The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-18 00:00:00

MR. HOLZdN MINTS NEW PICTURES.

When a painter has created such a sensation as
Ms Robson Mast did with his " Finding of the Review in
the Temple week Welt it is not too much to say was
is edema el the thee in anise:of the most isterestieg sad
sahib gob& d ort—he has made himself a moms formidable
rival them he is likely to onset saimpt kis fellows That 'ea a
work which surpassed in the mere hematite of the palette
meat, if sot all modem attempta ; it carried the best style of
mastic art to the highest point of dazing without ez-
media. the limas of jest imitation ; it betrayed as es-
thuslestle resemeh be the years of faithful study of tbe
Moly lard and the people ; sod Move all it breathed
an expremies al stet elevated, sympathetic feel*
which distimmishis the pictures al Raphael above
all. We Mell sot be thought to prenoesce
a bassi Wm, of perfection ape it, because than are
pimps whisk might be caned trivial in °comparison with
the high esiseepties of the priories' peep, but we thus
swat the morals of that peat aohismentat of the pasta
is tedstr that his lest work may be weighed is the same
basses ; otherwise we might have no immure to compare
it with.

"The After Glow in Egypt r is the titled the picture
by Yr. Haat 'chi** now exhibited at Mr. Tresses new
-gallery, arranged for the supreme purpose, is Hanover-street,
Regeert-stheth There is oleo another pieteue of much lees
impretenes, ispreseating the illurnisetior and the crowd
on Londonbridge as the night when the entry el the
Priam" of Widen wee celebrated, called tether too melo-
dramatically "The See Eine peaceful Triumph on
I.oadou•bridge, Yank 10,1863."
The ' after glow," es most readers of travel in the
fleet are swan, is the brilliant reflected light that springs
from the heated beady earth and the glowing sky, when
the the hes soak below the horizon. Fee • few minutes the
effect al this rich light, which seems to seine oat of the
vsrz imbetenee of *myth*, from the dull melted earth,
baked by the sun after the broad flood of the Nile has rub-
sided 1160 MI idle stream, to the bright stuffs of the gay
dresses of the people, is described as wonderfully beautiful
We may say that it is, for we have we it in this beau-
tiful picture of en Amebae girl shining in all the native
splendour of the Bast. She bears on bee heed • sheaf of earn
gleaned from the glittering hervest field loped, sad bee
just waded through the tanow dream, carrying in the hand
• green artier bottle of its water. She steads still for •
moment, perhaps to avoid treading on the pigeons that
clavier at bar fete sod flatter about her, one having mixed
upon the corn she armies. The ffejare is about the else of
life, and the attitude is precisely that se scanmealy seen in
the anneal statues of the Appease temples, the caryatides
of the Greeks, and many of the statues of India, in which
the weight of the body rests upon one leg and aide, the
other being inclined towards it. One arm is raised to the
burden of ern, the other hand supports the peen glazed
bottle on its palm, in the way common to airy water en
as to avoid heating it with the hand round the neck of the
vessel. At lust eight this has an awkward look, till we
understand that it repreemits • custom natural to the
people. The thee is „a dark indigo zondie, of goat's hair
potably, very light sad thin, falling in many folds about
the figure, which is an beautifully modelled in the paint-
ing. She is of the rich brown Coptic, type, with thick
lips and black hair, end • face of no beauty whatever,
although set off with large brume earriap end • neck-
ring like an theiect British torque, or an lodise
beagle. The feet are naked, and serve to show the
artist's thorough knowledge of his anatomy in the minute
and delicate modelling vieible in every line. In the hoe we
do sot perceive the some masterly painting so striking in
the heeds of the Jewish rabbi of the painter's great picture
shove referred to ; it is also inanimate and comparatively
feeble in the painting. The glow of colour over the figure
is of coarse the peat study is the picture, and this is won-
derfully given, though something may be due perhaps to
the artful mse•gemeall of the light in which the picture is
dhows, to the appropriate hanginp around, and the
darkened pimps through which the spectator is made to
pease, and have hie eye prepared before looking upon the
" after glow." The landscape of the acenfiad with •
camel and harvest men at work, and the golden
corn contrasted with the blue sky and the river„
is altogether an important feature in the pie-
tare, sad completely enable, one to imagine the
splendid effect which the artist her imitated m delightfully
with his vivid co/owing. What we feel 112 being shown •
picture in this ethessively imposing way, with every edjusot
that upholstery can give, is • sort of winked doubt lest our
eyes have been deceived, and an obstinate wiahlto see how
the picture would look on the walls of the Academy by the I
aide of other pictures. It must be confessed there is a
certain air of supereilionsnem which suggests itself, fairly or
not, when a *star of eminence persists in exhibiting
his works in • little temple of his own. Our faith
may be strong, thy it is so, that this picture
would have maintained the artist's ground to hie honour if it
had been seen in the Academy exhibition, bat we regret
it is net there, whatever may be the motives that have with-
held it. A. • work of art this picture does not come at all
within the same category as "The Finding of the Saviour,"
or "The Light of she World ;* it is a picture of ►autiful
detail sad colour, more like the painter's " Street Some in
Cairo," in which the appeal is only to the searas. To my
that it &appoints me the latest work of a man who has
painted one of the greatest 'abject pictures of the day is to
be candid ; at the same time it amply fulfils all that could
be expected from • master oolourist is the school of
suture.

The " Loudon Bridge" picture, which is a small work, has
some wonderful pussies of colour in the moonlit cloudy
sky. the lamps, and the river reflecting ere from its dark
face ; but the subject was altogether unsalable to the
*pier, and his art has not redeemed it from a certain
oorunionnem inseparable from all these paintings of great
populsr demonstrations, which Dever crave,' the least ade-
quate idea of the vastness and oceen•like movement of
a multitude of people in a great city all moved with one
accord.

Mr. Trews 's exhibition contains one picture by Mr. R. B.
MAliklol4l. "The List Day in the Old Home," • picture in
which astonishment is divided between the wonderielly
good painting and the very bad teats.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TER LANCABHIRI AND YORE-
snots RAILWAY Oatrairen 01•11 named Charlie
Kelley, a bricklayer. was Foaming over the Marsh-lase cron-
ies yesterday morning, when the 9.35 a.m. train from
Liverpool to Crosby came op at the time, and before
Kelley could pt clear of the lima he was knocked down and
literally cut to pieces. One of the porters of the Manb-lane
statics), in trying to prevent the deoeased from croesiog be-
fore the train had passed, was knocked down by one of the
buffers of the engine, but fortunately only sustained a
alight shock from falling.
RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLTA-
Narr.—Two new committees of the Commons are appointed
to commence their iotriries after the recipe, In additioo to
those that stand adjourned. The first, soosistiog of Mr.
Hassard (chairman). Elirl W. P. Gall nay, Mr Maio wiring,
Viscount Peveothy, ad Mr. S. Beaumont, will take into
000sideratton the fallowing proposed new litre for Woe.
oestetshire and Cloncestersbire, viz. Tewkesbury
sod Malcom Railway, Great Western Railway,
&Gotham sod Naikerarth Railway, Gloucester
sand Ledbury Railway, Worcester, Dean Forams,
and Monmouth, Worcester, Bromyard, and Leominster,
Wilts and Gloucesterehire. East Gloucestershire and
Bourton-on-the- Water Rai:ways. The last two bills will be
considered first. The bilis before the committee of the Chair.
mat of Ways and Means, Means. Used and Kinnaird,
are Belfast and Northers Gaieties Railway, Belfast, Bally.
mesa. and Ballyosstle, Rummell's Patent (improvemeuts
Poeumatic Raiteaysf sod Tahoe), Oswestry sod Newtown,
and other companies' arrangements. Workington Harbour,
Metropolitan and St. Jobo's-wood Railway, Mid Wales,
Railway. London Necropolis and National Mausoleum,
West Sumer Junction Railway, Severn Valley Railway,
Bristol and South Wales Unica, Trent, Aocbolme, soil
Grimsby. Committee 12, oo the Lancsabire railways. re-
sumes its sittings oa Thursday Dort. and the °then ea the
fallowing Monday and Thursday The select committee on
standing orders have decided that the promoters of the
Wein,lM Valley may introduce their additional provision
that the standing orders may he dispensed with is favour of
the Lytuingtos Harbour and Docks Bill, as well as in the
case of the bill for the Sheffield Waterworks in comiezion
with the late Bradfield inundation. It has been ordered
with reference to all private bills that standing order 118
be suspended. and that the time for depositing petitions
agaiint private bills, which would otherwise aspire darling
the adjournment of the hour, be szteoded to Thursday
next. The bills for the Stokes Bay Railway and Glasgow
City Tramwaya have been withdrawn. & committee of the
House of Lord., wending of Lords Walsiogham (chairman),
Suffield, Heytesbury, Charlamost, sad Chariton, is ap-
pointed to 000 sider the Chichester and Midhurst Railway,
Watford and Edgware, sad other railway bills.
The King of Prussia addressee his Generals in
Berlin one day, and hie words are In print to London the
next. The latest Improvements on =castle action have ren-
dered this and many other remits undeviating. For Instance,
Neninge Magnetic Bette.;to redwing grey hair to Ise
natural colour, and la eesiticating the *pay of tic del onna sad
nervous headache.—N. B. Counterfeits ere being made.-010,un,
IS, liasinghallntreet, Loadoa.—(Advertisisosst.)