The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1859.

ART GOSSIP PROM BONI

The daetterunt bas an entertaining letter frame
Boos, bringing pleasant tidings from the stodiss. We read:
The season is over, crowds of English who have breathe
Paris fasidoes, faultless equipars, champ/pie suppers, and
Mon than English prices to the Eternal City—are trowel,
away to Civil& Vecchia, harthening the panting etasmers
with double their stated slumbers let us hops that one may
sot s ire starry night suddenly go straight to the bottom
with its fashionable freight I A quiet lover of the vestiges of
the great part may now venture a contemplation of seats
meeenteat of antiquity, ...thou& being run down by • dishing
esitiage lull of fair Bases facer surmounted by thous
Miens rotted hats, just now the English badge—
taming pretty young girls int, pert young hags,
and rendering more hopelessly Inane many • moon-
less whose Weston in such a sty as this is an un-
fathomable mystery. But quiet old Rome is won
IDs itielf—the butterflies have dated to the toils of another
wear—lei as dismiss them, and take • torn through the
dellos trod now from the host of Know-nothings, who,
eindisat to Murray, daily perform the prescribed Leek of
walking through.

" First, we will call upon Rudolph Lehmann, painter el
that graostal picture which Lamattine pronounced to be
wee poetical than the poem it illuilrated.
has crayon sketches of many celebritlea : ha doss
not flatter; but he WWII tha peevailing expression, and he
gives it with such tome that 100 reed the character of the
The portraits derive additional interest front the
fed that every one has the autograph of the original
appended to It. Pius the Ninth, followed by awe
very legible P.M. (Fondle: Maximus) irreeleibly
suggesting P.P.C.—Antonelli, dark, ?statute, and us.
Sinching, sapplyieg to the full the characteristics deficient
in the benevot foes of hie sovereign. There I. the teen
energetic fete of Lord Stretford do Redcliffe— Comet
Reyarval—Lamartlne, tedoed and imaginative—the soft
dreamy fate of Lowell the American Poet—Sir David
Brewster—Fredrika Bremor—Prince William of Prude-
-11. About, whose wrestle letters on the Italian Quaid=
have already found their way into Rome in en Italian dress.
There are forty others all more or se famous. Tie Prince
of Wales was eo Interested in this collection that when Ise
asked the artiet to dinner he also invited the partfoil.t.
Some admirable likenesses, alto in chalks, might have been
wen a few weeks ago at Mr. Field Tenoned's—they are tot
so delicate and ?eared as Mr. Martin's, but they resew
wonderful force and power.

"As we pees Olborm's studio, let us look in. The English
sculptor never grows older—there le the vigour of youth still
in all that the earns* and simple minded lover of art says
and dom. His beloved Venus is at last packed up and
sent to the owner, with the condition, that 'it shall
never be suet eithet dirty hole, the Royal Academy.'
Another espy, Jed fluiehed for the Martinis of Sligo,
is to made a year in the studio. A graceful nymph
bolding a child high in her arms fa now under the modeller's
hands; also an excellent lthenese of the Maharajah Dhulep
Singh. Oar young prince, whom kind and courteous arta
will long be remembered In Rome, one day mentioned to Mr.
Otheon that he wee going to be photographed. May I
express a with to your royal highness to hove a copy? asked
the sculptor. Is there one of you?' said the prince In reply
we will make an exchange ; I will Rive you my likeness
for one of Towed( ' The coil-Manin the various rooms
remind. one of a gallery of antiques, so truly elmeic are the,
barn-Vera which establish the artist's claim to be impeded
as one of the greatest since the Greek.. His pupil, Mimi
Hasson, the gined young American lady, is sow engaged
on a statue of Zeno la, which promises to be exceedingly
beautiful ; the captive queen is supposed to be in the
triumphal poweedon of her conqueror. MUG Hoenter's
kens/log little Puck parched on a mushroom, with a nettle
In one band mid a hosed in the other, is almost too well
komen to need daeoriptine. Tho Cenci, mournful and
despairing, gang one couch in utter prow ration the night be-
lege her exeteation, her rosary trailing on the meetly
hold by the listless band, le full of deep feeling. One won-
ders to see welt mature works from suob young k ground,
ends.
" An evil* of greet ability, though_. as vet not widely
known, le Gettey, • peon of By's. Ea to segued
at present upon a work which will secure hies renown shit
completed. He has chosen • sobject meow I believe, be-
fore attempted in 'risible, though Ito often painted—the
dealructioa of Pherath in the Red Sm. It is a bear-relief.
cm • very liege scale, 16 feet by 8, and the figures are
6 fret In height,—ia fact, acoordiog to historical evi-
dence, nearly the setae! height of the Eryptiens. There
is wooderfol life and demotic action in the figures and In the
rearing and plunging borne as the overwhelming water, rush
upon them. The predominant tones le the Mee. hie sans
extended towards heaven—the standard-bower hes fallen,
and the chariot e. grimly strives to rein in the terror-stricken
borate. The effret of bold relief is cleverly obtained in the
manner of the Greeks in their has-reliefs, by giving a fist
mitre surface and great depth and roundness to the minor
figures. The companion beorellef, for there will be a meow',
I. a continuation of the mibleet, the Triumphal Some of
Miriam and if Mortea,--ead the model is In progress, the
artist diligently studying the Jewish tome for the feces. He
la. soct,oied admirably in giving tbo yptfen peculleritles
in the face. of the Phareph, and great see conscientious thily
Is visible in all the adjuncts. The two bas-reliefs, when
cemplatell, axe to be sent to Scotland, and elected as • men-
enlmus in the private grounds of • family there, to the
memory of a much revered relative. We prognosticate
Walls fame to the artist of this work. Nor weed we over-
' I wik some sketches of linos end *ere, recoetly taken
from the lib by Mr. Oattey, who spent semi! three
months In the corona which contained the migleals.
The mddete, at pressed merely hastily takes in shale, are
wenderful; they are no mere conventional representations
▪ strength, m+ y, or ferocity, but living ormturee, either
sleeping la the parotid attitudes of kitten., the mended
paw, sheathd elawa, and telexed monks expressing the
trot perthet repine, or Infuriated at their honee being taken
teem lama erenehlag la ferocious rags, with startling Ilfe•
name& Tor truth and real eternal eltareeter they for see-
yew eves Casten's famous Bon; though bounty, it meet he
mamma, b mot bees sought soma* 111 Wean rialigr."

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