The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-30 00:00:00

FINE ART&

KILHIBMON OF THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS
IN WATER-COLOURS.
Thin exhibition, to which he public is now in-
vited la Pall-mall, is remarkable for its uniform excellence.
The figure department is perhaps not so well represented
numerically as in the gallery of the new society, lout land-
scapes of the highest merit abound on all sides. The beatr
knows contributors, it is true, are rather below their nevi
high-water mark, but this a more than compensated by
the spring-tide which has landed many high and dry,
and not again, we trust, to ebb out of public favour.
Mr. Gilbert is allowing himself to be more and MHO
carried away by a dangerous facility of execution. To this
is saceificed drawing and colour, ea in the Marred
proportions and gawky embroilment of opaque and tree.
parent tints in "The King's Trumpets and Kettle Drente
(21). Through this facility, off-hand caricature taker the
place of precise character ; and emphatic expression is re-
placed* something bordering on superficial vulgarity In
the Shakesperian Illustrations of "Falstaff's Disgust of hie
Reamed Soldiers" (66), and " Ancient Pistol bringing Falstaff
tidings from the Court" (73). The pictereaque-at-any-price
princilijk has also become instinctive to this clever artist
throe* long practice of wood engraving, for we see effect
obtained by an entirely arbitrary distribution of light and
shade, and rarely in his pictures by judicious management of
mimes of colour. All these objections apply (and the con-
sequent distinction of the Mealtime in this instance is in-
creased by an immoderate use of the scraper) to
the pictorial rendering of the scene in " Bleak
House'--"Miss Flite introduces the Wards in Jarndyce
to the ' Lord Chancellor' " (83). The wards are littlebetter
than pleasing nonentities, otherwise the propriety of cha-
rader and humour here is much more adequately represent.
tire of the author than are the Shakaperian subjects. The
firm manner and droll antiquated dress of poor array MI.
Flits arc, in particular, especially felicitous. Them is small
contribution on one of the screens by Mr. Burton, late et
Munich, containingperhaps the most perfect flesh modelling
and purest " (lunation." in the gallery. It is entitled
" Ein Schutzpatronentage ; in der Procession" (228). A
sweet little child, carrying a lily, and gaily dressed, imps?.
sonates in a religious proemial the patron saint of the le.
cality, and assumes with the most innocent naivete the re-
quired expression of sanctity. Mr. Smallfield, the newly
elected Associate Exhibitor, is as unpretending in subject
and as careful in execution as heretofore, but with
less of pre-Ruphaelite hardness. The mellow hazy indefinite-
ness of " Harvest Moonlight" is perfectly caught in No.
149, but there are little faults of drawing in the foot as
there are also in the toy " In Earnest" (89)—a boy playing
the violin after having stripped for bed.
Some members of the Goodall family are becoming almost
as distinguished in water-colours as Mr. Frederick is in oil-
paintiag and Mr. Edward in engraving. " The Farm.
house Porch " (130), by Mr. Walter Goodall, is beautiful
in drawing, nod the texture of the horse admirable. Mr.
Edward A. Goodall, with invariably correct couleur locale,
is improving in abstract colour, as witness " Omnibus per
Lido: Venire" (1W) ; while for effect " The Rialto—Mooa-
light ; Landing the Fruit at the Market" (133), is equally
praiseworthy. Mr. Toptiam—like, as we have mid. some
other favourites of this mom—is not In his usual force, nor
in manner so recognisable this year. We miss the witching
eyes of his wild bah gipsies and Spanish water-Warm.
The " Welsh Fern Gatherer" (124) is, however, very
pleasing. The " Donne Moi" (109) of Mr. J. Jenkins is
a delightfully expressed passage of simple childish nature :
the fear of losing her apple of the little child huddling
up to her companion for protection is perfectly caught.
Mr. Oakley's "Spring Flowers" (132) is a comparative
failure: the countryman is something of, u heavy clumsy
dandy, and the other figures are conventional. The two
Greenwich Peers " Discussing an Invasion" (11) is,
' however, free front all affectation. Mr. G. Rosenburg,
in " The Obstinate Tenant" (17) has tried a new line
of art with deciekel success. We MO imagine the diffi-
culty of ejecting from her erasy old log *gin, where
perhaps she Mabel from infanay,the aid, aid woman vbs.
now crouches before her wood fire and great iron caul-
! dm, smoking her solitary pipe, and glares up at us
from beneath ber shaggy eyebrows with'such sloop of fixed
and settled determination. We may mention here a land-
: some by this artist, namely, " Ben Nevis," and the range
of bills seen from above Corpach, Argyllshire (90), which
for its keen perception of space and exquisitely minute
drawing certainly deserved a better place.
Mr. Frederick Tayler, the President, in some of his
drawings treats the human figure with such conventional
sketchiness of manner and with so broad, washy, and float-
ing a touch, that, though indicative of knowledge and power,
the result does not satiety as regards imitative realisation.
But in the rendering of canine sagacity Mr. Tayler seems to
us almost unapproachable. What, for example, can be
more truthful than, in " Expectation" (115), the watchful
anxiety of the hounds guarding game, their keen apprehen.
sirs look-out for and sniffing anticipation of their metes
return. By Mr. W. Hunt there is a French peasant girl at
devotion (220), and two " Studies of Heads" (240). The
studies are specially remarkable for that air of perfect ob-
jective reality and illusive imitation so truly wonderful ia
this artist's still life, and of which there are numerous ex-
amples here, including two of a series painted for Mr. Ruskin,
THE HELlolotril DIMENSIONS AT ST. GrOROZ'S-IN- to be presented to schools of art. Among the few remaining
THr.E.ter..-- Yesterday seeping there were the usual yelling.,figure subjects the "Peat Carriers on Moel Sabel" (272),
bowline, timings, and other profanities which have for
the plot disgraced the parishchurch of eit. George's-in-the- by Mr. A. D. Frin —o and the works of Miss Gillis deserve
Lult .As usual, there was • great crowd in Cannon-street prior attention. Among the landscapes, interiors, k se, there are,
to the opening of the gates for the 7 o'clock service, ands however, some whose human interest is more or lees
when they were admitted, they indulged themselves by heightened by the figures introduced, and these we propose
making tile most hideous noises of which they were camible. I to „mew fast.
Five priests and about 20 choristers came from the vestry
in prcemion, and were violently hared as they took their Herr Carl Haag contributes three or four works the
places within the rails of the communion table. The Rev. fruits of his recent journey to the East, but resembling very
Bryan King (the rector) and the Rev. T. D. Dove (the little productions hitherto identified with his name. One
curate) ascended the reading desks, Mr. King saying the of these is a !sage view under poetically appropriate con-
prayers amidst constant interruptions. During the hymn, which was sung after prayers, a gentlemen ascended the : totioos of sunset of the stupendous and magnificent " Ruins
pulpit, who had a moustache and a huge beard. He jof the Temple of the Sun, Palmyra (the ancient Tadmor in
WAS received with a loud shout of derisive laughter, I the wilderness)" (106). Notwithstanding the notification
loud cries " Nanny," and imitations of the cry
a goat. The rev. gentleman appeared to he astouished
"painted on the spot, 1859," and although we
have not visited the East, we seem to mina in
at this strange reception, and evidently did not under-
strind it. He is the Rev. John David Jenkins, M.A., this otherwise fine picture the peculiar local individuality,
Fellow .1 Jesus College, Oxford, Canon of Cape Town I the arid sandiness which we instinctively feel to be facts,
Cathedral. Scarcely a sentence of the sermon was distinctly I and which is so unmistakeable in the work. of Maim
beard.
Seddon, Holman Hunt, and other recent authorities. A
INDUATRIALTRAINIXO SCHOOLS.
landsma•n. like a portrait, may we think, bear internal evi-
-At the weekly meeting of the. Maryleleme Council, held .
at the Com thouse, en Satunley, Mr. Claurehwarden deuce of being a good likeness: The artist here, however,
Pobaid in the chair, Mr. Hodges asked if it were true that in a certain viscidity of colour appears to hare
the beard of guardians hiel on the previous day ordered sal l been unable to forget his indoor effects. For
vertinements to be issued to borrow as additional sum of two other drawings by Herr Haag, painted by
4,800/., to complete the Industrial Training Schools for the
peeper
tai
el Soctliall. A sum 0ft2,000/. had already command of her Majesty, we have nothing but
en obtaimel for that purpose, and what he wished to know commendation. The first is "The Cave beneath the Holy
wan whether the guanhane were empowered to borrow this ! Bock, Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem" (224), with figure, pros-
money without the sanction of the vestry. Not having re- resting thentaelvis before the holyseptilchre of our Lord.. The
oared any reply to this question, Mr. Hodges said, seal seeond is " The Jews wailing at the Temple Wall" (232).
that the ve‘try MO to raise the foods to pay the prince.,
mei interest oil these moneys borrowed, he considered dire , A fragment of wall composed of enormous blocks is sup-
had a right to be coneulte.l. He should, therefore, move Weed to be a part of the substructure of
for a return of all moneys which hail been mined, and how I the original Temple of Solomon, and hither pil-
they hml been expended upon the schools at Southall, and , grim Jews cane from all parts to loudly wail or
for what purpones the additional 4,5001., for which he on- : lamest. A recess in one of the stones a, according to Tab-
deretorel the lean! of guardians were about to advertise to • .„
haunted b the of Solomon,
borrow, was required. The motion was seconded and carried mme.' "amtemet still
without diecumem, sal the returns entered. Mr. J"seph Nash has found a very congenial subject in
Stearn. or ARTs CONVNJUSAZIONL —The find con- "Commonwealth Troops in possession of the Chapel of the
vermziooe of this session took place on Saturday evening, : Duke of Norfolk, attached to Arundel Church, Sussex."
at the home( the Society of Arta, in Johnstreet, Adelphi. r (24). All *seethe straw-drown pavement of this beautiful
The principal attraction of the evening wee a collection of
gothic chapel puritan zeal has scattered headless effigies of
lipwards of two hundred miniatures and drawings by the
late Sir William Rom, R.A. which were hung mod the saints dashed from their niches, broken candlesticks, cave-
wall. of the great reel. This cellection is now "pen for her casques, and heraldic escutcheons. The opaque texture
public exhibition. In the meld room were collected a !
variety of new and inrnimin invention., and thew wm of this painter is very suggentive of the granulation of stoma.
Equally well also has Mr. Nish recalled before a medieval'
ertenciee
"The
lent by Elkingtons, and Messrs. Jac
and church and castle, the forgotten English revelries of
Graham. several of the tables were covered with the First of May in the Sixteenth Century" (55), with the amass
microscopes of Mews- Its, Baker, Pillacher, and round the maypole, decorated with spiral wreathe at
Varier% and the stereuecopes of Moon. Mime)" and Heath, flowers, the stalkinghonve jousts, the area sage°,
in which some idijects of unusual interest were shown ; the roundabout, and other characteristic sports and
stool Messrs. Mapple and Co. exhibited an electric clock on a
novel priaciple. Sons photographs burnt in on glass and P"'"`"". "bulling •" • notice immove.
porcelsin were contributed by M. Joubert, and name re. meat in tone of colour and breadth of light and shade la
markable specimen of copper ore and malachite from Atm. j Mr. Read—qualities difficult of attainment in tracing the
trails by Professor Tennant. At interests during the even- details of architecture. The " Council Room in the
lag Mr. Charles T. Jones exhibited an oxyhydrogen ap-
neo•'en.-ttall, Antwerp" (273), is in these essentials very
tr.aleui with a series of beautiful photographic yews a
noteworthy—the modification of the light as it falls en the,
I
Hs GovEsswrr Rzroftw Bill town's different colours of the floor and wall is also :admirably
,
meeting will he held to-morrow (Tuesday) evening in St. discriminated. There is a striking passage
of Do Welds-ge
Amfrew'ehall, Norwich, to protest against the lenges,' like effect in a drawing of A corridor in the same buil ling
uffic' tl modified with shadow, the masses
roof is not s len y
•
leal
Derby, ant
opinion in (etym.,' the talailesial .come. From the - execution duly ProPoe-
reee&riet4ly
meyraircell
enueett. IliEnde.
expre.Grey andi.loo.o (161). With the exception that the blank wbite•was
feeling nianifented on the Mint Ike misting no doodle an bal""4 "Wing' awl
the
be an enthusiastic sad crowded pairies. twat. in the mane mimes " Interior of the Church of St.

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l anti workmanalap, tefulness of knish and
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of an important branch of British industry,; with rules for
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wIDDING and BIRTHDAY PRESENTS.
H. R0DR102124. 42, Pteeuilly, Writes attention to his
STOCK of DRAWING CABII2I, TRAVELLING DUN&
riVIAGS, DESPATCH WIEN, Writing Caws, Work Boors,
Jewel (*in, LADIVe RETICULE and CARRIAGE BAGS of
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RLOTINO S)KM, and INK/STANDS en sone: Scent Canna
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Dia it: -SLIDE, also • choice variety of ELEGANCIRS and
NOV ELTIMS suitable for PRESENTATION, too various to
numnate. Tn he had at HENRY RODRIGUES 42, Ptceadllly,
two door from Socknilawireet.

OIPIAN WOMINCI SCHOOL, HAVERSTOCK.

HILL.
The animal meeting of the governom of thin
charitable in•titutioL took place at the London Tavern on
Friday ; J. gammon MILLS, Fog., the president, in the
chair. Twenty-nye children were elected in the usual
inaoser to he received into the school.

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The report of the oremnittee of merit was read,
stating that the chlklren had teen genera y healthy duringthe past year, and that they had continued to make sound
progress in useful instruction: The number dd children in
the school, as reported last April, was '.763; left during the
year, 48; elected in November last, 23 ; to be elected this
day, 23; admitted by presentation, 2; by purchase, 7.
The number on the list after the present election will be
11414 boys and 86 girl.; total, 274. There have been 1,943
children received since the commencement of the charity.
For the enlargement of the school building contracts were
entered into anti the works commenced in February.
They are being carried out in a satisfactory man-
ner, soil are to be completed on 31st October next.
In respect to fund; the special contributions to the cente-
nary fund for the peat year amounted to 2,2111. A. 11d.,
which made the total receipts to Dec. 31 amount to
8,6781. 7s. liL Deducting the disbursements of three
years, there remained an available balance at the above
elate of 7.2431. Bs. Bil, as shown in the auditors' report.
Ahoy, 9001. have ben received since that period. lo ad-
dition to the special contributions, the auditors' report
shows that, upon the ordinary account, the receipts last
year amounted to 110 f. 145. 7d:. beyond these of 18,38. In
fact, the general fund has been benefited each year
by the applications made on behalf of the cente-
nary fund. The. committee have determined to admit
ten additional children in 1861, beyond the fifty at present
to be received, or sixty daring lbs year.