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London, England, 1804-05-07 00:00:00

Rona ACADEMr.

EXHIBITION, IBoa.
On Monday, at twelve o'clock, the Exhibition at
this School of Art opened according to annual cut-
tom, and was immediately crowded 'with genteel
vifitors.—As usual it abounds with portraits, fomc of
thefe, however, are of a very fuperior order.—The
hiftorical attempts are but few,neither are there many
good landfcapec.
The piftures which engage the molt attention are
the Prefident's Agar and Iflonael ; Phaeton ',Ailing the
Direllion of the Chariot the Ann ; and Venus lamenting
the death of Adonis ; Welt:ars Henry fll. replying to the
Bilhops' Demand of a Reformation in the State ; Opie's pic-
ture from Gil Bias ; Lawrence's portraits of Mrs. Sid-
dons and Mr.Kemble ; Farringdon's View of Edinburgh ;
Turner's Sea Piece; Shoe's portraitof the Earl of Moira;
Beechy's Gill Gathering SiuUs ; Loutherbourg's Ava-
tanche; Thompti!p'uShipwreci'dSailor ; Owen's Beggars;
Daniel's View of Cape Comae-in ; Hoppner's portrait
of MO Lho/monde/ty; and tome others which that'
have more particular notice hereafter. The general
arrangement of the piftures this year is not very cre-
ditable ;either to the judgment or the tette of the
Hanging Committee.
No. 6.—11e&.--Ain*. BE ECH EY, R. A.—This is
a well conceived and correftly drawn pi pure ; but
the Rile of colouring is varied from that which dif-
tinguifbes the belt portraits of the artift. A diet of
neltar and ambrofia, he perhaps thinks, gives an ex•
ternal hue which &lb and blood can never attain.
No. .12.-4 Lamape.-1. FARRINGDON, IL A.—
We are happy to fee the works of this able painter
again occupy a diftinguifhed [pace on the walls of the
Academy. This is a molt beautiful landfcape, pot. 'I
feffing a fine breadth of light and fhade,•and exhibit-
ing a tone of colouring, which may literally be Paid to
put his furrounding competitors to the bier. As this,
however, is not the artift's belt pifture, we (hall pats
it over with no other than thefe general obfervatioras.
s7.—Portrait of Mrs. C. Thelluffon and Child.— •
T.. LAWRENCE, R.A.—Thisis a very pleating groupe,
ana, as we underßand, the portraits are good like-
neffes; but the pifture altogether offends the eye of
cbafte criticism, by that meretricious glitter which
diainguifhes the works of the new fchonl.—How un-
like
the decent grandeur of that of which the late Pre-
lident was the head !—but things will have their day !
23. Henry the Third Reproving the Bilbops.—R.
Weszazt, R. A.—The companion of this pifture is
rather teme,.but otherwife the defign is good, and
the Rory is well told; throughout the whole, how-
ever, we trace too ftrong a similarity to former
works of the fame painter.—The face of the King
does not abound in exprellion.
28. The Lord's Supper; a Siereb.—B. WEST, R. A.
—This is the original defign of the great pifture in
the Collegiate Chutch, Windfor, and is in itself a
molt admirable produftion. We have often had oc-
' cation to obferve of Mr. Weft's Sketches, that they
are in general fuperior to his finifhed piftures, and
perhaps in no one inftance was the obfervation more
true than in that before us. As a compofition it is
a perfeft Rudy, which, any attempt to finint, would
have robbed of its chief excellence, namely, its mas-
terly freedom of outline.
17. Portrait of bimfe/f.—Same artift.—Rego et Rex
netus.—Here we have a laboured attempt at the like-
nefs of the Preldent, from his own pencil, with a
bull of his Majefty in the back ground !—Of this pic-
ture altogether. though cleanly coloured, we are for-
ry we cannot give a very favourable report.
30. The Dijirultion of the Bee, tic. in the Apocalypfe.
B. Wasv, R. A. The Prefident has difplayed much
fancy in the defign and cotnpofition of this pifture ;
it partakes, however, in tome parts, rather too much
of the ludicrous, and there are not wanting thole who
give it a political conftruftion, not very flattering to
the Monarchical and Eceleliallical Eftablifhments of
Europe at the prefent crifis—but, joking apart, it is
a good pianre of the kind.
42. View near grusapore, bufw.—T. DANIEL,
R. A.—lnferior to the generality of Mr. Daniel's
India landfcapes, both in refpc9 to drawing and co.
louring ; we take it for granted, however, that the
view is corral. It was perhaps a work of haße.
sq. The Drowned Sailor.—S. DRUllll4OllO.—The
introduftion of a dead body. as the principal objeft of
a pifture, is difgußing ; in that before us, there is
nothing auxiliat yto heighten the interefi. The at-
' companying figures want exprellion.
61. Tie Mi.'4 Girl—C. CRANIII.I.—A promifing
fpecimen of the art—the produftion of a young pain-
ter, who has ripen rapidly into notice within the :aft
two years ; we have, however, to caution him again ft
the adoption of any of the gaudy minners of what are
called the &Womble artins of the day as alio ro
avoid attempting to produce any extraordinary..ffeCts
of light and Ihade.
71. Gil Bias taking the K(7, from Dame Leonora in the
Cavern.—J. One, R. A.—A very fine pifture, par-
ticularly the face of the old woman, which we have
no doubt is a portrait that we (tall hereafter fee over
and over again: the diftribution of the artificial light
through the different receffes of the Cavern is happily
managed, and produftive of a very powerful effeft.
9D. The Rofrristias Cavern.—H. Fussm, R. A.—
It is really aftonifhing that a man of Mr. Final's
great abilities should think such a produftion as this
deferring public exhibition. Had it been fent by any
other than a Royal Academician, it never could hays
gained adminion : and, what makes us more angry—
he has fent nothing elk !
t to. Portrait of Mr. Kemtle—T. LAWRIIN Cl, R. A.
—A fine !decocts ; but we do not much approve the
attitude of the figure. The artift has made a bold at-
tempt at fore•flortening, in which he has not EOM.
pleatly fucceeded. The drawing is not Rriftly correft ;
but the general effeft of the pifture is vety good.
103. Landfcape.—Sis F. Bousoloi,, R. A.—The
only pifture by Sir Franci, in the Exhibition. i! is a
pleating produCtior, firongly marked with the manner
of the artill, but livening nothing of fuperior excel-
lence. It is to() glittering.
150. A Summer Evening—P.l. Dt Lour HEREnultat
R.A.—We are f. charmed in general by the produc-
tions of Mr. De Loutherbnurg's magic pencil, that it
is with pain we fubmit to the neceffity rat making any
observations not according with that grateful feeling.
The fiery afped (.1 the holizcin of this pi9,lre re-
fembles snore the glare of conflagtatian than the ghisir
of " parting day," giving tot metallic an arocar ince
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