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84. 11frry.-1. Ho, PN ER, R. A.—Ncr. Hoppner
is an artio of great taler.:s, but this is furcly a
firange proditaion. We know not what is meant
by the title Mary," but that of Moll would cer-
tainty be more appropriate. If the painter limply
int,mded treating us with a portrait of a cinder-
winch, or a female convia in Newgate, why not fay
In in the catak,rue ? otherwife if the pk'lure is in.
tended as a velucic of profelfit:nal ridicule, it falls
upon himfelf.
viz. A Tyro. front Nature--G. GARRARD, A.
.—Mr. Garrard is the bell painter of animal nature
of the prefent day, and we afcribe his correanefs
to his having lately devoted much of his time to
modelling after the life. He does not, however,
improve much in colouring.
.p 9. Margaret of Alias, &c.—R. WESTALL, R.
A.—A very fine drawing of this Princefs with her
fon, at the point of time when fhe was nearly pe.
tithing from hanger after the battle of Hexham.
The defign is altogether dignified, the exprellion
mot! interefting, and the general eifed very vivid,
but the. drapery has rather too fculptured an air
pearance.
278. A Maild Gartkistet litudr.j. BURGESS.
—The obvious effeas of common nature are here
produced in fuck a manner as manifeft that the
artift paints with a cornea eye. This is all the
'praife that is due to him, and all perhaps that he
expects at prefent : be may deferve more wheri he
comes to confider painting as fomething more than
a mere handicraft bufineft._ _ _ .

346.-155. Portrait: of Mr. Fox and Lord Hol.
SMI TN. Crayonpieures and admirable
likene es of both Uncle and Nephew; the co-
louring of the faces is, however rather, as the
painters fay, fourtehy ; but conflicting the Cub-
jeas this is no great defea.
447- Portray of Mill B. Afourgt.—A very good
likenefs of a very meritorious young performer.—
The :min has hien perfealy futcefsful in catching
::re Rep of the celebrated hornpipe in which Mils
Menage is fo hapyy.
4tP. aor cowl/4 Pantie L31.--R. WE STA IL,
R. A.—There is a fublime ferenity of afpeCt in
the face of the principal figure of this groupe ; but
the Poet is not reprefented blind. The drawing of
the whole defign is Very corred, and the colonnng
brilliant. We do not, however, alt.igether approve
of the coftunse of the drapery, particularly of the
female figures.
556. df Frame scit3 Drawings.—J. Nixon, H.
gentleman has, on former occalions, pro-
duced defigns of conliderable humour. In the rub-
jeds before us, we fee nothing but an attempt to
give " local habitation and name'lto feveral of the
monfirofities and horrors of modern German ro-
mance. It is not very creditable to the tafte of a
man of pilkorial talent to make chace of fuch fub-.
ices ; but perhaps the whole is Tome bookfeller's
Job.
373. Satterrantax Gssinv.—An ar•
chitettural defign of conGderable fancy; but as
no fuch eredion is ever likely to be made, we know
not to what ore the drawing. can be applied, un-
Ids, perhaps, as the decoration of the tinge of a
-Theatre in aid of fame horrid drama of German
origin.
670. Portrait: of nitre Theatrical Cbarafters.-.--S.
DE WlLDS.—Thefe are MetFes. H. Joitsisros,
F*WCETT, SIMMONS, FARLEY, and COOKE ; and
Mesdames H. Joninvo4,Lircnrissa,
and DAVENPORT. They ale painted in a very
animated Rile, but rather with a grey hue of co-
louring. The heft likeneffes are thole of Simmons,
FAILLE T,MTI. I.I7EIOIIRLO, and M: DAVENPORT,
Mr. Da Wts,nl is not very fuccefsful in delineat-
ing female beauty.
few obit& which principally take our at-
tention in the Model Academy are the following :
Mr. FLAXMAH exhibits a very fine defign for a
monument to Capt. Montague, who fell in the
glorious anion of the 4tb of June, 1794. We mull
wait, however, till the artift has finithed his work
to fpeak of its particular merit. The prefent pro-
du/lion is no more than a (ketch.
A defign fofa public building, forming four na-
tional galleries, adapted to receive painting and
fculpture' by L. NV, Wyarr manifefis much of
the finefamily vale of the architeet. Mr. Wravv,
the academician, is not himielf an exhibitor.
A model of foliage by EcIST EI m, and another
of a dog by the fame artift, are highly creditable
to his talents as a correa abferver of the minutia of
nature.

A lion's head, by Mr. BACOV, is a Very mailer-
ly piece of fculpture.
One of the moil dignified defigas of the prefent
Tear. is the model of the monument now ereaing
in St. Paul's Cathedral to-the niemory of Captain
Burgers, who was killed in the memorable battle
of Camperdown, by Mr. Bangs.
Several baffo relicros, by the younger WESTMA•
corr, are particularly deferring of notice.
The glory of her mother and her babe, by Pail-
%arra. a defign after the Greek.text of Archlas.
though conceived with (kill, is more fuitable to the
labour of the painter than the fculptor. This
artilt's Britifh Mars is a produaion which attaches
great credit to his talents
Mrs. &Dooms, as an Honorary Exhibitor,_ has
Produces! what the calls " a bun of Adam," from
Milton's defeription. It is a corral model of a
head, but in refpea to exptetfioa, it is theatrically
common place.
The bull of the late Duke of Bedford, by Not..
sr rims is a fine likenefs, and a very foblime head:
his sketch of the Graces is alto a beautiful produc-
tion. His naval officer expiring in the arms of Vic-
tory will make a very interelling monument. The
bull of Mr. Fox, by this will. is a parka refem-
blance of the ditlinguilbed original
The architeauraT defigns, in rural, are 11th
as will be viewed without much interell, as the
majority of them arc not likely to be adopted either
by the nation or individuals they mark, howe-
ver, upon the whole, the talle of the country as in
a gradual Rate of improvemenf.• The Britilh
fculpturc k certainly more ettiasable than that of
any other retool in Europe at presto. Painiing,
herlsapss stay be coafuletcd u flatioaary.