The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

gine arts.

PAINTING OP ST. JOHN, THE BAPTIST, PREACH-
ING IN THE WILDERNESS, BY SIGNOR HLBEILZETTEL.—
Signor Habersettel, though a member of the Imperial
Academy of St. Petersburg. and St. Luke, at Rome, and
honoured with the especial patronage of his Holiness Pope
.rwry, is a bold man to,send a large picture like this to
England, and look for admiration or money enough to pa
his expenses in a country in which Hilton starved, and
Exydon destroyed himself. Yet there is much to commend
in his picture. Whatever the hand has done the head has
done its part—for the whole of the composition is well con-
sidered, the colouring in parts good, and the pervading
sentiment solemn and suitable. It is perhaps unfair to test
• work of the nineteenth century by the standard of excel-
lence derived from the study of the works of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries ; we shall, therefore, try the picture
before us by what we have achieved in this country, and
here surely it will maintain its ground. The large picture
of Christ Healing the Sick, by Benjamin West, is certainly
inferior to it, and yet this is the picture which the directors
of the British Institution purchased at a cost of 3,000
guineas, and afterwards presented to our newly-firmed
National Gallery. Signor Habersettel is a native of Russia,
and has passed two and twenty years in the study of works
of art !• Italy. His picture is to be seen at No. 213,

Pami3CCers, Re.—Rev. W. C. Davie to be Head Master of the
Proprietary School, Great Yarmouth ; Rev. IL C. Arden to Instead,
P.C., Norfolk, 34L ; Rev. Y. Cunningham to an honorary Canonry in
Norwich Cathedral ; the Rev. C. B. Taylor to Otky R., near Wood-
Suffolk, 5701. ; Rev. P. Steer to Acton V., near Reattach,
3241. ; Rev. lipecombe to Cocldkld B. or., Raindrop V.,
Durham, 3541., with glebe-house ; Bev. H. P. Meteor to Prior'e
Lion Tiverton, Devon. Bev. J. E. Millard to be Had Meter of
alagdaMm Sch., Oxford; Rey. M. Pugh to he Head Water of Mapleton
Clem. Rek., Cheshire; Bev. W. Whitehead to Colyton Cur., Devon;
Bev. H. Burke, to the living of Mapheraerces, Ireland ; Rev. R. de la
OM. to Ballinuloe cur., dkome of Cork' Rev. Wm. Lloyd,
to Haaerdivy 8., Pembrokeshire, 2221.; Rev. C. Maude, to
Tcory P. C., Ireland ; Rev. W. Cadman, to Park Chapel, Chelsea'
Rev. L. B. Cogan, to Limpley Stoke, w. Wlneley P. C., Bradford,
wilts, 1471. ; Rev. H. Cottenll, to be pal of Brighton
College; Rev. 9. Doris, to Addington tr. Shit. CUT., Surrey; Be'
O. H. Hadfield, to be rind* of tbe Protestant Coils'', Malta; Me

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19$1. ; Be,. A. Howell, to Darlington P. C., Durbom, 2701.
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the Nam it Bt. Aaapb ; vacant by the dark at lea. John Jones.
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