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MR. WRVS, GALLERY',
14. r',44lweattooleceic Oxford street*
The !OWN treatment of the wartypory, of she,late rrowistilis
' President of the Roy." Academy, is the carskijoll,
Exhititinn from the rooms, Jo Pa 114401, will,mtve to,* as
admit/we to his cenisie.sed impolitic, of a,„ 51ipe1.400414
lied. His Work!, am wow rxhibitittl iu a Gellert built, for
the purpose—.and their siteetkes, apeakjp( etlaijsuly, to
Hie due diskitietion of windowelight„, aro, as dioica nod
felieipons. gn. is, slim, rooms, oboes. Inistiotaed Ahoy spars hir
convesiesit, and ininriross. 'Masks to Mr. &MAIM As
lostibrit sad highly. respectable Secretary, • the piece. are
disposed Irish that manifest retard for their separate wool•
atklo light and distance, that secures for each the beef
meet Os* relehict properties can import, while en fe-
n premise in.colineyed drams them all together, which; at 114
lasi gleam, solemnises sire mind, sod lantoutly solsdies
%thigh". to 'taken and lOW chief room con-
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pfillgotoo owe aide the largo pietrie n Rejected-off
011ie other, Dean on Me Pale Wm* I%e corners ill
ie with some of the chapel 'Ater which hit. titer!
• Iggligtheeil for Windsor. The krr sere contain?, iltif
sent, amounting in all to twelve pi Sgt sl4ith 0t114144
for those decorations. it wool, rep ottititilittpiwt,
it* into any observations on tbke wo/111110Pecialil silt 19
large ones before wiratiosead, which ban bees es r.ectellg
before the public. The hobble of spielmeal has,
with respect to them, began to eubside; they are as *tit;
objects for thoughtful sikuce earl the seitttlilatheoll of Stu-
dents seeking improvement. The khy and lesagoil
of the Artist seems to pervade the whole. His reps is Ike
taste is sow perfectly established. Thezerphigiaajealsollp
and the *had', of professional and avartriteci oblorpty; aro
gar. What a pare stied be best have possessed! What
triumph over brief Jrh and all its petty snd injarioes eireum.
&assets ere mesikked is this iluelooded array of his ievalua.
ble ishones! He unlit have wrought always as if all posterity
were looking on. He wee condemned fur a fault from which
hi, lame will be row pea fret ly relieved. His Spires were held,
it some isstsoctsa, to west solidity in the colouring; they
seem only to have waisted light and situation in tbs display
of theta. He worked ors a greet ride. His rigid 4414
of judgment forbade his brio( recourse to the glare of h!le
riles to aid his purposes; he callused his .colours to OH;
must concords., anklet', had Wasted to !be Annotation of
'meal nod vivid light to burnish their tints and iadeot 'brie
shadows. Take an ipsiesnice : Alpert it Shathegol ppiptingt
No.Afti, 11See receiving /lee Laws. The flood of light eato.
main from bebiod the eked, deletes the steep wheerillolloll
otitotk, and the /reap is the (reinsert belto4ll4 1108111114
near when theses is obscured, all the dimwit:rano tliondirldi
%he iffum seem to wow 111141attet pad rotundity, and theta.
metal appearance is that of a light trasepareocy like she
don, to embellish which it Irk rioted. But viewing it from the
distset tad of the ream, order a fell meridian light, tbq
relations of the .perspirtire are gitiroveroil, the Irmo oil
all coooded lotto Milt atotedtratma/1/114- tint"
retreat. Moses is a srilid• earthly beim*, surrounded with
beams of celestial glory, which are beyond the suroratteo of
Iris mortal vision. Smiler observations will apply to other
pieces here exhibited, which were painted likewise to em-
Istilials religious edifices. There are pictorei, borrower, in
this Exhibition which are adapted fur every experiment of
iespectioa.

No. 87. Represents Abrender of Scothted remits,
from the fairy of a Stag, by Celia Fitzgerald —This is an
unquestionable triumph of genies, and owe ft to compete
with all instances of it whirl, exist. !Firm, to .peak of the
sompositiam--elogs, bermy and heaters Oft realsisig from
half the points of the compote 'swards .acelltieton "mites
which is represented by 'be perilous. gatemen' of the folks
monarch. The felicity with which all the molars are Ca.
posed, whereby, _while
.hesriog delta towards a general
track, their.swift •pproximatioas thrfalftli as COONS/PO or
incoorepierice to the geperal design of. rescue, is as excel.
leper which Moat be sees to be properly valood. The dia.
,play of the ands *clients is titat of mood and constitutional
bravery. The, Monarch sopports his oppremed weight with-
ono hood.--the ether mops the shaggy neck of his hseelded
aptiversary with a rigid contraction of the knomitles and the
muscles of the wrist, which iatimates the *tram bet 'Moly.
. repelling force exerted by the outstretched arm. The colds-
lesance is tethered up into an expression of majestic auger,
grits antinged with fear. lu dam, as well as in tbe at-
•.titode sad miss of Fitzgerald, there is a composure of
whit and determined certainty as to the result, which r!licirra
the railed from doubt as to the issue, while the dagger is
.till nighty imminent. The uplifted arm sad deactmelial
javelin of the Nobleman have the decision of unalterable
destiny marked pis them. The wild mod furious snips of
the horses is well contrasted with the warlike dpmetitg sod
resolotimi of their riders. in dyaling with so dausgerous a
crisis. The bounds are upea.mouthed7—tilseir shaggy dew.
lops brushing the grass, shOwthens Jo be "of the troy.
Spartan breed." A picture no animated,, aad displaying
with such tagenions.aud well.todered detail the impulses and
effect of heroic anger,. will seldom be men. To pass over
the correct beauty of costume, the strung nationality of
features, and •the true traditional ordering of she chase—
' which might lead one to iniagiue that At.gx.ancutg himself
'Add bespoke Alm painting in gratitude for his reecna7there
.111 • charm in the arrangentem and accordance of the colour-
tog which seems to fix the boundaries of excelleoce in tbst
division of the art. It would be mach to any that any thing
„more chaste, bras t fa I, and bigmouths's, cannot be conceived ;
Abet d is barely the truth to say that it will be a lung time be-
'film, any such thing will be executed. There me other pieces
which establish Mr. WEST'S fame on the proudest eminence,
Is respect to those attributes which have been the most re.
,lectantly yielded to him, namely, the character and dispo-
'•eitioii• of Ilia colouring. That be bad a distinct taste of
his own forming—one too whirls all coming times will
appreciate highly, must be evident so all who are capebje
of remarkissg the apparent assiduity and self-denial with
which be slimmed the more brilliant hues is the drops-
ries of his latter pieces.. But this dues sot . prove his
iocapability of valuing them, or &depth% them with
the groat fanciful precision as to effect. Whose boa
entertained any such opiaioa„ let him behold N 0.38. The
Lest.Srpper. It wall theta be mew .with whet pleasant,
lively, and successful obedience he hos followed up theelftet
of the rich, lorid, and deoploised mdoeriog of the halimse.
This mean to have berated' posaaatio• peostrof threollt the
stied of the 'reddest, and etreirgthealog its glory is the