The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

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HER, MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 29.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Christian, drove out yesterday after-

noon.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise,
walked in the grounds this morning.
The other members of the Royal Family also
went out.

WATER COLOUR EXHIBITIONS.

The Old Society's Gallery.

By an unusual arrangement both the Old Society
at the East-end of Pall Mall (5), and the New
Society, or, as it prefers to call itself, the Institute
of Painters in Water Colours, at the West-
end of the same great thoroughfare (53), opened
each its Gallery on Saturday last to Private View,
instead of selecting, as they have hitherto done, two
distinct Saturdays for that purpose. In conse-
quence, on the double private-view day we had a
surfeit of good things in the way of these always
charming Water Colour Exhibitions—a department
of art in which England stands hitherto altogether
unrivalled. Seniores priores, and therefore first as
to the Old Society—now in the sixty-fourth year of
its existence, it having been instituted originally
as far back as 1804. Twenty-eight out of the
twenty-nine members, are this season among the
number of the Exhibitors—the only defaulter
among the members who fails for once to put in
an appearance, to our very great regret, being Mr.
T. W. Burton. There is but one picture contri-
buted by C. Haag, and there are as many as twenty
contributed by C. Smith—the least industrious and
the most industrious (numerically) among all the
Member-Exhibitors. Twenty-six out of the twenty-
seven Associates supply the walls with their contri-
butions—the one defaulter here being E. B. Jones•
Altogether there are close upon three hundred pie'
tures hung upon the walls and screens of the gallery,
297 in all, to be precise. John Gilbert, who sup-
plies half a dozen contributions, arrests our atom-

tion directly we have crossed the threshold by the
characteristic force and the thoughtful expres."
sion of (8) " Sans pear et sans reproche.
Friederick Taylor never pourtrayed a more ant'
mated scene than his (12) " Wild Fowl, a Flight
Winter," in which there is all the life and rustling
flutter of reality. For once forsaking his favourite
[risk cabin scenes, F. W. Topham takes us in (31)
and again in (116) to Spain and among the
Spaniards : the latter being an incident of tavern
life, a quarrel over a game of cards. C. Branwhite,
on his part, eschewing for once the snowy winter
time, reveals to us (35) " A Sunny Afternoon ih
November." G. Rosenberg's fruit (42) " Secondari
Colours," is barely successful. Whereas T. Larnonee
(57) "Return from Fairyland" affords as charming
a view of Kilmeny, as even that vouchsafed to us
through the verse of the Ettrick Shepherd. J•
1: Jenkins, in (69) " Laid up for the Night—on the
"names," surpasses himself : the picture has all
the hush of evening upon it. Carl llaag's one
contribution this year (110) is worthy of him--
.‘ The Bedowee's Devotion"—being a very re-
.narkable work of art, as the portraiture of all
oriental scene of the most vivid and impressive
character, though the sketch reveals no were
than the solitary figure of the Bedowee upon his
knees on a strip of carpet in the desert, hi
the side of his hampered camel. For light and
shadow out of doors, commend us to (153) J.
Burgess's fragmentary picture of the " Bishoie
Palace, Beauvais." From the truly execrable is
the portraiture of dramatic horror, we should like
to have been warned before coming to (178)
Griddle's " Lady Macbeth." R ,aling the
aelectel sentence upon the cataleguo—,, Out, out
larvae i spot"—we are almost fain to ad lees; the
.vords to the picture itself. It is, for all the world,
like a badly executed caricature. 1.) ac attention ought
to be paid by the visitor to the smaller, but, as a rule,
not lesser pictures displayed upon the screens, some
of them being gems in their way. Instance this:,
F. Sinallfield's (207) " First Rose of Summer,
Fred. Walker's (213) " Well Sinkers," H. B:ittan
Willis's (223) "In the Meadows, near Burnhain,,,
emerset," Birket Foeter'a (279) " The Donkey,
and others, which it would be unnecessary here to
particularize.