The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

William Bunt, the Water Colourist

"A Bunch of May," the property of Mr. Wade, which,
while each pearl-hued petal has every tint and hue of
nature, =el the-most subtle foreshortening of its forMs, is,
as a whole, a masterpiece of composition, not only in
massing, but in chiaroscuro and, in its limited scope, in
colour. Before us also is "A Study of Hyacinths," drawn
with a purity and breadth in treatment of form, such as a
Greek painter might envy, solid at, a stereoscopic photo-
graph, finished beyond the dreams of a Dutchman, and
incomparably brilliant. There is also a third drawing,
"Grapes, Peach, and Plum" (exhibited at the Water•
Colour Society's Exhibition, 18W), which glows with
Titianesque ardours, and is as vivid, withal as sweet in
tone, as if the fruit it dealt with hal ripened in the Golden

Age.
lendour of
To him we owe a full recognition of the sp
colour in common objects. Who else but Hunt could have
painted that " Study of Gold—a Smoked Pilchard " (No.
216, Water-Colour Exhibition, 1860), which is now ill
?uses
in our Government Art-Schools as a triumph of colour
produced the "Study of Rose-Grey—a Mushroom," which
accompanied it ?At the now-open Water-Colour Society's
Exhibition is a "Dead Humming-Bird," which glows with
turquoise blue, green and gold, and even from the furthest
side of the room sparkles marvellouslly.
When, at the Exposition Universello, Paris, 1855, eleven
French attested, first, the surprise of the critics, and, se-
of the master's works were shown, the acclamations of the
condly, their knowledge of Art. As a humorist and deli-
neator of character, William Hunt obtained at home a
fairer recognition, and those who remember the last ex-
hibited work of this class, " Tke Fly-Fisher" (No. 212,
Water-Colour Exhibition, 1862), will not withhold from
the artist their high admiration. Such admiration was
given to the man who painted, with inimitable humour,
the stealthy creep of the boy's hand behind, and,
as he
thinks, away from the sight of that magnificent blue-bottle,
which, if the fisher has his way, will soon be
tering bait irre
with
purpose, his his in-hold breath, his lightly-lifted shoulders
are,
his cautious foot-fall and nervous gap s upon the rod,
the
points of character such as Hogarth would embrace
ale to certain chub. That boy's eyes, glit
artist for having painted.— Athememnr.

SAINToN AND MADAME DoLDY Kaye been
making a successful tour in Holland.
MR. BENEDICT has finished a new operetta, the
title of which is " The Bride of Song!'
THE 'THEATRE AT CHAMBERS has beau deatroF©d

by fire.
TIIE FOUR
"LIBERAL" CANDIDATES FOR
chief
b the Spectator as
BRIGHTON are aptly describe
—Mr. Fawcett, a man ~,,ho, being d respe
whose ctable, could never
y
recummendation was his property within the borough ; Mr.
be popular in Brighton ; Mr. Julian Goldamid,
Dumas, who had no recommendation at a 11;
and a Mr.
limper, whose claim was that he thought all Catholics
must be damned.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NIGHT..--IVIr. Whipple, of
s of the fountain
Boston, has produced effective photographic light. The
on Boston Common, illuminated by the electr
spray of the fountain, the leaves of the trees, and the per-
sons under them aro distinctly rendered.
HANSOM CABS have been introduced iOtO the
TUB ROMAN
island of Trinidad, in the West Indies. of
our antiquaries in favour of preserving the Roman
tumuli at B irtlow has been crowned with success. Even
TUmuLI SAVED.--The struggle
railway boards arc not insensible to earnest and unselfish
appeals on behalf of science, and the engineer of the Great
Eastern Railway has contrived to lay his lines so as to
avoid disturbing these Boman remains.
ARCHBISHOP WHATELY and 'Doctor the
new Bishop of Cork--interlocutors at Gregg,nbishop : "Come, though you are John Cork, you mustn't
stop the bottle here." Bishop answering, not ihaptly—" I
Bee your lOrdship is determined to draw me out."
A PUZZLING QUERY ..—Question If Brigham
he be a widower ?
young, the Mormon, were to lose one of his GO wives, would
exphing of grief from the loss
American, paper.
ber, as sovereign of liawaii,
KING KAldErfaxEnA, who died on the 30th of Nevem-
A.nswer ?—Not enough to hurt him,—
of his only son, was a man
powers, of ele-
gant tastes, keen perceptions, who could enjoy Kingsley,
Thackeray, Tennyson, and Was ever qa9ttug Sbak-
opera,