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top of his profession. tie is therefore st*-11 deserting of the
distinction conferred riuon him by the Directors, which, if
ht wants a-stimulus, oral we hope,'only terse to stimulate
him to renewed exertion, and to more saccifssful toils. This
picture was at Somerset liouselast year, and is therefore
known to the public; it has since been much improved. Most
of the heads are good, and there is no fault in the
of the figures. The colouring however is feeble and indiffer-
ent,and the expression in the conntenance of Mary in tolerable.
Her thinness of face and sharpness of nose almost throw
a degree of ridicule over the whole.eanvas. This Might,
perhaps, be remedied by retonching_ the shadow in
this i,art, if not Mr. IlmreN mast absolUtely be-
stow upon the Magdalene an entirely new countenance. We
would also :advise a little more attention to the finish
the extremities of his figures. Tlre:ifait of Christ is very
faulty.
No. IS. The Divercit;•,/f -raver-trite I; dinb. COMA NS
High as Mr. Collin's stands in our estimation, we do not remem-
ber any pietism of his which preferred stronger claims to
approbation than the present, in all that regards design, ma-
, nagement, execution, and effect. ' The Favourite Lamb has,
in our opinion, only one fault—a radical fault, •the choice of
the subject. The more the artist has succeeded in Making us
feel the truth of his pencil, the more do we lainent.thenanitul
nature of the enintion4 which this unfortunate choice in,
voices. Has he forced us to participate' in the sorrows of his
children about to he deprived of their innocent companion-
-are we even interested in the fate of the object of so much
tender solicitude—insomucb are we displeased with the
• painter who could thus excite, only to grieve-the heart. The
story b admirably told. The mother of a large family, with
an infant in her arms, is receiving front a butcher the price
of the lamb, A. little girl dings, oiling, to her clothes. On
the other side the butcher's boy, with a rope hi his hand, ad-
vances to seize the lamb, and I§ fiercely ,opposed by a child
about four or five years of age. Another boy, a. little older,
has clasped the favourite round its neck, and exhibits all the
agonies of the most poignant grief. A third, kneeling before
it, offers food to the unconscious victim—mid the last•of the
groupe, thrpwn finely into shade, iS endeavouring to attract
the attention of his fellows, and pointout a way' to escape, and
snatch the lamb from its fate. There is great feeling- in the
whole touching. of the scene. • Tenderness predominates-in
in every line, and the artist has must happily avoided
rit-Ydn the portraiture of the two butehers.an error into which
he might very readily have fallen, and which would bave de-
stroyed the merit of his stork. The colouring is natural, sim-
ple, and chaste—and we have again only one thing to regret,
the want of compassion in his soul who could-thus doom mi
charming an assemblage to stand for ever a monument of un-
merited suffering, without a hope of their prayers and tears
availing to restore them to happiness and pleasure.
• (To be continued.)

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