New-York tribune., 1870-05-30

dreadfuy bad picture which, il it be the true one,
does no credit TO royalty, but doubt # 1t can
be true that Sir Edwin painted as badly as ne couid
to punish his royal patron for beating him down III
his prices. The English people have the reputation
of being most devotedly loyal aud dare say they
are but there is the most extraordinary coil1c!lo ~
stories atoat about both the Queen and the fIince OF
Wales that ever heard in loyal country III Is re-
ally true that you hear far less scandal III Ils ao
the Emperor and the Empress than You 90 III hhg
land about the Queen for scandal is scandal even If
ii leave untouched what we call virtue anu eA-
pendS itself in small talk about meanneSs, stlngihess
beerdrinking and ill-temper. But, though DO not
believe anv of these tales about the Queen, whose
faults have no doubt are much fewer than ner VII
tues the evidence of her bad taste In art ana OIL mel
inability TO its real interests are too clear 10 be
This picture by Landsecr with the portraits Of the
Young Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice,
nainted for the Queen by SAINT, between which 1t
hangs show well enough that these artists have not
thought it worth their while to do their best and
the same may he said of Messrs. COrbould and
Weigall, who have painted other pictures for the
Prince and Princess of Wales and for the Queen,
which are as bad they can possibly be-so bad,
especially the portraits Of the Prince and Princess by
Wcigall, that the British public has been seen
laughing IN the faces Of those presentments OF
august royalty.
The Exhibition of this year is deficient both in
works of imagination, popularity understood ana Ill
historical subjects Landscape fares better, and there
a few noticeable and two or three remarkable
works of this kind Mr.. Edward William Cooks
pictures of shipping would be altogether admirable
if they were not little too clean-lOobng, and as 1t
is they are so beautifully drawn to make rather
think this defect charm, for we can follow ms INES
everywhere, and we are pleased TO follow them
There is a very strong picture by +. walker called
"The Plow," which is perhaps as worthy q landscape
as the exhibition contains certainly such if one does
not count Mr.. Brett's magnificent "Clarc, Ireland
the Wind going down with the Sum-" a landscape
but seascape which it really is Mr.. Walkers pc
ture is too large for what he has put into IT, ana ts
seems to result from his not knowing how to
treat things in large way, for there is en9neh
in his subject TO have made grand picture IN !ul
ner's hands. But Mr. Walkers picture is one tlat
suggests cutting up into smaller ones; TINS tnat,
and the other portion is fine; We should IKE IKE
to have it in frame by itself. OF course, really
fine composition we could not dissect III TINS way
Still n0w-a-days It's something to have picture
that is fine even in parts. Let us be grel1l accord
ingly Mr.. Brett's large picture, of winch l have
given the title is the most beautiful painting Oh
water | have ever SEEN IL does not look rs strong
ms il really is at first sight for the decacy the al
most too great delicacy. of the color But the draw
ING of the water the lines of the waves OF the eddleS
and of the withdrawing breakers is so satisfying, Ill
its exquisitey varied and multitudinOus beauty,
that one who loves and knows the sea can only ENJOY
| do not believe it was ever so painted before.
Next week Twill take up the Exhibition III earnest,
which is impossible to do after only two days study
of ii. &C.