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Fine Arts.
FINE ARTS .
AS the works of elegant art are become the objects of such fashionable attention , and as the English School of Painting is now raised to so exalted a situation as to rank with the most celebrated in Europe , we think it incumbent upon us occasionally to mark the progress of the Pencil or the Graver , and to comment with candour upon the various , efforts which distinguish the
enterprising spirit and taste of our country—The History of England merits and is receiving all the accumulation of talents , and Mr . BOWYER with a laudable ambition has made an honourable progress in the task . The Pictures painted for this work by Messrs . WEST and SMIRKE , deserve particularly the encomium they have received . — The Pardon pronounced upon
King John , is a chaste composition , and finely coloured in the Venetian style , and reflects the hi ghest honour upon the President—as the work proceeds , we shall . pay due attention to it . There arc few instances which do more credit to the commendable spirit of an individual , than the . transplanting the Beauties of the Ditsseldorf Gallery to this CountrybMessrsVand RGREEN
, y . . . , and to _ better Engravers than Mr . GREEN and those connected with him , they could not possibly have been consigned . The Descentfrom the Cross , by RUBENS , JS most excellently engraved ; the spirit , energy , and effect of that great master is preserved upon
the copper with the greatest fidelity and science ; and among the various other specimens which have appeared we have reason to congratulate the Public upon so valuable an acquisition as this plan will evidently produce . Among the local subjects which have attracted the attention of the Artists , those recent splendid events in India , under the brave Cornwallisare the most conspicuous . —The Scene of the Royal
, Children leaving the Zenana , is one of the most interesting ever recorded , and is a warm appeal to the passions : The Introduction of the hostages to the Marquis—and afterwards the delivery of the Definitive Treaty , —form two very important and magnificent spectacles , enriched with such singular and ornamental incidents as very seldom occur in history . The account is accurately given by
Major -Dirom in his late Narrative of the War he has written , and forms three subjects from the Pencil of MATHER BROWN , Esq . and which are now engraving by Messrs . BARTOLOZZI and OKME . The centre Print is , by permission , to be dedicated to the King , who expressed much satisfaction when'the three Pictures were shewn to His Majesty at Buckingham Iiouse ' There are few Works which have such solid pretensions to . applause , as the edition of Thompson ' s Seasons , now publishing by TOMKINS , the favourite Pupil of that great , good , and amiable man , BARTOLOZZI .
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Fine Arts.
FINE ARTS .
AS the works of elegant art are become the objects of such fashionable attention , and as the English School of Painting is now raised to so exalted a situation as to rank with the most celebrated in Europe , we think it incumbent upon us occasionally to mark the progress of the Pencil or the Graver , and to comment with candour upon the various , efforts which distinguish the
enterprising spirit and taste of our country—The History of England merits and is receiving all the accumulation of talents , and Mr . BOWYER with a laudable ambition has made an honourable progress in the task . The Pictures painted for this work by Messrs . WEST and SMIRKE , deserve particularly the encomium they have received . — The Pardon pronounced upon
King John , is a chaste composition , and finely coloured in the Venetian style , and reflects the hi ghest honour upon the President—as the work proceeds , we shall . pay due attention to it . There arc few instances which do more credit to the commendable spirit of an individual , than the . transplanting the Beauties of the Ditsseldorf Gallery to this CountrybMessrsVand RGREEN
, y . . . , and to _ better Engravers than Mr . GREEN and those connected with him , they could not possibly have been consigned . The Descentfrom the Cross , by RUBENS , JS most excellently engraved ; the spirit , energy , and effect of that great master is preserved upon
the copper with the greatest fidelity and science ; and among the various other specimens which have appeared we have reason to congratulate the Public upon so valuable an acquisition as this plan will evidently produce . Among the local subjects which have attracted the attention of the Artists , those recent splendid events in India , under the brave Cornwallisare the most conspicuous . —The Scene of the Royal
, Children leaving the Zenana , is one of the most interesting ever recorded , and is a warm appeal to the passions : The Introduction of the hostages to the Marquis—and afterwards the delivery of the Definitive Treaty , —form two very important and magnificent spectacles , enriched with such singular and ornamental incidents as very seldom occur in history . The account is accurately given by
Major -Dirom in his late Narrative of the War he has written , and forms three subjects from the Pencil of MATHER BROWN , Esq . and which are now engraving by Messrs . BARTOLOZZI and OKME . The centre Print is , by permission , to be dedicated to the King , who expressed much satisfaction when'the three Pictures were shewn to His Majesty at Buckingham Iiouse ' There are few Works which have such solid pretensions to . applause , as the edition of Thompson ' s Seasons , now publishing by TOMKINS , the favourite Pupil of that great , good , and amiable man , BARTOLOZZI .