The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-05 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY.

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After the Royal Visitors had retired yester-
day the Amateurs and Patrons of Art, and the
fashionable world, were admitted to a private
view. • Although pictures in the high style of
history are scanty in this display, .yet the Exhi-
bition will be far
.more entertuining.to the public
than those of several years .past, on account of .the
great number of fancy and humorous composi-
tions. Comic painting and low comedy in parti-
cular, will here be seen- in the highest state of
• perfection. There are also some noble Land-
scapes, which cannot fail of delighting every eye.
The principal pictures of the Exhibition are the
following :7
Sir THOMAS LAwar.NcE, R.A., has Portraits of her Royal
Highness the late Princess Charlotte—of the Marquess of Lon-
donderry-of Visconntess PollinFton and child—of Lady
Lambton—of the. late Benjamin West„:Esq..•President
'of the ROYal, academy—of .Mrs'. H. Baring and Children—of
Sir Humphrey Davy, -President of the Royal Society, &c.—
of James Palmer, Esq. Treasurer of Christ's Hospital.
s•komutp, ILA., has The Vintage—Sancho Panza re-
lating to his Master, Don Quixote, the reception and converse-
tioif hd had with Duleinea ; and Shakspeare's Characters—FaL.
staff, As you like it, Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth.
H..THomsoN, R.A. exhibits, Bed Time.
D. WILKIE, has.Newsmongers, and Guess my Name.
• • W. MIT LREADY: R.A., exhibits the CareleSs Messenger de-
tected, a picture full of humOun • •
HowARD,-R.A., Cottage Scene.; Sabrena from Milton,
and the House of Morpheus, from the famous description by
SPENCEU, besides a Portrait.

, A. W. i-.3Aicovr, I.A. a large Landscape; the subject,
Dover from the Sea, a squally day. . •
IV. R.. BEGG, R.A., presents to public inspection, the
Cradle, or, a present from the Grandmother. '
W. CoLyiNs-, R.A., has a Scene in Borrowdale, Cumber-
land ; Morning on the coast of Kent, and Dartmouth, Devon.
• J. Nowiliccri.., R.A., exhibits the Burial of Edward V.
and his Brother, the Duke of York, who were murdered in the
Tower of..Lonclon by order of Richard lll.—;'Tie Marriage of
the Duke of York, brother of Edward V. to the Lady Anne
Mowbray—Young•DaVid.keeping his Father's Flock, &c.
H..FIISELI, R.A. presents a subject similar to the. story of
Orestes,the Furies in pursuit of Alcmreon, who has murdered
his' mother Eriphyle ; Prometheus delivered by Hercules ; and
.halm?", a sketch.

Sir BEECHEi has a FOrtrait of a Lady in the character
of Spenser's llna ; Portraits of the Earl of Aylesbury, Hugh
Leicester, Esq., and " the Bird's Nest."
%V Ow EX, Esq. R,A. has contributed a Portrait of the Earl
of Pembroke, and of Collmgwood Selby, Esq.
T. PHILLIPS, Esq. R.A. hay Portraits of the Right Hon.
Sir W. Grant, late Master of the Rolls ; of Lady Harriet Drum-
mond and Children ; D. Ricardo, Esq. M.P. ; Hon: J. Aber-
cromby, Esq. i%i.P. ; Mrs. Fitzgerald, &c.
M. A. SITEE' A. exhibits Portraits of G. W. Taylor, Esq.
31. P.; of Mrs. Wanton Taylor; Miss Campbell; Edw. Tunno,
Esq. &.c. • , , •
'J.• JAC s os, R. A. has Portraits of Miss Wilson, of Drury-
lane 'Theatre ; Mr. Macready, in the character of Macbeth ;
J. Northeote, Esq.; Earl Grey, &c.
R. R. REINAGLE, A. exhibits a Scene from nature, Mid-
day—Portrait of a Gentleman.
J. Wimp, R. A. a Hunter, the property of Edm. Yeales,
Esq.—Portrait of a favourite Spaniel belonging to Earl Powis.
H. RAEBURN R. A. Portraits of the 31arquess of Bute,
Earl Compton, Sir John Hay, &c.
J. CONSTABLE, A., has Hampstead Heath—a Shower,
Harrow—Landscape, Noon. •
A. E. Cum..ox, R.A.—Lc Billett--Portrait of the Duchess
of Hamilton; &c.

G. ARNAXTLD, A.--The Battle of Naseby—Seene on Wood-
side.

J. DANIELL, R.-A.,—The Sacred Temple of the Hindoos—
The Ruins of an Hindoo Temple, East Indies.
A. COOPER, R.A., displays the heroic conduct of Cromwell
at the Battle of Marston Moor.
There is a great number of clever portraits by artists whO are
not members. Some.of the best of the fancy subjects are
May' Day, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by C. R. Leslie;
Vertunmus and Pomona, by Mrs. Ansley; Gipsey Scene,
Hampstead, C. Cranmer ; The Drunken Smith, W. Hide ;
Romeo and 'Juliet, 11. P. Briggs ' • Cleopatra's Arrival in
Ciliciai,W. Elty ; Lock and Key, G. Clint ; The Green Room,
W., Sharp ; A Mother and. Child, W. Long ; Le Malade
linc.ginaire, by F. V. Hurlstone ; Impertinent Puppies dis-
.missed_by a Monkey, E. Landseer • The Widow's Sons res-
cued from Slavery, by the Prophet klisha, H. P. Bone ; Poor
Relations, F. P. Stephauoff:
Mrs. TOPE, whose talents in her line are superior to competi-
tion, has four beautiful drawings in this Exhibition, viz. :—Two
large Groups,. varieties of Roses, one of them contained in an
Etruscan Vase, drawn at the British Museum from one of the
finest of Sir Wm. Hamilton's collection ; the other in a Roman
one. An extraordinary large Cockscomb, done for the Horti-
cultural Society; and a small Tree of the double Sasanqua
Camellia.

Among the principal works of sculpture submitted this year
to public inspection, are Busts of Sir 'Walter Scott, Bart., of
'W. Wordsworth, Esq., of the Marquis of Londonderry, and
the Bishop of Rochester, by F. CHANTREY' R.A. ; Cedalon
and Amelia, a marble groupe ; and a model for the intended
Statue of West, Esq. late President of the Royal Academy,
by C. Rossi, R.A., and a Bust of Miss Wilson, by W.
BEHNES.