The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-06-10 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

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BRITISH INSTITU'IION, PALLAIALL.

• Nos. 3 sad 4. Vierri rof Tivoli. G. POlusgrxt.—These
ere winks of manatee y, which is a limited space comprise as
Ideas, pate, es go to hundreds of our academic leadocapes.
How our modems can look at them and the. ecusteat them-
selves with their thus shading and wairontinaed perspective
is anisaisg. lirre we hare the object as I. assure, glooing
sad fresh on she surface, wader which the /roue& are leid
with durable solidity and a deep repose of shadow veteran,
Urged with light, which shines Opus, but not, as with our
Academy wen. thresseh the objetka. •
No. 28 !feud of David. MamagAiDT.—This fill.
piece way wet...looked by most of the critics in the first review
of the Enka/4hr*, though it is one of the mast exalted com-
positions of the paimer—he who, to nee Mr. HAZLITT.II
beautiful eulogy of him, "tire of she twask of darkileas,
and (lathed the ragged brow of sight wi b smiles" The
bead has a serene, piestv, end contemplative air, to which
the kiwely spiel' is glade finery stilsorditiate. The look no.
plies sometbiug of doubtful conquest over a sense of legal
pride—as if tt.e Horst P.almi.t were in the attenate of his
own prayer Ok, pride my Magas milk meekness." It
would be idle to descant upon the techeical excellencies of an
artist Du well brown, or the constant felicity of touch with
which he relieves the tihjeits of the foreground from the in-
teresting obscurity of his slisdows.
Nu. 39 Bailie Piece. Bouttoociaa.--A highly spirited
peifornianre, which rouveys in wiiitiatere all the desire sad
chivalry .if the contested field. It is one of those pieces by
which the mind is rapt float the rim mad horror which lie
smothered 10-siestb, irio a sense of the immortal glory to be
reaped 14 one ride or the other. It is matter at swipvising
spreelatiou to consider by what power the 'mister can awa-
kes each an Impulse on a piece urcativass, out more than It
iarhis king, wheie each tiot must be a narrative of itself, or
all is forfeited, and yet we feel as dam empire drpruded on
the issue.

No 43. Bailie Piece. SA AAAAA a R05a....-No less is fa-
I guy uf iles,gu and peneiliog is this piece, which yes adds
an ohm-lire degree of biro► by covering part of the action
wiih the iniffse.inw of gunpowder smoke. This again 111
finely aitesiti..ied against the side of so impending ruck,
which frowns (to use the sluing of the novelists) with fn.
bidding aspect upon the quarrel of the puny beings at its
base.
No.. 55 and 81 SI. Prawns del Prape► cad SI. Fraser*
in nit Eesttuy. MURILLO.—These are works which make
the sanctity of the komieh legends real; shat intense
essiolitos of She spirits which developes direct inspiration
hone shore; that palpable and powerful faith, which memo
enough ." to remove multutains." Did we live for our ;ma-
'Maine only, we should have to lament the decay of the re-
ligion which conld so exalt the studs and labours of bur
inotwries.

No. 91. Thu Martyrdoms of ttt Catherine. Comet/Hr.--
This is astatine piece, of the same prodlrious excelleriee.
The neck of she
lovely
martyr is •verted by the rude hand of
the stoic,—but the seraphic spirit is unruffled. The
"beauty of holiness" is nailieled unit the most delightful at-
tributes of form and feature—the rusubdired soul smiles ou
the paiu and rusts apptroaching it. (mil but lovely tabressele.
Here is the greater.' triumph of Clurstrauity—ishe deadliest
wrongs accompanist, by a deportment of imereeasioa I. the
sufferer fur the falku state of the perpetrator'. Could we
but practise umi little of the precept thus held out is regard
to our lightest injuries! The 6M alt and colour are as ex.
quisite as the compositiom Were ever ham!' dropped with
such ineffable grace sad symmetry from the ieuumisiose
hands which comfier Owls What delicacy its the cur/inks
of the frame! What expression is every fiat of the fiesta!
Whet a sense of all beauty, spiritual sad terrestrial, through-
out !

No. W. Head of a Pod. SALVATOR Ros•.--Lik• all hi*
compositions, this has the character of resolute .fleet predo-
minant. The colouring too desceuds (ions the boldest bight
to the deepest shadow sedde•h, and yet with due tempera.
west. These is something too much of (unit nieted•rff for
our modern notions of • poet, which may yet be correct
e•wegh fur the artist's clime sod period ; but the ai► a sere.
rie, approaching to ecstasy, Is among the Seem sesames
of expression.

To. 111. Iho Balk of !Kowa, and 115. Apollo recalled
to Ileneei. Aawascu--bsee his naval boldness of debnes-
tiou—soft gtoir of colouring and poetry of description.
Wbethrr the remark be allowable or not must be fell to
those skilled in the inner in)stesies—but their seems so be
something abrupt in los militates whitb we arc out woul to
expect in the artists of Its period.