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

The Institute of Painters in Water Cololl'

Otherwise—as we still like to term them—the New
Society, makes a goodly show again in its alwaYs
attractive suite of apartments in 53, Pall-Mall, where
for the present season 316 Works of Art are (count-
ing those both on walls and screens) exhibited.
Seventy-seven exhibitors contribute these 316 pic-
tures, so that none among them can be said to have
been very industrious. Almost upon the threshold
some sprays of lilac (3), by Mrs. Mary Margetts,
catch us by the button-hole, as it were,—we were
nearly going to say, hold us with their mastering
olour, like the lilacs of Watt Waltman. Se ilk,'
are they to reality. A larger and more ambitious
theme, however, a theme chose: from human
life, not from merely vegetable existence,
lures us oa a little further with its instantly
visible grace, sweetness, tenderness. Henry Tidey's
(10) " Jeanie Morrison," that is the " dear, dear
Jeanie Morrison" of the homely, charming
verse of Motherwell. Nothing can bi more be'
witching than those young childish forms and
faces—the unconscious prettiness, of the little girl,
the rapt attention of the boy-lover. C. Green,
if he does not take us into his owe room at the
theatre, carries us instantly (presto ! at a glance)
" behind the scenes" in his large and cleverly drawn
picture (36) of " The First Bouquet"—a picture
safe, we should imagine, to be engraved. Tll°
Clown of the Christmas Pantomime is in the act
of handing her First Bouquet to the little cat
dancer, who is accepting it shyly—the manager ob-
servant of the incident, good-naturedly but care-
lessly, by a look over his shoulder. Harlequin, a,
little stage imp in red, a ballet girl, and one of
those horrid supper-room swells, or gents, as they
were called in the days of Albert Smith, `with
divers other kindred figures true to life, 13231‘:
up the rest of the spectacle behind the gewgaw
scenes of a much less real spectacle in which
majority of them are actors. Edward IL Corbould °
(53) " Salotne Dancing before Herod" is radiantly
and voluptuously painted, the one all-absorbing °,
traction of the picture being the form of the datigir
ter of Herodias. Augustus Bouvier, who contri-
butes four sketches to the gallery this year, reveal°
to us in (96) " The Token," about the best of thenl:3
For expression we know nothing finer in tlie
whole collection than Guido Bach's (213) " Avf
illaria"—a prayerful face, the remembrance It
which has a tender haunting beauty of its own•
lovely pastoral perspective is opened up to view in t'
very centre of Edmund G. Warren's (231) " Chi
;
ing Pastures"--a painter whose sylvan scene (24
sis
entitled " The Children of the Forest, has a nn
rare excellence of its kind. Here, again, as in the
Old Society's Gallery, the screens are deserving
especial examination. And no wonder, for alGlet;
the treasures, there, will be found a sketch (301),r
Rosa Bonheur, and one by Millais (304)—togotuii
with H. G. Hine's (309) marvellohs view of e'.rog
morning in a back street in London—not forget°,
Andrew C. Gow's (283) " Looking to his Arel_;,
an admirable study, after the manner of Meisonn,lb'st
though having nothing whatever of course of t
wonderful artist's microscopical minuteness.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, acc°li.;
panied the Hen. Mrs. Stonor, visited Alfred Pu1°,5,1,
unique establishment (Jraison Sans Rival©, 86,
street), on Tues4ay last, making several purchases •
his recherché collection of fancy boxes and bonbous•
The violoncello of Herr Maximilian Bohrer, tturt_
renowned German player, was sold the other day, at S
gart, to an amateur at Frankfort for 4,000 f.
Mr. Leys, the eminent Belgian painter, i 5 °
visit to this country. fh t
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