The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

WORKS OF THE LATE MR. F. LEE BRIDELL.

It is seldotu in these days of rapidly made repu-
tations that we have to notice a collection of pictures and
sketches exhibiting so much of rich imagination and power
of painting as those by a young painter, whose name is not
amongst the celebrities of English art, which are now to be
seen at the sale room of Yeats. Christie and Mansoo. The
sad thing is that thew works, so fresh and overflowing with
poetic feeling and love of natural beauty, are nearly
all to be sold for the benefit of his widow. The
principal pictures are landscapes of °onside-
raids size, and have most of them been ISIS
either at the Royal Academy or the British lustitute.
These, however, are shown in a separate MOM, and form in
fact a distinct collection, called by the proprietor, Mr.
Wolff, of Bemis Mount, Southampton, the Bridell Gallery.
There are 28 pictures in this oolleetioe, of which 1. "The
Temple of Venus," from the "Farris Queen," painted in
1858, is remarkable as a fine grandly-conceived huidscape
in the manner of Claude, or Turner when in his Claude ha-
moor. 2. "The Coliseum by moonlight," may be remain.
bared in the Ro;a1 Academy Exhibition 1860, anti
in the International Exhilatioe. It was most abo-
minably hung at the Academy, and in consequence
its real merits as a noble attempt to represent a scene
of stupendous ruin in the midst of the eternal and enduring
splendour of the skies were completely overlooked. 14.
" Etruscan Tombs et Civita Castellana " is a fine landscape,
particularly in the colouring, although by no means equal to
the painter's first study of this fine subject, which will not
swaps notice amongst his sketches. 16. "ruder the Pine
Trees," is a well painted picture, but rather wanting per-
haps in sunlight. It is hard to choose between the extremely
delicate colouring of the small sketches in bosh colour and
the bolder flights of the painter on the larger scale of the oil
pictures. The former are surpassingly beautiful in their fresh •
nese and purity of tint ; the latter are striking examples of
brilliant effects of sky and rich melting tones of colour
spread over the mountains and the rivers. 533. "Thunder-
atom, Lake Como, Evening.' is extremely grand and im-
posing as au example of the kind. 206. "Sunrise at
May ence," a most charming piece of colour. 209. "Junction
of the Moselle and Rhine, Sunrise," is another work ex-
quisite in the display of the finest appreciation of the glory
of the skies.

The studies of Turner drawings in the South Ken-
sington Museum see positively wonderful in their cont.
plate mastery of the greet painter's palette in this peculiar
style. There are also several admirable studied of the
old 'neaten, all of which show the enthusiastic
love for the art and the devoted study which
absorbed the painter throughout his brief career.
That we have lost a painter of very great promise must be
acknowledged and lamented when we, admire these beau-
tiful sketches. That the large finished pictures which Mr.
Bridell painted did not produce that impression of hiegreat
ability, which we get in looking at these studies, is only
another instance of the difficulty that all painters labour
under when they paint landscape away from nature. The
presence of the real beauty seems to electrify the touch and
throw a (ethos into the hand which no lookMg at studies
will ever inspire.
The sale of the artisti: efficts and pictures commences
to-day and will be cautioned on the following day, and the
opportunity is one that should not be missed.

MODERN Pierman.—The pictures nieutioned in
our hnpression of Monday for nile by auction by Mews.
Foster, at their gallery in Pail Mall, were sold yesterday
sod the day before. The price were very high ooneidaring
nearly all the pictures were small cabinet works. We sub-
join the sums realised for some of the lots :—Lot 47, View
in Surrey. by J. Linoe/I, 144 inches by 9 inches, TX
guineas. Lots 50 and 31. Retrievers and Dead Game, by
IL Amadei!, 19 inches by 13 inches, 139 guineas. Lot 54,
Off the Fresh Onset, by Stanfield, 14 inches by 9 inches,
140 guinea. Lots 53 and 36, the Hay Field and the Flock,
by David Con, 21 inches by 13 itches, 238 guineas. Lot
60, Juliet's Beverie,lby C. R. Leslie, 12 inch.. by 10 iodise.
:MO (aloes. Lot 68. Choice Scraps, by Fiero, 16 inches by
12 inches, Eki guineas. Lot 72, Rustic Courtship, by Hook,
29 inches by 20 inches, 3M guineas. Lot 73, the Sentinel,
the Hound, by Sir Edw. Linden; A.R.A., the other woe
by H. Bright, 23 each.. by 17 inches, 240 guinea. &wood
Day.—Lon 108 and 109. Dead Game, by W. Dneeld, 20
inches by 11 inches, 100 guineas. Lot 112, Bemuse of the
Temple at Palle at ENDS, by David Roberti, 24 Mahe by
15 inches. 165 guineas. Lot 136, the Bay of Baia, by
Stanfield. 21 inches by 15 inches, 240 guineas. Lot 141 and
142, " Trois up • Child " sod Rebewa, by Dobson, 12
inches by 9 inches, 191 guinea. Lot 111, Trout Stream
and Companion. by Oakes, 24 Melee by 19 inches, 130
guioess. Lot 153, A Semmer's Day, by Roes Bonham.,
136 inches by 10 inches, 280 guineas. Lot 154, "Showing
a Prof/ream," by J. C. Hanky, 360 guineas. Total of the
136 pictures, 6,4521.

FASHIONS FOR MARCH.

(From Lf Fe,lief.)

•
The fashionable world is getting perfectly tired
of plaids, which were so much the rage at the coinrosnoement
of the winter, and is returning to plain colours of soft shades.
Foulard again meet. with that favour which its beauty and
solidity of texture undoubtedly merit ; bat as there must be
always something new, it is said that the patterns this year
will be quite different to those of former semoss ; but
during the change of seasons plain foulard will be worn.
The dresses for paying visite are extremely elegant foal
now, satin and velvet being in greater favour than any other
material—we presume owing to the fact that no other ma
well be trimmed with fur. With velvet, ermine berth"
paeriess are worn, however. Of course, for young ladies
each a rich toilette is!out of the question ; for them taffeta'
is more suitable.

Yom dresses aunt very much seer. C "sills fringe is AM
very faabiossable. It is pat on round the skirt leaving rather
more than two inches at the bottom ; and the body is
trimmed with the same, put on in vest' fashion—for the
vote, real or imitated, retains its long-held sway. The
fringe is also placed round the top and bottom of the sleeves.
For the more dressy toilette., as well as for others,
sleeves are still made quite small.
Mantles, rotunda, or palsied., are made et the sue
material as the dress, or is bleak velvet. We menet but
I recommend the latter as • more becoming style ; Woad,
such extreme monotony as is produced when trio toilette is
all of the same colour fai's in elegance.
In-door vests are made sometimes of white eachemire,
trimmed with plaid fringe, which produces a very pretty
effect. With veins, wailitcoats made of the mos materiel,
or chemisettee of foulard, are wore. The latter is the most
elegant, it more suitably replaces the mu,lin or lace che-
wimetie wore in summer, but which is too thin for the
present meson ; and, indeed, whit* Indian foulard has •
great advantage in being becoming to all complexions, there
is ouch • brilliancy about it. For more simple, sad yet.
perhaps, not less pretty dietitian.", we teconimend owe-
flower blue, Efolferiso, or sky-blue fouler].
We may expect a change not °sly in materials but in the
shapes of the spring bounetn At present there is little or
DO change—mina or velvet for oroinary wear, crape or
tulle mixed with velvet for visiting. dress. The newest
bonnets are narrower than eves at the cheeks ; it is called
the diadem shape, and, in fact, when earned to the
extreme, forms little more than • diadem head-
dress in treat. Our leading modistes, however, will
not adopt as)thiag so Quin" sad maharanis& The new
violet, or, we should say, Ophelia, as that is its present
name. wiU he mesh were this spring ; it is • return to the
old violet, man redder than that of the two last years.
Amongst the ur west bonnet, was one made of crape
Ophelia, trimmed with feathers to match. and • whiter
aigrette. Another had • small bird placed on" bouillon of
tulle. And a third, of the same coloured crape, ma entirely
covered with a light black tulle, and trimmed with phases
of violet silk.

Drawn bonnet, are very much worn, end are made gene-
rally of craps or tulle mud silk. A very pretty and simple
bonnet was of green crape and silk, trimmed with black
velvet cod roes-buds.

capote of black Malice' lam, sod Empress fringe of
black beads at the front edge, falling over a b•willnuur of
white lifelines lace, trimmed on the left aide with a bouquet
of Provence roue, with black leaves ; over the top of the
curtain a scarf of tulle Mallets, with a borquet of Provence
rues, placed high up sod ..r clue to the crown. Black
ribbon ethane. with narrow awe of pork velvet.
Toqueta of velvet are very fashiosable ; they are worn
even to the ball•roo:n. One made of Mae velvet, trimmed
with a band of swan'sdowo, wu ineeediagly becoming.
Velvet headdresses are elm worn with two long barbels
of tulle falling over the shoulder.. Almost all the head-
dresses of the Empress this winter have bad this long
veil attached to them.

CITIHAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT. —.
THCIADAT, FEN 25. Adamisioes ea payment. al ;
ditto by mean tidies, 369 ; total. 760.