The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY W/BNINO, MAY 10, 1868.

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owl $ piloshog thank 1•••••okao waxer is rahoirLlis
by Um approach of two &Um, who ham ems tkollikaa
Inquiringly from the riller clogs b 7, sad Mr, belt esedlls.
torUy, half pitifully, the stem but wing old ma sem re-
freshing fruit. ika the work of a youth of roveafase.la l•
eopeelally remarkable.

Mr. Feed, like Mr. Frank Stone, inclines rather more to
the sentimental than the emotional ; and when be sikeepte
the humorous, es in " Listeners ne'er haw gads o'
eels" (272), the delioacy and finish of his emenikm
is apt to hinder. as in the cam of Mr. Frith, the mallmtiea
of much rough vigour, breadth, or depth. This artist has
this year greatly improved in colour, but neither the Wad
ear the eye is carried far beneath the polish sad mend of
the walace, which with all the picture's other great sad
mark in this resembles mosaic, that however
minute sad elaborate the imitation, and however well Awed
sapsellelally, you cannot get through the °pique oosionds.
In het, in looking at this picture you want it "smudged"
parts. The conception is very near the poet's, and yet It
wants the impulaivenem and spontanedty of Beneath**.
balled, and lecke a little of Its carder inceogruity and /ap-
hasia &gib. The drollery of the story canasta is ea eid
lever brtagiar a sheep primal tea buxom lassie and ova,
bearing hat Eakin Asa of be, entiquated name, sad " tti
ghat" over a ierfsig 4001111 which ha bee met to pima the
way for his AO, with ea alsogesber Meat liver—e jelly,
gallysibesesil pewit Ismer. The eoesradiel
eswilereldewe epparatip imbed ap. wick the awathwol
sheeealtelatle cad saved. The ail Imo. Air

deer, with his benhitten nose, bet otherwise
pale end spectral, strode oholdng with
legs and below as he mama the cheap shawl be hoe bought
es • reser into his " world to. wide mincer His nark-
fag areal_ 1 shier to peinfal to raise a mils, bat the
" else," beephing, cruel err of his woe, and her lover emir
inert bar wit/isnot agrantleg femilierity—cedwho,bing
at • jovial dispesifice, protebly publish nobles errs
his *wen connutione—are very humorous. Whet • ins
rear, ateo, is the dater, who is evidently levsnring may
nibble with the greatest rehab ; and even the eil aionsr's
bee is puckered with a smile while she doer greater
sad more becoming gravity. The ladylike "Ayrshire
Lars" (498), seated barefooted by • burn, and the equally
bonnie but over-reined lassie returning her market, and
receiving " The Webers Home" (461) hum bar piping
blackbird and little frisking terrier gnawing at the triage if
bar plaid, art two of the figures, conventional in character
bat axquiree in exemetion, by whirl the artist is so well
known through lagraviais. The " sunbeam " however
an Mr. Pad's mereripiece—full of poetry and beauty.
Mr. Webster is se charmingly natural, unaffected, and
truthful in expression la all his delightful contributions as
ever. His execution is very choice and finished, but in
colour he is bruming rather too negative, and too'clayey in
tans. What in scenpasitka and the delicately discriminated
and varied ezreesiss ef the different members of a family
or, however, seiner this artist's "Sunday Evening" (119)?
—from the gravity of the honest oottagar about:to read the
evening lassos ia the old family bible to the bright, Laughing
face of his refractory youngest daughter, who continues,
notwithstanding her mother's look of serious admonition,
her little prattle, to the ill-concealed amusement of her grand-
father and mother—for the red are always most tolerant of
the young. How touching elm is that old couple, similarly
engaged, but by at otherwise solitary fireside, in 334. And
who would not sympathise with the delight of that mar
and that humble haymaker, with his child " pick-a-hook,"
in " Bummer " (60) ? In the second picture we have wad
the execution is unreally vigorous ; but for the seem,
the colour in the bet is certainly too cold for out-
door effect. Mr. CI. Smith is • promising young
painter at simil rly arra eublects, though he atelnee
his attention &idly to children, and in his gay and cheerful
colour more nearly trembles Muiready. " Feeding the
Chicks" (30) is • favourable specimen of his ability, though
in " Thel Valentine" (991) and " The Grist Pips" (680)
be has bream the ranks of the " pinafore pakten," to
rippreennt Wickes with no is,, worse As a painter of
staffer gabber with Mr. Webster, we are happy to welcome
a sew name—that of Mr. E. Davis—whose works, Nos. 117
and 266, we trust are earnest, of good things to come.
"The Early Days of Timothy" (I32)—the Jewish mother
of the subsequently youthful friend of St. Paul and his
grandmother Lois instructing him from the Hebrew rolls of
scripture, and for his knowledge in which the Apostle bore
testimony-1s a sweet picture by Mr. Le Jenne, though a
little rusty in colour. Mr. Dobson's contributions are of less
importance than usual ; there is, however, no child's head
in the Exhibition more powerfully modelled than that of—
as the ladles say—. The drr little thing" in No. 69, with
its doll so Wily parched on its Imes, and so entirely absorbed
in its " Fairy Tales." The tone of the picture also is very
briar end deep, with nevertheless, perhaps, • little of the
ponderer died which copies from old paintings generally
roar

Kr. Wallis doss not approach .o near as last year to his
eelrsmembered "Death of Chatterton," though he her
piled whet he may consider Its companion and contrast.
The *a stonebreaker in No. 662 may be taken as intended
(as Indeed is evident, from the eloquent pmage quoted in
the catalogue from Carlyle. " Sartor Remitus") to Illustrate
the consequences of unfavourable external conditions of
society, as the former was to show the result of in-regulated
internal constitution of mind. There we had the proud
genies, preying upon himself ; her, we have the modal
parent, victim of social mistaken Ina kind of " Autumn
Leaves" twilight, though leas translucent and in a colder
key, we dimly distinguished the dead stonehmaker, with
his pauper smock-frock, corduroys, and highlows,
partly lying an the heap of hard granite he ham
been tolling at through the cloudless, sultry, day with
Inanficiant nourishment; and partly toppling forward among
the brambles whisk hue the road-aide. Poor wretch, an his
peak In life the beta beset with thorns I But he is at rest
at lest ; no cm waits for or will seek him ;no the will
Wes Ids. His pals, peretherthdrawa thee mad low brow,
ten of stolid *mom and algal misery. He has wow
bus pear or beerebreaker ; or these to London to be re-
amed into a ewfailke sad pickpocket, sad he is still more
brimless and neetathislaing sow. He is very dead. A
kw, writhing, sisal bee mounted his foot, and lifts its Doer
sowstlag death, rid looks inquiringly with Its tat-Übe eyes.,
He km been ems time dead. The chill night dew has
settled thick upon him without evaporation. The tithe
Snit of the picture is the exaggeration of this effect of dew.
It gives, together with the too positive hue of the pale
purple distance, a thee, mouthy, spasanutoe to the whole
picture, which though net same reyedelve then the subject, '
yet moot be edeellied as saanth If this picture is not to
be associated with sasese, evidently this setist's " Sir
Walter Raleigh la the Tower" (369) Is cm of a swim
of pictorial lasidwals, commemorative of alma*
reas—of which we bath already bad band, laseltipts
Sbaltspare, sod Chellierioa. Raleigh is a filthy saltiese
for this itare-wenthip. We have taw such brilliant, pia-
Issespe dress In ear Wray. Mr. Wallis has seariudy
tee Yse *dm petossely, easorling to the portrait by
Zesithear, kid, at Illismehmemr, sr that at Greenwich. Ea
appose semerhei lee eld for the dale give in the cataloger
" ekes A.D., HIV Ha was set Imprimasd ith Dec. 1104,
what be we vs. His sitheina Welter, *lris itheedased,whe
was that 11 yews of age, is dee sepseesseth rather lea
alai. This is, lereeths, at Yei semegassee piseseithy
the With of the *awe (be which we snow ewe is
witherity)—cf the thoughtthi boy blowing babbles, .4 the
What of the " Meer, of the Wald" regard* pensively
them sir, emblem of repaistioa end etharesst types sl Gil
Iki.g►-i ray logiodeva. It way be elenbiered a cumber
OM the salts es a portrait et Lady Raleigh is
“ Law thesier is athede" The piles of old folios, the pipe,
sad the acidness et phithesphioal studies in which Bah*
then Wake{ ass epprogelmOdy introduced. Oa the well
gram tebeinspaith th. sword-sari of the pant men,
cawed with Worths Irma isag disuse, sad by the wieder
heaps a prink et Raabe* with ivy plead ewer is,
dgssalviy tailissibtg hew he yet angle themesaeryetthe
Pena. The five oaths wt dew-sit wereciretuesgallewei
bars the godssuallsksigthe Tower, In which he wee permitted
to walk. This *tare is solidly, yet lucidly, painted, bat
therogy wile Mr. Wellis's level of lest year. Still lees
sethsfaseray ashakelly is Kathy Marti*" (462), the ne-
ck* thengligally seatempletbeg the setting sun bola the
Bell in Clispiew Camila in width he was esafasd.

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" Ramo and Juliet." T 6. some Is that is trbk3h the County
Pig* ealing with as bridal frocammdan—triint, ratudeiano, and

cranhale—lade to his horic;, kis preenispi bride shetobed ap-
immatly NMI= on her bier (No. 698). Aselhorsamil piston
trj Mr. Leightsa, " The Fisherman and the Syron" (601), from
• ladled byGeadie, is elms* repulsive: it could scarcely be
salmis*. imolai? 80•800ted painting, Ivoweel, delicate
aid beenWel seta through the veld of poetry—end it is aloe
nibetedly unreal, which it need not have hose. Mr. Lured,
whom "Crimean Tent" was mtichedmired lest year, has very
greatly improved. His "Nearing Home" (444) nicely
reams the eirnetion, and is very my sad true in haisg. A
Crimean invalid lies on the poop of • wall tended by his
wife, but though some English had birds have settled ea the
ship, and the mikes and presagers, boning over the telbsdiar
make out the white elite la the dielimme, be is too weak to
notice the one or try to mogul") the ether. "The Girl Heft
behind me" (242) is stM more satisfactory se a week of eat.
She luis emu the hurt of her young caw lover at the
window, and now lours sadly by the mantelpiece, where in
the looking-gime we see the remainder of the regiment
still passing in the sheet, and we fancy we still hear the
cheering thee and drums playing the air which gives the
title to the picture, and, for its sentiment, is so oddly
hilarious.

We recognise mach promise of exesilanne in the ear
random. of Mr. Eyre Crowe. This is shareable, not
so much in detain (which are of secondary import-
ance, and almost nsosseerily follow higher quilities)
as in admirable chaos of ralneet, jetholous strangenest, and
intallipent sends* et the leading Mr. la No. NO we lave
Benjamin Frank& et Watts's, the plating-Mee la like.
oolies-inn (A.D. 1725), engaged, as le describes la his auto-
biography, reeding daring hisleintre hour, with • simple glen
of water before him, instead of &pendia( both tine end nosey
over "his pot end Ma pipe" with his if/s, reales basteriag
fellow workmen. There is something liegarthlia in the
pot-boy coining la with the keening tankards sad " mews
of tobacco, es IPA as in the workmen drawing Franklin's
attention to the placard annoesehig the aka- mof their
favourite bevergie—thiougli this memory were menseensey
if intended to elucidate the meaning to the spectator.
Analog hag:ay-4016:W incident is " Pops's Introduction
is Dryden at Will's Coin-house" (1,104), ladieding se it
does, with no impropriety, in their freuries literary haunt.
portraits not wily of the two posts, bet also of Toner, Steele,
Vanbrugh, Addison, Southern., Dennis, Congers, end 8l
Charles Wages.
The altogether unprecedented number of figumselhene
to the meat exhibition, to convey any impreenkee of which
necessitates some degree of minuteness in descriptket, his
already carried us beyond our present limits ; a few work of
the denriptios we most still defer the considanks of till
our next soda, when we shall also examine the remainlng
landscaper The portraits, miniatures and sculpture will
likewise demand at ken one subsequent notice.

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