The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

EXHIBITION OP WORKS BY Mol:4ll2\A4*- 7'4 F:

We resume our notice of the pictures.
101. " Study of Beech Trees." J. WILSON, jun., Lon-
don.—This chews the artist to be a close observer of nature.
The trunk of the principal tree is cleverly painted.
102. " Ruins' with Twilight Effect." W. HAVELL.—A
good picture. The sunset golden and warm ; the scene a
calm, and not a leaf stirred by the sleepy breeze.
108. " Portrait of the late Earl of Durham." R. DALZIL,
London.—An excellent likeness of the late Pro-Grand Mas-
ter of England. Our masonic brethren will greatly esteem
this clever work of art, which is already familiar to them,
having been engraved.
111. " Mother and Sleeping Child." G.FATTEN, A.R.A.,
London.—Mr. Patten might have appended to this the su-
stition, that when a child smiles in its sleep, the angels
There is nothing new, nor anything
very clever, in this production of Prince Albert's painter in
ordinary. The idea has been done over and over again,
and immeasurably better, by the old masters. The subject
of the picture consists of a curly flaxen-headed child, with a
smile on its lips, watched over by " an anxious mother,"
possessing a very pretty fair face. The fleshing is clear, and
of a good tone.
114. " Fording a Brook." T. S. COPPER.---" Sold
again," as the cant phrase is ; and a charming picture the
purchaser has to adorn his dwelling.
118. "An English Interior." J. F. MARSHALL, Liver-
pool.—A clever picture, vigorously drawn, and well coloured.
123. " City of Dijon." 1-IEnomAN, Liverpool.—A boldly
dashed off, bright sketch.
" Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties." R. FAR-
RIER, Chelsea.—A humorous subject, cleverly worked out.
Two boys, one of whom we may suppose to be the post-
office carrier, are discovered prying into a letter, which has
been abstracted from the letter-bag. A dog is assisting the
juveniles in their " pursuit of knowledge," by gnawing a
hole in the official wallet. The expression of the faces is
uncommonly good.—A picture not unlike this is familiar to
the public, under the title of the " Twopenny Postoffice,"
wherein the fat postmistress and her servant are perceived
examining the letters very narrowly while under the sorting

POSTOFFICE-PLACL ROOM

are whispering to it

operation.
142. " Landscape, with Cattle." WILSON, jun.—Ano•
ther clever picture by this artist. It is marked with the
pleasing word " sold.
147. " Dolly Varden and Miss Haredale." W. P. FRITH,
London.—This picture represents Dolly Varden as so capi-
tally introduced to us by Mr. Dickens in Barnaby Budge,
searching for Miss Haredale's letter. Mr. Frith has caught
the spirit of Mr. Dickens' charming character of Dolly
Varden most admirably. She is the plumpest, archest,
wickedest-looking little minx ever seen.
153. " Lane Scene." H. JUTSUM, London.—A pleasant
picture, with an air of warm repose about it : a farm-house,
a gate, and bank, with trees and herbage—just such as may
be seen in every English county, with a summer sun over
our heads.
157. " Cattle Reposing." T. S. COOPER.—A capital pic-
ture.

170. "An Irish Market Day." H. MAcMANUS, London.
—Gives us a good idea of the subject.
177. " Blighted Love." W. S. P. HENDERSON, Henley-
on-Thames.—lt is really surprising an artist can waste time
in such lackadaisical rubbish.
180. " Earl of Sefton and Party returning from Grouse
Shooting." R. AN SDELL, Liverpool.—Mr. Ansdeß is an
artist of uncommon talent. There is a firmness in his touch,
a vigour in drawing, and a clearness in tone, that render
whatever pictures come from his easel popular and pleasing.
His likenesses are inimitable. In the present instance he has
most happily hit off the countenances of the noble family the
subjects of his handy work. There is truth, nature, and
reality in all Mr. Ansdell's paintings.
" Portrait of H. R. H. the Prince Albert." G. PATTEN,
A.R.A.—Here he is, ladies, the luckiest of a lucky race—the
real fortunate youth. if this be a true portrait, English air
and English diet appear to have agreed with his royal high-
ness uncommonly.
181. " Going Out with the Keeper." C. BARBER, Li-
verpool."—This work is by the President of the Liverpool
Academy. It certainly stands per se, as it is without doubt
the worst painting in the exhibition. The bow-wows are
portraits of some in the possession of Mr. Eastee, our next
door neighbour, only his animals look the most natural.
185. " Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and the Clown
carousing in the house of Olivia." F. P. STEPHANOEF, Lon-
don .—A capital picture ; full of jollity and mirth, and cleverly
worked up; the expression of the faces and figures excellent.
Maria is charmingly painted.
191 " Poor Law Guardians. Board Day. Application for
Bread."—C. W. Core. Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore.
—We give the artist's name and address of this capital pic-
ture at length, in the hope that he may meet with encourage-
ment, for he possesses undoubted talent, and a " grace be-
yond the reach of art." The scene represents a board day
at a union workhouse. The guardians are assembled, and a
poor widow and her children are applying for relief. Every
one of the characters in the scene are admirably brought out,
and expressed with a vigour, breadth, and truth that must
make an impression on the mind of the most callous. At
the head of the table is the mild, gentlemanly-looking chair-
man ; near him a pursy tradesman. inspecting a basin of soup,
brought by the officious " master ;" there the clergyman
asking questions of the applicant; close to him sits a hard-
hearted, grasping, tyrannical, brutish-looking fellow,—a
thorough-going radical we will be bound—who would give
stones instead of bread. In the foreground, a benevolent old
gentleman, with his hand in his purse, melting with charity—
touched with sympathy at the tale of distress. Beside the
fire, sits indolently and apathetically, paring his nails, the
idler of the village, termed " a gentleman," from having " no
useful calling. Before the fire. with outspread tails, in a
shooting coat, stands the squire, his countenance ruddy with
good living and plenty of exercise. On the other side of the
table is a deaf, farmer-looking person, to whom the matter
going forward is commuicated by a friend through an ear-
tube. The beadle stands looking very fierce by the door.
The poor widow, and her pretty, forlorn-looking children,
occupy the foreground. A dog, issuing from under the table,
is inspecting them with no kind interest. There are other
matters, which make this clever picture complete. The ex-
pression of the faces is inimitably rendered, the colouring ex-
cellent, and the moral unquestionable, while the subject is
interesting and full of pathos. It is as well worth the atten-
tion of the visitor as any picture in the room.
195. " Indianian Riding Out a Gale." S. WALTERS, Li-
verpool.—A good little picture ; very spiritedly painted.
198. " Poor Nell." P. WESTCOTT, Liverpool.—The tone
of colour good, but the true expression of the text given has
not been caught by the artist.