The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-20 00:00:00

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flit PINE ARTS.

:yesterday an Exhibition of Paintings iu Water
Colliers commenced at the Greet Raoul, Sprier.
• prilessa, where the works of the Society of Painters
to Oil and Water Cubism are annually submitted
to public inspection. The increase of Exhibitions
of Ibis kind of lotto years, and the patron oge which
Hy attends throes, is a strong iedication of
••• Lie;:owsug attention of the public to the culture.
• ties of the Fine Arts. great success which
be. of late years ettristled the minimal Bahillitions
oldie Royal Academy nod British liostitittiost, has
Miami', a number of cistiatri4l Exhibitions. contriv-
ed by the *previsio n). of coinineiee, the result
li' bees most ferouluble fur the taste of the pub-
, he, end tow effective encouragement of the Artist.
These Exhibitions, Mr. Fuest.t hes well said, hive
total ourprisiog effects--through their toed a
• • melee seff-tsiaglot, as well as of tutored posers,
—tea bird upon the general eye, aud suequivocally
"told the ministry what might be expected from the
• eiviseurresee of public etsomumgemesit.
. That/remit Exhibition at Sprinrgerdens con-
mists solely of Pointing, in Water Colours, and
these by a single individual—an Artist of the mime
of WALLii, little knows., we believe, iu the gent-
rid circle of our dung Artists. He is said to be a
rising man who is entirely indebted to his own
powers fee the proficiency which he has Nuquestiou.
ably acquired in his profession. That this prod.
civet/ is considerable, the pictures unquestiunibly
peeve; they also, in some instances, convey a strung
amtolnuation that the Artist is, in a greet degree,
Mlliaseglit, and lies not availed himself of the very
rimoomep drudgery of an academic course of study,
by which he might (and no doubt from his powers
would) have attained that anatomical know-
ledge of the human figure, which would have
• fumbled bias to delineate it at will, with ease
mid eorreetwess. This defect is, if we mistake
tiot, observable iu some of the present pictures ;
it is however het justice to say, that the Artist his,
by chiefly omillning his studies to landscape paint-
*, adopted a branch of his profess on, which in
weepy instances excludes the tiecesoity of any eery
*este delineation of the figures which-are intro-
timed is the prospect, and of course avoided in a
API* dives aloe Necessity of touching upon those
trots of hie pearession to which he bed not very as.
.11ifinously devoted his attention. The Exhibition
upwards of forty landscapes, some of
• *hick are one much larger scale than is usually
...Mitigated to water-colour paintiosgs. Many of then.
afro merceted with uncommon taste, and coloured
• yids a richness and mellowness which oil painting is
Mionse.gewirealiy *opposed capable of couveyiug.
/Zesolluito No. 37, is a flue example of the
piAlters of colouring. There are several snow
=which are executed with fine effect, snide-
-4011 all the truth of nature that grey and
few stmorric appearance which attends the
severe feast o a hard winter. The Artist has:been
peeeliorly wet-oral its the handling of his skies,
sod hie pictures are in this respect entitled to close
attention. Tb. ores are generally well ;muted,
nod there is a -softness of verdure in some of the
leedecepes which is strikingly natural.
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