The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

LIVING MODELS.

(From the Art Uni;.)
. As all artists employed in the delineation of the hum am
figure must, more or less, require the assistance of liviug
models, I beg leave to recommend to your notice the
names, qualifications, and addresses, of some of th
most useful now in the profession • trusting, at the same
time, that other artists will take the same trouble in for-
warding to the Art-Union any infonnation -upon
this most important accompagnement de Pail her.
For almost faultless proportion, I should reaomn ,end
Mrs. Dobson, of 21, Great .Titchtie/d -street ; MisS
Glover, 38, Great Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn• fields, at-out
seventeen years of age—a very good face, and nrich
finer figure, fair, with dark-brown hair. Miss Neale,
same address us Miss Glover—a very handsou, e
1.-. tee, and, like her companion, sits for the figure-
-3,4 Lakeman the most beautiful face Leslie
ever painted was a faithful portrait of this;
model. . Her residence is at 6, Peashall•place, Cam--
'rime, Edgware-road. Margaret Welsh, an_
bridge-t
hisi, pea, Int girl from the hills of St.-Giles's, dark hair,.
and wid -Leal illi!asian features." Her cabin is at 21,
Soutbamptoi,-court, Fitzroy-sqaure. Mrs. Musgrove, a.
very interestinj and piquante-looking brunette. The last
time I heard of her address it was 9, Hanover-street.,
Long-acre, living :with Mrs. Grubin. Mrs. Howard, 4,
Eaton-lane, North Pilmlico, a Siddonian figurer good for
your tyrannical and sanguinary-minded heroin( vs. There
are several other female models whose addressk ‘s I have
lost. For instance, Miss Clonsley, Miss Tuffield,. Misses
• Johnston and 'Lancaster. And there is a family ,•>f chil-
dren who sit ; their addresses could be obtained from
Mrs. Dobson, or, I believe, of the Life Academy -, St.
Martin's-lane.

First on the list of male models, for strength and
muscular development, stands George Glenny ; I 3liculd
compare him with the Dancing Fawn, having al the
youth and elasticity of that figure ; he lives at 8, Den-
mark-street, Soho—when unemployed professionally, he
is to be seen personating a Red Indian at Catlin's Exhi-
bition, -Egyptian- Hall, Piccadilly. John Wilton, a:
Zummerzetshire man,' but with such a head, face,.
and beard, as would have rejoiced Salvator. This gen-
tleanan has for some years cultivated his mustachios
and his vegetables at. the same time (when he does not
sit, he' digs), of both of which he has a prolific crop. Sir
1). Wilkie, speaking of Wilton, said, " This man, Sir,
is a maist extraordinar model ; in face, he looks per-
feely= apostolical ;" but an artist from the " isle of the
west" said, `F Och ! he's the beau ideal of a rapparee."
Charles Lanli6er introduced his portrait as his " Tired
Huntsman ;'and liadise, as his "Little John ;" he lives
at 2, Short-street, Edgware-road. Signor Marchi. an.
Apollo like looking fellow, in high request ; he has had
the honour of sitting several times to Prince Albert ;
and if his Royal Highness does not know what a good
mea-zel is, who ..does ? His palazzo stands in Cross-
street, Hatton-garden, No. 25. R. Sims, a Scotsman,
of very a-reat age ; one of the most useful models that
could be laecommended ; very little idealization is ro-
quisite to paint a perfect head of Lear, from this..
venerable man ; Lis features are intelligent ; the head
bald ; hair white, Lind reaching to his shoulders ;
very long beard and mustachios ' - he has been but a
very short time in London, and before he was well
:known, met with a severe accident, being now in the
hospital with a broken arm, but he expee is to be out in
a week ; his address, 13, Hemming's-row, St. Martin's-
lane. Mr. China. , agood-looking man, biatween fifty
and sixty, bald-headed, grey hair ; 30, Chariton-sl-eet,
New-road. John Coulton, 3, Crawford-passaga, aerk-
enwell, a decayed landscape painter (vide one of Coye's
etchings produced at the Etching Society); an old man,
with long, dark grey hair. John Eness, of 6,. oia
Brook's-court, Fitzroy-passage, Fitzroy-market ; this
man is ninety-three years of age ! (the late Doueils
Cowper introduced his head as Brabantio, in his cele-
brated picture of " Othello," now in the possession e+E
the ''Marquis of Lansdowne); a most excellent model..
Emmet, 26, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, a.
modern Antinous, much in request; he sits very much
at the Royal Academy. M. Decour, a Frenchman of
enormous muscular power, from the hips upwards, (the,
lower extremities are deformed) ; he is a living pocket,
edition of the Farnesian Hercules : his address could be
obtained at the Royal Academy. Watson, 6, Church-
street, St. Giles, a man of 70, an excellent' :led patient
sitter. 4t_ any time, should other names occur to me, I
will do myself the honour of forwarding them to
.7,bie
I am, Sir, your humble:servanta •
A WORKING ARTICT.
[The above letter has been postponed for some time
for want of room.] • ,

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 3.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The, Carroll steam-vessel, Second-Master E. C. Rutter
act.) arrived at I'Vcoiwkli- on Satiiidav, from Plymouth,:
to have her .defects made good, andwill.leave,early ;leU•
week for Bermuda, where she will be employed as a tug,
The- Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander F.
• me,-alier Syer, arrived at Woolwich, on Tuesday,- from.
Shear,-•ss, having towed the Pique frgate, the flag-ship
of dmiral Sir Charles Adam, C. 8., from the latter
port k. `'
to Spit"d•
The ithiom.
with from Sheern..-'ss , nthus steam-vessel was towed to Wool-
on Wednesday by the Monkey and
.
African steatu-vessei:. The Rhadamanthus is to be
fitted up.aa,a...steam troopship, and Mr. Thomas Laen,
master of the Royal Sovereign, is appointed to command
bee, and Mr. W. H.. Bateman, clergy- in charge.
The Heroine; :10 gun brig, recently launched at Wool-
wich, was commissioned on Wednesday by Lieut. Thos.
D. Stewart, and; it is • said, 1611 be employed in tint
packet service. .
The, iren,:lG guns, is nearly complete.. Lieut. Tho-
mas Sibbald, has been appointed to her, vice Morris, to
the Harlequin, at Chatham. Mr. James Lairdhas been
appointed surgeon to the Siren.
The Volcano, steam-vessel was commissioned on Sa-
turday last, by Lieut. J. West.. and Mr. F. Gilbert has
been appointed clerk in charge.
The Avon steam-vmel, Lieutenant Charles 'retain,
has been appointed to command her, vice Pritohl.rd,
promoted.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Second Master Jr..
Ashton, promoted to the rank of master.
The Dasher steam-vessel, Second Master John Jarvis,
has been promoted to the rank of master, and appoimtcd
to command the Driver steam-vessel.at Portsmouth.
The Vixen steam•veszel has been commissioned sit
Chatham by Commander Henry Boyes, and Lieutenaa.lt
Buchanan, late mate of the Lightning, has been appoint(xt
to her.

FURTHER EXPERIMENTS WITH PERCUSSION SHEELS
AT WOOLWICH.—The Committee of Officers of the Royal.
Artillery appointed to watch the progress of the experi-
ments with percussion shells in the marshes at Woolwich
and report thereon, have, in the handsomest manner,
supplied, Mr. Reece with twelve new shells, and the
experiments with them will take place next week, but
the day has not yet been fixed. It is understood that
Mr. Napier will tire some of his shells on this occasion,
and from the experiments already made, it is evident
the shells invented by these gentlemen will succeed.

0 f February, OUR CA T 11-I
SE3I:S RIAv
eLi..i: e
r tietclk
our"LrinEal RofOttleNl4OthE
some beautiful verses under the abov title'
by a valued correspondent. Inquiry was
thenvt,de,ontrThuted
other
day, what had become of the little songster. which
:'or a
period of nine or ten years had taken up' '
within the sacred walls ; and the answer ^tab'
'de
of
elicited. Ole
following anecdote, far more worthy being perp(l-
- than many a record inscribed
on
h marble. Th(ei
bird has been missed from the ehm for,, some time,
and was supposed to have sought ac;cai
fields of air, as more congenial to bitshn t thee ambient
" cloistered dome ;" but on removing .4canretene,e
thea usritart_., h
two or three years ago, for the purpose of erecting the.
present handsome one of stone, the remains of the red-
breast were found behind it. Perhaps warned of al)"
preaching dissolution', having attained the venerable age
of some nine or ten summers, it had retired there for a
last tasting-place.
,From long enjoyment of security,
and a
, constant meal supplied, by its protector, ?Jr. Phil-
lips, the subsaerist, the bird had become so tonic that it.
was frequently seen perched on the choristers' deslc„
peering over their books, and seeming to rebuke with
grave look the merry smile ever ready to b righten ;
o r,
.up,
the face of boyhood, and which its presence excited
the chorus of
seated on a pinnacle of the ore-an, swelling
praise with the music of its own mellow pipe ; at other
times, stationed on the canopy of the PulPit', a ore
at-
tentive listener than many of sod's creatures, and more
deeply interested in the preacher's message. The re-
mains of the poor bird were deposited by a friendly hand.
in the precincts of the Cathedral, and Bobby has as yet
found no successor in his honours and immunitios.—
Bristol Journal.
THE CROPS.___DUI%IFRIES, AUGUST 30...—
Warm sunny blinks occurred at intervals during th a
greater part of thelast.week, accom;panied by starring;
breezes that speedily dried the blade ; but on the other
hand rain, more or less, fell every twenty-four hours-
In itlisdale, Annandale, and Galloway, a large brew twat
of grain is tit for the sickle; and, but for the weary--
rain, which ever and anon baulks the hopes of the far-
mer, harvest would be general over the whole south of
Scotland. Nemerous sales of growing crops are re-
ported, at some of which luxuriant oats, not severely
lodged, commanded el., let, and la per acre. But
these, of course, were top prices, and we believe from
71. to 81. will be found much nearer the general eve-.
rage. A field of wheat, about a mile froia town, which
at one time looked beautiful, became latterly so flat-
tened and rusted, that it was knocked down by public
roup at 4/. per dl more than the value of
straw of that iondescriptn standing erect in good condi-
tion.—Edinburgh Courant. ,
Filberts are unusually abundant. Fine fruit was
offered in our markets on Saturday at seven pence per
pound, which, at this time last year realised eighteen-
pence.—Kent _Thrall.
Immense quantities of mackarel have been taken
during the passing week off Portland Beach, and the
islanders are now busily eneaged in curing their winter
stock of this favourite iish.2Dorchester Journo 1.
A western editor, in speaking of vegetable won-
ders, says he heard the other day of a young lady v‘ ii,,,,
lips were so sweet that she dare not go into the garden
fur fear of bees.
An artist in New York, says the Mechanic,
painted an imitation of a bottle of spruce beer so natu-
rally, that the cork 'flew out before he could paint the
string to fasten it.