The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

(ratan KOTICI.)
Courtesy world have prompted VI to giro 'prece-
dence to the hate artists he hom *Ship is this ex-
bibiSiie. Om mearrynien are at Meese-
soli -elks make
is the sersogen. But I. moveled web wend
mese them thirteen hundred pies s% ewe m-
il me sue part in iktrassialsi vlia shed first
. the anise of way dries. S. midi dads to main-
...n oar repulses bt penmen beam es ft risp in ex-
planation of war levies se lag to avert to the
works of Messrs. Winterhalterretesbronwer, and
Kretzsehiner.
• first-named, it is true, may almost be rened4 es do-
among us, and enjoying exalted patomene may
supposed exempt from- the snowy dillellenes that
_is a stranger. Ills " Fleirinele," like all Ids works—
.ad, indeed, most of the weeks ef the seed or which he m,
beloars—is marked by good envies, siege enesperooet, II
and a rich colour, rather rielleimet is aftweed fredmess sad ,
dearness, Freakly spokes, eon is emmehlog Medal 191
-4 conventional about its Uses weds iamb uedlesesse, a.`
true, but sot the etherisl smilewasse of reel sod- se
r seam. His draperies, me peremeteuely Mid ; Is
theZii:
its arrangement is ' itif skid le iwtal _ll6
liiiiitaae
• meet et est . lisi
-Mr. Wieterhalter's see nether to u
elmirirwiedared at than li
ldr. Keptuabrouwer's paintings--be bas two la the meant is
exhibitive—weer to be the product* of equal learning in U.
the theory a Vt, with fewer traces of it to mar their Se
rheas inpremiso. His "Chao" has a fine, fresh, =tn. „
rel .11611 of eolooringt is from from the elaborate heaviness ;
of Mr. Winterhalifer; and pleases, by the vivacity of the se
hunters and their quarry; while the maresof shade are
Meal and skilfully intermingled. The " Ruin in this M.
Ardennes" is a mamterly composition, and is imbued with IL
fine eentimeat, though perhaps the tone of colouring has a t
little of that/4mM, we may call it, to which Mr. Winter- pal
halter habitually has recourse. 14
Dir. Kreftesalser's episode in the battle of Ferozeshah— Se
the death of the physics= of rrinceWaldemiu of Frauds,— SS.
is excellent in respect of seenposkies, evinces great know- Ir.,
ledge of the haw dove. sad is altogether the work of an z.
aeseeeplished aide hat the Wear is lurid mad hazy. The lo
sties is epees, bat set damp quite beelligible—as in se
the ere of the sere trooper on the speciater's right. a
When we aware these pictures with the works of Ili
ewe scoustrynes by which they are surrounded, we t
feel that the modern English school still maintains—not- le
withstanding the elaborate efforts of some expert-
mental theorists to retrograde—its pro-eminence among its N I
M
contemporaries for pure, natural, and pluming colour. It M.
is a fashion with some to undervalue this eicellenee ; but Le
bred up in the old faith of the best Netherlands and Italian ;
abode, we can see no excellence in muddy or base colour. se
On the other hand, it must be confused that even very in- es.
feriae coatinentsl artists evince a much truer sense of what h
unstitutes art than many of uur not least distinguished ilt-
English pointers. Mere transcripts of pleasing passages in liPt
nature are, after all, but useful studies in the en of exerts- u
*ion—gatherings of ideas to be turned to account by the se
artist. So long at the inventive faculty is not brought into
play, prompted by the instinctive sense of beauty, and re- Se
plated by those fundamental principles which are u 5
indispensable to the harmony of Cting, u the ob- ;
. . .

..osce of the laws of thoroUgh is to mu e, the
painter an seemly be called en artist. Were It for Is
no other reason than the chance it affords oar rising paint- N
ers of being made to feel their defieleogy in this respect,
the growing practice of admitting foreign artists to coign- "
Bute to the Academy's Ezhibitione would be inionte.
Mr. Frank Stone ham two very pleasing tittered of his IL
own peculiar style—" At the Opera," sad "A Country
Girl.' They have a fine firm colour, and sweet mad-
mint. It is in subjects like them—the still life of humanity ii
they may be called—that Mr. Stone is most Oceans. They •"1
mu the fruits of his own impulses ; in his attempts at 14
Oka tie genre, he appears rather to be trying to do what at
saute other has done before him than giving way to hie own N
'aspirations. His scene from " Cyoabeline "le what the 10
lawyers might call " • case in point." Domestic English
life in its tranquillity—not the world of poetry—ts the se
natural sphere of Mr. Stone ; but it is one in which he may
find a rich variety of subjects worthy of his powers.
Mr. Webster's pictures have always a charm about them, *
thou4h neither his more ambitions " School Play-ground" 1112,
nor his unassuming " A B C"
.. (which is better) are quite ;
equal to what he has exhibited la falser He, how- st.
ever, makes amends by his simply , graceful, and at
tender " Portraits of the lhiegliten of F. Yessusg, Eeq."
And, having is ear preview anise beta *impelled by • It.
masa of duty te 'peek in ingsepnanpiela than pleating
of Mr. Frith's "rape sad Lady Mary Wortley Meatague,"
a sense ofjustiee amp& se le neat te him he the per-
pose of awarding the peeks dee le ten mall pennies of
ladies which he exhibits. They are hes is easter, Ras in vet
sentinseat—unobtrusively . the portraits,
too, our attention has been fixed two Cook of mil
the Kent East indiaman, and "An ") by Mr.
Craig, and the portrait of a gesthans by Mr. Cribb.
These ate works of modest, unpreemediag, selidl-gifted
artists, who, Hallowed fair play by the " Immense "of the iyi
academy, us uses to work tUasaven, IMO keg, Into public
favour.
Mr. W. D. Lissedy Wails sodas like hie original
and poetical pineal hen a wild legml ef Bennis which
impressed as se deeply lestissr by lb sealealiti Moen so
and supernanteel shim Me his manly seat twe seneisits
pieces of colour—a "Cyan. sad Iphigeela," and " Diana's leM
NOIPhs-"
1 hen an • great number of pleasing landscapes, which E
our limits allow us to do little more than catalogue. Mr. 1:1
Hulme's view on the River Linsey, in North Wales, baa
a free, airy, fresh feeling about it. Mr. Marshall's " *
low Bann is North Wales "—painted, he tells as, ea the 15
spot—is a charming reminiscence of a Vela* object.
There is a Ins sun-lit, slumbrous haze In Mr. Leitch'a se
" Boat Unload in early morning." Mr. Geniare "Lest .s
Load "is mirthful and happy. as beano • honest lase. as
Mr. Oekes's "Ford on the Gond" is
with gnat breadth aid Wads Mho 1.=121121:14 ty
noellestly estaresell sod gistelegfy " VIII= heat se
wave." Ka Peers " View 11l the Toss "le gas of the et
nest whet wombs ef his pull. Mr. aft Rd moss et
the senbees ef the Williams ben sin las pia 04
Wilk bat ef their merits we had sec eggyesessity of 13.
Praise one lib* whoa sadder the adagios of the
animal lestentisia Mr. Blegases is she entitled to '•
peals.he TAM
and miasma cases is, es usual, be-
wildering will the saddled, ef weds it manias. Noe ie w.
then esythig ef swift is it, thank seek that is
ril.Mr Weise' lien seietaiss ids pawanbieses ;
Theahall bee nab a poet aineas is ihwasteriatie
saprenies. i esthetes Ile Ni Ada esker. Mr. Senn saki-
bits • sweetansetal bride (la site), and Mr. Chiba has a A
Stifiar ishrer—a ass kw, looking eat Iran a is
int/ ef paw
Nagler easeekands IMO SOW nemesst. la-
des& it ie imeassivable tint the Molar/ dash! seellses
to =pest sealetees es seasigs their verbs le the din dm.
gees Anted so then ; eves the makes ef bash is and s
than when they are peeked se singly and aedietleguieh-
al
is
ablyss Sin monis* its their eatae
yeasessalestes.3
to m
Bs seeks. beweese. to the glean
halts Wig gins of ssearisseA wan it testy
Os leek se the II
4e Ike a neasneatie Wadsworth byMr.Wainer,
"bilk is hantilsi is iheM sad still awe risk impends,. •
The foams ef the post is ehensiskals with Mei
Mess ef tree M *
raeslbs iseltion am ef its t• sad roney sliseselesi_dselgas mime eginsat
deep a and jut
seen et the sesame eenteissinaf his pushy.

HALT A VILLAGE DESTROYED By Fist.—
Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, a
meet disastrous Ire, whisk 101 l hmegnlated a village, took
plate at Masinja Cambridgmlies- The village madam (or
did esseist) elms leas elreet, matt half • mils in length.
The fee Webs set is a plretge et erne sad, and the wind
ISlnerie the Mos hem dot lOC the lames rapidly
,pee si tram ewe mg of the phse te the other, conottasing
aver Meg is lee mom Oar semi engine was brought to
play, ben. owing to the nest of water, was of little am.
The statiemassier of the Most Mad= (within a mils of
the villa.) bereaderiedy telipaglied for engines from
Marsh, end hi the ammo ef as he.. use arrived, and was
the 11111111111 sf win abet* half at the Allege. The he. is
lee hares. Tow of the sedismie sae ineneeL One or two
ffolde were lot sisitteeversd with lasembeli golds of every
description, sad, e Manes is a my era/ piano , they will
asset likely have Se rearm in this wilier habitaticias
en haat or the kinkiest of relief be is gene form afforded
them.
MOTRIB Paararr.—The Quart at Appeal of
Orleans was oaths Illth occupied with the appeal of the
Procureur of the Reptablie spinet the dickies of the Cor-
rectional Tribuwal of llomorestka, is the ems of a man
named Cheeses. Chessmen hod boss tried es two &wpm
—outrage egoista the eneholle mil&ti. esti the illegal poe-
tics ol Neefliehhe. The deferlest bed bees aisaitted es the
first char., merely stulleneed BM lbw on the
second. Against detriam, as belie hos Whet, the
Procures, of the Republic appealed. The Manias is this
case was another illustration of the met haft a the pea-
santry. I:between had persuaded litsedd egg he MB a
prophet, sad had formed a religion of his own banded on
his own construction of the Scriptures, and would to have
not less than 10,000 followers. In his religiose practices,
be repudiated a portion of the Christian creed, but adopted
others. In medicine, he used only olive all aid water,
over which he prayed to render them curative, and distri-
buted them to his patients, who were nearly 2001 n number
at the same time, without any charge. On the appeal, the
defendant pleaded his own cause, having • Bible in his
hand, from which he made quotations; and there was a
but of witnesses to declare that they ad bees cured of
grave maladies by his treatment. One woman, however,
said that the oil which he had given to her for • friction
did her no good, and she ate the remainder of it in her
salad. The case went off on technical grounds, by the
court declaring itself incompetent to entertain the appeal.