The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-02 00:00:00

GALLERY OF PICTURES AT THB CRYSTAL

PALACE

The scheme projected by the directors of the
Crystal Palace to have an annual imbibition of paintings,
Entlimb and foreign, oommenciag late enough in May to
receive works rejected at the Academy, and continuing open
four months, has been carried out eo fir nocessfully that
there ham bees remind, we should calculate, nearly
one elsoussed pictures. The last wing, that is to say the
pert of the building the farthest from the entrance, is ap-
propriated to their reception. We were favoured with a
glazes at them on Saturday. _

Among the English contributors we only noticed four or
Are Aceilesaiciana A Bea Nymph, by Frost; a Sans iron

. .
Don Quixote, by Leslie; an Esstern lady—lntended, no
doubt, to be a beauty—by H. W. Piskeiregill; ea admirable
Portrait Group, by Height; and souse of the notab's per
romances of Abrahams Cooper. A picture by Roberts is,
we believe, on its way, sad oleo one by Sir Edwin Leadsier,
the latter, curiously enougb, sent by the King of the Bel•

glass. lithe Roy;1 liestrelldeilnl condescendto patronise
the inhibition, we understand they are Is be favoured with
a squats roma. There us works also by the following
E■glisb artists :—W. M. Thomas's " Deal nes the Knife ;"
• most unmistakeable lukipp ; a large Landscape,

by Anthony, with excellent fern painting ; a good picture
by Hering ; • touching scene by H. O'Neil ; an earnest
historical platen by C. Lucy ; and an immense work by
Brown—the lest three have been in the Academy; a very
good landscape by Percy, and a good specimen of pre-
Raphaelite perception of nature by Inchbold. We also
notified a picture—good Is colour and offset—of female
slaves, but did not rat:effete' the artist. The water colour
paintings wars not hung, bat from the number of piles we
should impact that they will be at least a. well represented
as the other,. we coined, on puma, a asonaaa, • Bee
tnolomew, and a D'Hgville.
The French school is represented by about 160 works of
so gnat average merit, although, like all the foreign coats'
nations, of more equal excellence than than of oar own
artists. There are also about 120 Belgian works of the same
quality. We remarked a sm•1l picture of oxen capitally
foreshortened by Rosa Bonbon!, and other works by differ_
eat members of this family of artiste; a large historical
picture by Colas; a reduction of the great picture "La
decadence dm Romaine," in the Luxembourg; a picture by
Bignol ; several large works by Biard, inaludisig the &mons
picture of a shipwrecked crew on • raft; two large paint-
ings by Courbet, and a dark beauty in • red
silk mantle by Beaune—one of t►e sweetest faces

sad cheekiest weeks of art in the gallery ; be-
sides paintings by NAT.., De Visas, Pichon, Leclerey,
Baron de Montpesst, Manley (small pictures in the style of
Meisonnier), Beechen, Wasters, and Ladner. This last
srtiet gives en imaginary scene in the trans of the Coliseum
at the time of the persecution of the Christians, very fertile
in invention, bat too horrible in detail. There an two
contz,butions promised by Ingres, a large flower-pleas by
St. Jean of Lyons, and from Belgium a painting by
De Keyser sod Baron Wappen. There Is a pic-
ture by the Belgian muter Lops, which many of
oar readers have seen before ; the colour is in a
low key, but the tone is extremely Ike. There are
two or three pietates of gossipping groups of Watteau-like
dregs and sentiment, by Carols' Mena and Benue. There
le a good Arab none by Portaels ; a broad Isndseape by
Roston, and flowers by Nolaine de Consolers ; careful in
Mach but moat unnatenlia colour.

There ors very few Gamut works with which the public
Sr. unsequalated, 'adjudging fries the number we have
here from last year's exhibition they must have but very
unfortunate in the market. The German pictures here
number about 60, and the Ditch some 60 more. There ins
picture by Gude, the Gauss master who pilled the gold
medal at the Paris Szpaition, and some pod landscapes.
although wanting is the English qualities of atmosphere,
brightness sad freshness, by the following artiste, via,
Bodoni, Balmier, Weber, and 'Linderman.. These is •
good picture by G. Acheabsch ; soother by Jordan, cf
Dusseldorf; au immense oae by Cornelius; we remarked
also a little pm of the nude figure, by H. Lehmann. Be-
sides these shoellauseue woks there are, as we have

already minuted, man other' frou,last peat's exhibition of
Oerem palatine la Bond-stmt.

Hebron, of New York, contributes two or three works, one
or which may be WWI, paradoaktally, the heroic of cosmos-
place. It is a pietism of spiaal propertious, with the very
unpostioal subject of a bustling Aseriesa lariat to winter.
Ws believe the rely Italian picture is that with tbe cha-
racteristieally obsotfol subject of Parkins, by Gootaldi, of
Tula.

CRYSTAL P•LACE.—The Regent of Baden, at-
tesded by the Hoe. Mortimer Sackville West, the Baron
Sumter, the Baron Gesemingen, Dr. Ullman, sad other
members of his mite, paid a I engthesed Malt to the Crystal
Pelee. ea Saturday. His highs's, mad* a minute Wpm-
lion of the Palates end its contests particularly of the ma-
chinery departmeat, sad the new gallery of seeders pictures
la the north Whiff. He alto witeessed the playing of the
fountains, sad took luncheon to the Palace before hie de
patters. Hie highness wee received sad coaduted by Mr.
Fauvism, the genera meager of the company.
BALtAZ lx R•o•fiVe.raffx.—A bazaar ea a some-
what intensive male is appointed to take place to-morrow
(ruredey) is tire muds of the Tozepholite Society.
litegent's-park, ea behalf of the Hospital foe Ceassapties
at Swanton. A mammoth test bee been pitched. to GPM-
moist* 10,0011 penman, sad hem the objects presented to the
charity for Mk, sad the punter of aristocratical Wise who
have possated to preside at stalls, an intercedes Oak is
anticipated.
DIMS 01 OKICIRAL J. F. BIRCH, C.B.—We
have to record the death of General J. F. Block, of the
Royal Basinewle, who died ea Thursday lest. The an
ommosal bed boss la the asap shoes silty peen. and had
soot mask sesvios.

Mr. Maim' Andrews, the well knows coach.
Waist. of liewthemptee, wee, ea Saturday, Owed mayor
of that taws is quo Teen of thispese Payee, Zig., dimmest
It la 134 years aims that sable/ magistrate of Southamptoa
died duties Ige your el odor, aril it it remarkable that is
that year. oil, 1712, a Mr. R. Andrew, was sleeted to 11l
the dole eh* &Mei the romaiselet el Wear.