The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

THE

FINE ARTS.
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ROYAL ACADEMY.

that an apology is due to our readera•fornot having sooner
• out remarks on the Exhibition of the present year;
requires some time to select, out of so many hundred
hick innst all be glanced at, the number, small as it is,
,ieti deserve notice and examination. Having, however,
tt,:ed ourselves with this time, proceed, without
face, to examine the last productions- of the arts of

Miss O'Neill as the Tragic Muse, by G. F. Joseph, As'
iii picture, which may claim mud) merit as a likouess,
still more praise as a composition. The attitude of the
Apotigene is as striking for the absence of all labour and
ter effect, as for its grace and simple dignity. Her left
ipon a lyre. while her right lays extended along her side.
directed tipwants, and the whole countenance is ex-
a contemplative melancholy, composed, but profound.
I. well painted, and the accessories are classical and

.77e Departure to London, by E. Bird, R. A. Elect. It
le emnlation of the fame of Wilkie that produced this
ice' might not form an inappropriate companion to " The
Irialtiction," by that itrtist, in the last year's Exhibition.
pr.sra in a house, better in appearance than a cottage,
•to a farni-house. The figures are too immerons to ad-
Taratc description, but that of the Traveller himself,

'ving the last directions and counsels of his old father, is
best. The mother, who is finishing the business nt
seems ranch more occupied in considering what she shall
the trunk, than in the approaching departure of her
(epee against ',allure which might have been avoided, by
•harge awlely to his sisters, who are seen assisting her in
'lle minor of in this picture are all happily imagined,
truth and interest.

100 70 --Two Pictures of Sabrina, from Milton's Corpus,
did, N. A. The first of these represents Sabrina, taken
Water Nymphs; the second her quilting them, when
Idess of the River." The la.it ha• most merit, though we
.arable tir the attitude "of the Nereids, which is some-
pressive arid More inelegant.

The Trespaes-Compromised, by W. R. Rigg, R. A. Elect'
'pie story well described. Two young ladies have alight-
cr donkirs to redeem from the pound the ass of a poor
which had illegally cropped a few blades of grass, and
Auged the fences of a churlish neighbour : one of then'
of paying for tree miachiet committed, while the other
ith an air of pity the head of an impontided horse, which
to followe,i to the door of hi. prison his more fortunate
The figure of the old woman, whose gratitude appears
words to express itself, is highly characteristic.

—The original Chad of the great Picture of Christ Re-
he President. As the large picture on this subject must
the generality of our readers. it would be superfluous
into any detail of its parts. We shall content our-
th"ervit,g, that those who have not seen the greater pro-
f .c.areely, we think, consent to deprive themselves of
'e very long after seeing the sketch in question.
,—Distraining for Rent, by D. Wilkie, R. A. This pie-
ty one %shich Wilkie exhibits this year, is certainly the
:ate of Ins performance,, The personages are numinous
liation ut %%Web the; at to the most part placed, is one
varied emotion. The cottaw•F and his wife, in whose
lent this rigorons act of the taw i:, taking its course, seem
Ito a state of distress bordering upin despair. By the
man, however, stands a f fiend, perhaps a -brother, engaged
altercation with the steward. and whose furious at:stares
owed features finely contremed by the cool self pm-
he latter. An old man, eppinently the father of the cot-
leavoming to restrain the improdent %veinal' of the dis.
Ile he in turn is checked iu his isitcrtereLer by his aged
angry helpmate. Various other characters are intro-
as the men who are taking possession of the different ar-
Aitnre, and the neighbours whom curiosity hair drawn to
seem,.

Is of this picture are moat highly fu particular,
water in a +coiling btantl, are of a rid city truly

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