito into...lnce the
1 grand could or brotherhood of t ainters to your notice-
, and coneisteretion.
'rite rev. g..t.e.,,0mn Wits sleeking for nearly two boors,
awl tl gls the lon •of his Vllier tlirosigliont the whole
! tilllll aas tub mid cleir, lie slid rot etpuir at the close
1 to feel rah 'tutted from the effort. There wee Illauillit of
ithe per ttttt nie cranalerising his delivery. awl the effect
! Prods, sal wan 110 t wily agreeehle lint highly eonduciur
ito eansestneas of thought awl feeling. The Bev.
' &heti Far subsrson presided, and tendered the usual
jCute of thanks.

The
of attraCti,,ll, SCAM* a ity 1CC53111.4 over but thst
Leture, drill, or tint:nal iiiii eut, gists' to its
lighted Atalanta! A 111141111 g and lively appe,r,n.:e.
On Monday e. ening the traiiii of men marching,
blended with stamped applause overhead, and.
whilst •• f WAS the word of e, ttttt nand lielow,
light awl she le were being described in softened
earoestneli Aimee. (treviiwitli far. al swigby Hitt.
te.i3 not tie iptly represented. There was one grati.,
f) log ci urn marking 1,,,th assenil.lies. rat; tyre
as e.tracMy pointed, in iNs.k shooting fashion. nn-
wards. when ooleredi to level his ri !e, as did the
lecturer upstairs .4...”ev11N ow...mud to hi, anilienee
reilimental exiietitette. There Call lie little fe.tr as to
lilagoo.l .11.11 J in the wilier or lower eters when
earmeolureathus chat-act, rises effort.

Ihimorr Cavil:AL.—All the shareholders are
rujoievi to Mom that thy directors of coonvol)
have withilrown the hill 8. r extension ant alteration
belorc the committee of the !louse of C • .114. an
come to an arningeutent with the Smith Wmtern
Company to leat.e the line 'runs Wienhorneto }Canal...rot
for live year S. T. rds,ilt or
elk arraii.gmt yit will
lie that. tin:exp.-nue of r. Bing utock mot working the
line will he ilefraye.l I.y VieS..-.ti. Western Cows
twiny, awl that oil ace Oust of the wiring of uxinniu
the shares or the lt •ruet Central will heeouie sooner
marketable. au tiiu,t will synaer liyar i arrest.
Young Mt.'s Chri.tials sauciation.—A
leetnrewas.leliverrst Toethlay ev • g lit thelk.
Nie'Nfillan, of Bonnie tttttt uth. to the members and
frienil,B iif the above ass ciatiwt, in the Too uis.ill, Oil
" The Eviilunow of lievoded IL 'igloo." Thu chair
waa omopieil by J. W. Martin. Eat.. Nlayor.
"

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NNW Barons' BHA- —The Ref. m Bill introduced
by Lord John Russel% will add 446 voters to tie
borough of Poole.
SUEMBOKNE—The following tenders were received
for the now class rooms at the Union Chapel. Sher.
horne ; —Oown. £173 lOs,; Stevens mail other:,
£164 ; Samll, £l5O ; Ouppy (amepted) £l4ll.
Mai:get and Pockliugton, acchitucts.
flirts t.'ioirs. —Our corps has been under active
drill by Sergeant sevend days anal nights
since our last. (hi M lay the corp named twelve
usenibere, out of hiai the officers will appoint sic
as set...mute The parties n • moil are Messrs.
%V. Wil ti, Rutter. C. Calder. Lou, Stewart, T.
(hake, John Didwouil, Albert Willunitt, 11. Upall,
John Bergman, Fear, and Spiller. Wu lerstand
that the Government have declined the services of
an honorary captain, anal that therefore Mr. Fab
wasser is the ismituanalant of the corps. Ou
nesday night thu ci anilant Appointed the
iamb missioned otficere as follows : Messrs.
Butter. anal Calder. sergeants ; Messrs. Stewart.
Lyon, and Spitler, corporals ; Messrs. (hake,
wood, and Upsall, !sum corporals.

8./ a NU 011 M.:1.1.711.—TUE PIIIIEuSED Coax Ex.
‘NtiE.—lt will be readlecualthatat diet/est meeting of
the Board of Health, a week since, a prq..ition was
isetv'e for the conversion of toe Townhall into a Corn
Exchange, and that the idea aim very f..vourahly
re..tived by a Board that Wan constituted of every one
of the members. The promeaser of the scheme Man
clesinnes of teletaining a vote in its favour immediate-Iv,
hut the Chairman suggested that it would behest not to
act hurriedly, and that the subject should Le con-
sidered awl !natured in the interval of ii short adjourn-
euent. This waa concurred in, and the meeting was
adjourned for a week, the shortness of the soljour aaaaa emit
lecing seecially with a vier, to olisettout the matter. Tlie
Board met again hod Tueglay, but after a good deal of
time hail been spent in discussing variolia linisatice3, the
mmeshera were men Vie point of separating without any
reference being made to the main Olivet of the meeting.
Ott enquiring, it was stated that in the interval the Ko-
ji,' 6.1 la,eit mentioned to the owner of the Townliall„
tel ite Itrol evinced a Ilisinclin.tion to permit the liar
masted conversion. One very essential point. however.
liml been left ntierged, and that wan that in converting
the hall into • Corn Exchange there was me intention to
deprive it of its public ch emetic;e hut that by the plan
oreemeatal the building would he equally available for
meeting*. balls, Ice., as for the tale of core on market
days. It was therefore suggested that thia ahoultt lie
urged on hr. Dial/ ley • deputation from the Boatel,
iuten.!ed a wcek Auer. Then came thee elieleulty
Best the ito,rd, IndeSS it iiiten,h4l to take a Irate, of
the faira and markets, could only auk for the Townleall
for other patties, who, it was put. might he wmwehhimig
to accept it. Then it wan objected that the Tonnleall
hadn't light enough —wasn't large enough ; and when it

was replied that it might he made as light PS Diitchtilter,
it was replied that the Dorchester Cone Exchange OSA
a fai!iire. Be (liming the grand jury rhamber 101 l the
same keel with the hall. shutting it oft with folding
hour. mu ion not re fire,l. unti l.y 1.1,11111 g a window or
ts o at the 1.. k if necessary. a haze, eery light, and
st excellent buildin; could be provided for all tie
S. / 1/f the torniliers, however,
hare taken up the project of n Market Company, with
a Cotis Exeliange near the police station.— Mr. Avery
thought the Boarii itself ought to take a leave of the
fairs hint mai lads (which we understand may be
.I:st,tisrcar.) Mr. Poelington said the
eoinvoiy would he only too ready to hand
over the lx.rgliti to the Hoard, if they would undertake
it ; i.t.t where Well OW
I. tigth, after • tedious Anil protracted discussion. some of
the members discovered that it was Atipper time, and
Dia Booni linike lip u. About deciding, either one way Or
the other, tin subject which they had almost specially
met to agree about."