The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

THE AR7 JOUR.NAL.
Under the matured and able !editorsh.p o f Mr. S.
'• dull the Art Journal continues to maintain its
flinent reputation as tie principal organ in the
Foorld of art. Before us are now lying the numbers
_
August and September. If only for their splendid
ernbellishments they would be valuable. The picture
(4 Salvator," by Maclise, is characterised by much
It
the genius of that distinguished Academician. tell • t -
th 4 It 3 story in a glance—Rosa in the apartment_ ofs
Jew Picture-dealer offering him one o
1,433,n4thful productions. " The Fisherman's Wife,
Paul Falconer Poole, is among the most
felicitous, if it be not one of the most ambitious of the
of this eminent artist. Those who are familiarbi
Nsvith his powers, simply through the medium of
vixitlroordinary painting of the "Plague of London,
ere Defoe's immortal history is realised upon thefr
tver4s, and the fanaticism of Solomon Eagle is
Zthassociated with the awful devastation. of 1665,
ro
, ugh his noble prize painting exhibited in West •
th'nster
will be somewhat amazed at the grace,
Pree ,-,a,"lre, and the bewitching simplicity of thei
of \-',4 Composition. As the Art Journal remarks
stocr; Poole, there is scarcely any other in-
sox.ire,in the history of English art of a painter
lilt -I°N' suddenly into a wide-spread reputation,
ab that
We
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of the artist we have mentioned. " e
do al. be much disappointed," says the writer, " f we
achiet greater things than any he has yet
is 'el. " The Cherry Seller," by W. Collins,
rural scene taken from the orivinal in the col-
ectio
now n " Sir Robert Peel. " The Intruder," if fori.
(1-I,ng else than being a specimen of the abilities o
ioteWlo Landseer at sixteen years of age, would be
ress,sting• From the broken pipe to the sparrow
trap •'"e barn-door, from the rat in the rat-
spittin. the broken cart-wheel, from the cat
the lug forth the whole venom of her rage, to
is fulls' ) ready to leap upon his antagonist, the picture
clever of nature. The dog alone is wonderfully
Mon- • J. Roberts has engraved in a very masterly
" from an original picture by C. L. Eastlake
thi,"e latest Portrait of Napoleon." The history of
V. Portrait is one certain to excite curiosity,
lak:rlli' been roughly sketched from life by East-
two. 0 1815 in an open boat lying amidst a
tonfirn of others under the bows of the Belle-
To our thinking, the portrait is altogether
rrler,t, 11 37 of the subject and of the artist, who has
eiao- en acquired celebrity as a Royal Academi-
reco le features are with one exception scarcely
eeeiog,nfiable, and the chief point of resemblance
that-
of '0 be in the costume—the face being more like
apnatrer,4,fat lubberly boy than of the glorious man
nruised by Byron in his renowned couplet—
Reaven,-of Which he was in form a featurn,l
th -,Earth, of which he was a noble creature I
Wake
as about in his open boat, we certainly thinka
him ie'f-respect, not to say vanity, must have drivenbe
tero,,r°,4l the deck into his cabin. Still it must
obte.""ered, in extenuation, as the Art Journal itself
sorr'ves, that the artist was "sketching in a boat
fro:unded by crowds, and at a considerable distance
to loollcis object." At the least the picture is curious
eissus 1113°o, and is beautifully engraved. " Nar-
tr°lll the original statue by Bacon, is,
be tar)or, thinking, the
hideous. If the statue
the zsot hide
itself we would certainly recommend
must in to prosecute the engraver for libel. We
Union-Injustice make particular allusion to the Art-
are j designs for domestic purposes, some of which
tea. xquisite. Among these—the teaspoons with the
handle . twining up the stem, strengthening the
eltlste wlth its stalks, and bossing the top with a
ju., r °I. tea-blossoms and leaves—the water-
yntoPresenting the transformation of Syrinx
Itteci reeds
the bowl of the jug being deco-
jug ado bulrushes and lotus-lilies—the beer-
twinettirrned with bunches of hops, and a handle
brush- about with wheat ears—the back of a hair-
a Nobor hand-mirror pourtraying a mermaid " with
hair of Pearl, on a throne of gold, combing her
et it
taper candlestick, the card case, the ink-
oftheA i.t e fire irons, Sze. Besides the foregoing,
.`"'t Journal contains many other embellishments
superior merit.

TURNER'S HEIDELBERG.
Our, n impression of this noble engraving by T. A.
lifl taken from the celebrated picture of " The
..v"vil and Castle of Heidelberg," by J. M. N.
1-41 r, is lying before us for consideration. When
.
Re beta
is one of
the
ivra called the fact to recollection that this
t most splendid productions of this wonderful painter
of la
elo ndscaPes, we have pronounced an eulogium more
I
Tient than could be written even in the enraptured.
44,0P,uage of the Oxford Graduate. The atmospheric
tilltanees, the refractions of air and water, the cirrus,
,le rainbow, the half-hidden mountains the glimmer-
IN. roofs of the town, all have been copied by the
Al:aver with an accuracy very little short of the
kuriteulous. Even 1-1. Boniton, the printer, deserves

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