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EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.

Before proceeding to a detailed notice of the present
exhibition, we must explain that we shall not feel our-
selves compelled to follow either the order of merit or artlf
other definite course. The most satisfactory mode, to
ourselves at all events, is to refer to each painting in the
order in which it may have happened to attract us in our
various visits. We make this explanation that we may
not be charged with wilful neglect of any portion of the
contributors.

No. 23 is a picture in three compartments, by P. F.
Poole, A. The subjects are from the tempest, and are
treated with great skill. The colouring is transparent
and delicate ; and, in the centre compartment especially,
the sleeping figures are excellently painted. We object,
however, to the birds introduced, and especially to the
small one on the left, which destroys the balance of the
composition. There is sufficient colour in the picture
without adding to it their bright plumage. Near to this
picture we have
28. View in Ashbourne Forest, by C. Fielding, a de-
lightful picture, which we are glad to observe has been
sold. The foreground is elaborately painted. The avenue
of gnarled monarchs of the forest is beautifully managed ;
and the broad expanse of the Weld of Sussex, and the
South Downs, with the hills just distinguishable in the
distant horizon, is very clever. The picture is just such
a one as would refresh the most wearied denizen of the busy
town, and its monotonous pursuits, to look, upon for five
minutes a day, as a pleasant sedative.
40. An Armoury. by Stephanoff, is an excellent little
specimen of his peculiar class of subjects.
46. A scene from the Lady of the Lake, by A.
Johnson, we Lave already stated to be the production for
which the prize has been awarded. The subject is a scene
taken from the second canto of the Lady of the Lake, in
which Rboderick Dhu has just proposed for the hand of
Ellen, the daughter of the outlawed Douglas ; and that
chieftain is interfering to prevent a threatened rencontre
between the rejected suitor and his favoured rival, Mal-
colm Grteme,

" But Douglas rose
And thrust between the struggling foes.
Nis giant strength: 'Chieftains forego!
I hold the first, who strikes, my foe;
;Madmen forbear your frantic jar, •
What I is the Douglas fallen so far.
His daughter's hand is doomed the spoil
Of such dishonourable broil?'
Sullen and slowly they unclasp,
And struck with shame their desperate grasp;
And each upon his rival stared,
With foot advanced and blade half bared."

The centre is occupied by the two rivals. between whom
is interposed the commanding form of the Douglas. Hang-
ing upon the arm of Rhoderick is the Lady Margaret, his
mother. and aunt of Ellen Douglas ; and on the left is the
Lady of the Lake herself, with two attendant maidens.
In a bay window in the back ground is the old harper,
Allan Bane, an excellent figure. The composition as a
whole is very striking and animated, and contains some
very clever painting. To one or two portions, however,
we conceive that objections may be urged. The fleshing
of the female faces is not excellent, and the shadows
rather course. The figures. too, are a little more muscular
than generally characterises the fair sex. Ellen Douglas,
for example, scarcely bears out the description of the
poet :

" And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A nymph, naiad, or a grace,
Of finer form, or loviier face."
The painter has represented her as anything but such an
etherial being as we have been thus led to imagine her.
V. 188. Mozart's Last Moments, by H. N, O'Neil.—
We notice this picture next, because it is one of the same
class of subjects as the prize picture, and we have heard
some comparison drawn between their respective merits.
The subject is an incident in the life of 111ozart, given by
his biographer, Holmes :—" At two o'clock on the same
day, which was that of his death, he had been visited by
some theatrical performers, his friends. The ruling pas-
sion was now strongly exemplified. He desired the score
of the requiem to be brought, and it was sung by his vi-
sitors around his bed, himself taking the alto part. They
bad proceeded as far as the first bars of the Lachrymosa,
when Mozart was seized with a violent fit of weeping, and
the score was laid aside." The grouping is very good,
and the painting throughout of a finished and first-rate
character. The fleshing is perfect, especially of the two
females, his wife and sister. The head of the former is
very fine. The details—the draperies and costumes—are
perfect. The two figures in the centre, however, displease
the eye and taste. The stolid individual, who is still sing-
ing on, unmindful of everything, apparently, except his
own sweet voice and the score before him, whilst the at-
tention of every other person in the room is fixed on the
dying composer, is a blot upon the picture. The counte-
nance of the right hand figure in the foreground, too, is
wanting in dignity. As a whole, however, Mr. O'Neill
has added greatly to his reputation by this production ;
an l we would point particularly to his flesh painting in
comparison with that in the prize picture.
96. The interview of the Apostate Shaxton, Bishop
of Salisbury. with Anne Askew in prison, by W. L.
Windus, is one of the most striking pictures in the ex-
hibition. Mr. Windus is known as a very promising
young artist, and a townsman ; and has added here very
greatly to his previous high reputation. The subject is an
incident from the " Life and times of Thomas Cranmer."
in the meantime, Shaxton, unable to withstand the
prospect of being burned, recanted his heretical opinions.
He was then admitted to an interview with Anne, for the
purpose of p2rsuading her to do as he had done. She re-
. plied, " death can come but once; but he who lives in in-
famy dies a slow death before the fire of his own con-
science. Oh, my lord, it were good for you if you had
never been .born." The attenuated figure of the im-
prisoned woman, with her pallid features expressive of
resignation mingled with sorrow for the backsliding of her
visitor, is very finely conceived, and the expression of the
latter, as he bends over the couch, his piercing gaze
through the dim light of the dungeon fixed upon her
face, is powerfully painted. The only other figures
are those of the two attendant gaolers, savage-looking
villains enough, who aid greatly the impressiveness of the
scene. The dusky atmosphere of the dungeon is cleverly
managed, and throws into striking prominence the prin-
cipal figure—the prisoner. We may hint, as a little un-
natural, the eye of Anne Claxton, which, it strikes us,
the artist, in endeavouring to convey the idea of pain, has
distorted too much. We congratulate Mr. Windus upon
the production of a work of such great merit.
105. Henry V., when Prince of Wales, believing the
King to be dead, takes the Crown from the cushion.
J. C. Horsley. This large picture, from one of the
frescoes exhibited at Westminster-hall, is very clever.
The figure of the Prince is noble—just what we should
have imagined the fne hearted Harry. The treatment
and colouring are very fine.
142. The Coming Sh wer. W. H. Deverell, Jun.,
. is one of the few bad pictures in the exhibition. A more
meaningless daub was never perpetrated.
203. The Stable Yard. W. Huggins.—This artist,
who is one of our native school, has always pleased us by
his animal painting. lie has been very successful in this
little picture. The gray horse, in the centre, is excellently
painted. Another portrait of a dog, 206, is very clever.
280. Hebe. D. W. Deane, is very coarse. Mr. Deane
should never attempt a naked figure again.
213. A Bacchante. B. Norbury,—equally coarse, and
quite out of drawing.
330. Christ Walking on the Sea. B. S. Lauder.—
A striking picture. The treatment is highly poetical and
clever. The figure of the Saviour, alone amid the waste
of waters, is majestic ; and the effect of the solitary ray
of light thrown down to illumine his footsteps, is beauti-
fully conceived and managed. There is in the picture no
apparent effort. It contains, in fact, only a figure and an
effect. Yet a sermon might be written upon it, so sug-
gestive is it throughout of devotional and sublime thought.
We are reminded, in the light which streams down upon
the form of the man of sorrows, of the power of the father
present with him in the solitude, and supporting him upon
the unstable element.
317. Lock and Mill, at Shiplake, on the Thames. E.
Williams, sen.
318. A quiet Spot—North Wales. H. J. Boddington.
—The hanging committee have placed these two pictures,
which are both of the same size, most judiciously together,
as if to suggest the idea of their being a pair. They pre-
sent a most striking contrast. Mr. Williams' picture is a
night scene, the darkness of which is slightly relieved by
the moon, which is just rising over the horizon, whilst
the old mill and the figures in the foreground are all
brought out by the light of a lantern. The effect of the
double light is very cleverly managed. Mr. Boddington's
picture gives a vast expance of mountain landscape, in
which

" Winding glens the swelling mountains close,
And stillness casts around its deep repose.
Here seems the lament of the world to cease,
And all is solitude and all is peace.*
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And now the sun behind those heights descends,
And wide o'er all the lengthening shades extends ;
Yet, far as eye can sketch, yon summit gleams
With the wild radiance of the setting beams."
The effect is beautiful, and such as no one who has not
seen a sunset upon the mountains, when Autumn has
embrowned their summits, can imagine. The warmth of
tone which Mr. Boddington has given to his mountain
ridges is delicious.
180. The Village Green, H. M. Anthony.—The group-
ing of this large picture is very skilfully managed, and it
is replete with incident. The rustic beau and belle danc-
ing ; the delighted look of the rosy-faced old dame who
is looking on ; the envious looks of some of the more
youthful spectators, and the flirtations going on here and
there, are very cleverly given ; and the colourin,, through-
out is very rich. Altogether this is one of the greatest
paintings in the exhibition.
There are throughout the rooms a large number of un-
assuming pictures, which display great talent, although
not requiring particular description in a first notice of the
exhibition. We may instance a few. 45, " Derwent
Water," b Mr. Apsland—a sweet painting; 147, " The
Dead Kid," by A. Cooper, R.A.,—a nice little piece ;
181, " Night in the Meadows," R. Shirley ; 288, " Emi-
grants going to Embark"—a sketch by J. Leitter ; 432,
" The Cottage Pet"—a very sweet little pet too—by E. A.
Gifford ; 416, " The Washing Place, coast of France,"
W. Lee ; " The Brook," a clever sketch, by H. C.
Pidgeon, &c. Some of the water colours are well deserv-
ing of notice ; but we have now exhausted our space.

A sermon in behalf of the Liverpool Church of England
School Society, was preached ak St. Peter's Church on
Sunday morning last, by the Rev. Henry 11. Higgins.
The sum of £9 2s. 3d. was collected, a considerable por-
tion of which was the contribution of the poor who occupy
the free seats.
HAnvitsr operations have been further retarded in the
north of England by theoccasional showers of the past week,
which has greatly interfered with the labours of the rea-
pers ; and a large quantity of corn already cut, but not
yet fit, fo►t the stack, remains to be carried. In Ireland,
• Qa 'the -contrary, the weather has been fine throughout
the :week, and great progress has been made in securing
the portion of the harvest outstanding in late districts.

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