The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-26 00:00:00

MR. FLATOWS OOLLSCIION OF FICTURRB.

Mr. Flatou mum determined to show as, in ed.

Hake to • very interesting gelled of pictures, the growing
importance of the coarinsrcial skis of art. We go to the
miebetion at the Royal Acedemy and see the kid of pic-
tures keine will paint for love ; we see in the very pirated
piled of Mr. Fktoa's whet is the direction of idiot when
way, rather than farm and love of the art, is the min-
swims. It would, however, be not quite jut either to
edict or dealer to overlook the fact that in dine actable
instasees the praetor ie encouraged by the liberality of his
mere, who pectoris to be neither • videmeo nor a
melba :air. ambitions of being esteemed a men of lasts, to
threw all his energies into &work which otherwise hureadd
waver have contemplated es a labour of love. Mr. Frith's
Lie= picture "The Derby Day" would seem
Dom Int to lad to ham been his owe idea, it
is so eminently mend to his vivid sense of ohassoter
aid hie nice and delicate peed ; but the " Railway Ste-
lice shows • sip more of meeting • demand for • popular
picture, which Y something nether foreign to the gourd
medic disposieha. The greet public are only toe happy to
we these remarkable pictures of their time, and still more to
be eeshid lie mew their counterfeit is copper-plate, bat
it mg be • medics whether the artist would ever have
found the love of his art sufficiently ardent to sustain him
through the seermom labour without the bright and
seam premises of • Mr. Plaion at him side. Whether favour-
able sr net to the Were* of set need not now he decided,
Ike ediemble festers is in the large sums of moray paid for
gloat of any mark purely for the sake of
Indies %Mt %ea by exhibition and the sale of copies
in the farm of empwrinip. The noble patrons of art
ad the ootteaciarsey are periled from their stool by the
dealer, who k really the repmeentatine of the greet picture-
/meg pubs. Thus we here the nbetential satithwithe of
nig the artist legWy paid, as be deserves to be. sad •
west mouth d profilable employment spread in may
Meador by the climeekatire of his work ; and mod of
this I attribatelik to the improved law regarding property
is art oopyright. Mr. Flatou dote not hesitate to pay Mr.
Fria for the copyright of the picture of the Marriage of the
Pekoe of Wake, which he is now engaged in painting for
the Queen, as mach than 5,0004, but we Had last wee
dewily B,oooi. worth of ettgraTinee of the picture have been
sabre:Abed for, and probably 'Teetotally sonatiehiag like ins
times that sum will be realised. Then Mr. Plaice
astexally hopes to obtain permission from the Quire
lereddlet the picture, and this would unquestionably be •
very espertent support to his spirited undertaking. The
listen Is said be he well thaws% in the artiet's temporary
ddb at Whist Or the, sad they be looked forward to as
ens of the grad efirsolone of next season.
Promises& easegth it,. Flatores pictures dank ace of
Mr. Frith's kid Lege worth, "The coming of Age." The
sallied of this esseediegly clever Fictive of English life sad
elesnoter is the dam time is well known from the amme-
ter; we have meek to ninth raw the sarprishigly flee
esedielee of the Peke" Plated isms tea yams ego. ad
the parted promenallie d its rich sad harisoniso colour.
By Mr. T. Fail. LILA., there is • large eat highly
balked pith% celled " Beading the Bible," • composites
whisk reemides somewhat that of his well-remembered
picture "Pica Dews sin Itured." The eldest boy reads
fres " kg led take %the pansy aid the father sad
thelher, both haleethists el the !wised Scotch type, ad
• the eldlizea nth grouped beim the hearth. At the copes
%ors little gist pews at the woad of the solemn words,
*ad cabs to her eseapanies brother to enter more quietly.
W. Muller is a laerkespe painter rarely better to be on
than ha • piston of "Poet Horgan, Wales," painted in
led. Warr. Onewisk, SA., then an several earlier works
wadi envoy • far better idea al his ability than thorn of
more motet rids. (21) " A Peep at Haddon," is • charm-
kg little lit, delicious in saturable's and warmth of teams
The pictures by Mr. F. B. Pickengill. LA., are carious
es swap% of that artist's singular halts for
why% study of vegetable life, with an utter re-
pedbilike a all eddy of the figure. A picture
by Mr. E. N. Wad. " Males& Woodville petting
silk the Dauphin," does ad appose to us so happy, either
la INlMMethe os plattegois to lave iodated the artist to
apelat his deism la Ink phi originally in 1842

A lay ianswear work is the esiketiss is „Brigham
issie," a slack fee a lags pietas by the late Yr. A. Solo.
as., end ems el is works. Two sea plasm by
.11e. Roam B.A.—" The Dopubszo,* two loses biddies
ilwaseß, sad the "Baltic desde"---show .11 the qualities
Oa have ripened sow la the dashed minter. Bat without
polaing out puladar *lam we owe esF *het hie.
Fb-
bla eshilifia wietains many way geed pictures by units
al area sad eras maples el thisabosaigh, Wilkie,
. Mead, ealltansyth, al the older British school,
- whisk allogetles leas up a vay farads collection.