The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION,

On Saturday last we availed ourselves of an invitation to
attend the private view of the works of art now exhibiting
in Post-office-place.
From the accounts we have seen in the London papers,
and what we have heard from friendly sources, we candidly
admit that we went to the rooms with a misgiving as to the
merit of the works upon the walls. We had understood that
the London Art Unions had completely cleared off all the
good pictures, and that nothing but canvas and paint,
without talent or taste, were left for us to look at. We were
never more agreeably mistaken in our presentiments, and it
is passing, we think, no small compliment upon Mr. Egling-
ton, jun. to say, that there has not been so good an exhibi-
tion for years past as the present, whether we regard it in
point of quality or interest of the subjects of the different
works. We cannot but give the new secretary credit for his
perseverance and taste in the gathering, although the num-
ber of works does not reach the usual amount. Nevertheless
there are between five and six hundred paintings, a few
being of a high class in modern art, many very good, a
sprinkling of mediocre quality, and but very few really bad.
In fact, the good pictures predominate, and the difficulty has
been where to place them all prominently. In the water
colour department there are some charming specimens. The
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miniatures are few. The portraits are not so numerous as
usual—amongst them two or three are very conspicuous,
one by Patten, of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, is decidedly the
best ever taken of the rev. gentleman, and another of our
contemporary Mr. Bean, who looks on the canvas as shrewd
and knowing as he does in propria persona. The interiors,
depicting scenes of humour and pathos,
M'Clise has only one
are very numerous.
There are many exquisite landscapes.
picture—his imitators many. In the sculpture room there
are more subjects than usual. This apartment is so un-
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We have but small hopes in any " accaderny." Academies
of art have done little or nothing to advance painting. The
art-unions will, in our opinion, effect more in a few• years
than all the academies ever attempted. These associations
cannot prove beneficial in every way. An eminent
painter, failfo for
o
whose opinion we have a high esteem, once con.
versing with
tus on the subject, objected to art-unions as.
being likely to encourage cheap pictures. We met them
objections by affirming that they would encourage, rather,
high-priced works. Of this we are more than ever con.

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for help and directions—not to :men, sinful and ignorant
in themselves ' • and he quoted various passages from Scrip-
ture in proof of his position, and showing that all man-
kind wire called to read and judge for, themselves in
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