British Sculpture.—A Visit To The Studios.

plementary figures . It was first intended that in this monument the principal figure should be that of the Queen ; but after the decease of the lamented Prince , it was the command of Her Majesty that the statue of Prince Albert should be substibuted . By permission of the Queen , Mr . Durham is about to erect at Guernsey a replica of this figure , also in bronze , the model for

which has been sent to Birmingham to be cast . By the same artist there is a work in mixed relief , intended for Madras , the subject being an ordination of natives by the late Bishop , who is in the act of delivering the Bible to them . Mr . Durham's statue of Alastor is now being rapidly advanced , and will shortly be cast . The bust of the Princess of Wales , by Mrs .

Thornycroft , differs from all the photographs we have seen of Her Royal Highness . The features and contour meet in a great degree the heroic ideal of the artists of the German and Northern schools , with the substitution of placid dignity for severity . The sculptor has evidently intended that her work should convey impressions not yet communicated by other portraitswith more thought

, , yet with all the sweetness of the best . The bust , an engraving of which , as our readers have been made aware , is being prepared for the Art Journal , is simple , and entirely without ornament . The hair is turned back from the brow , and the only indication of drapery is a

fold or two of bhe dress where the bust terminates , with a sprig of oak bearing leaves and an acorn . Mrs . Thornycroft is busied also with two statues for tbe Houses of Parliament , those of James I . and Charles I ., with large monuments , and other works . The ornamentation ofthe Consistory Chapel ( St . Paul's ) was entrusted , it may be remembered , to two

artists—Mr . W . 0 . Marshall and Mr . Woodington ; and the sculptures ( bas-reliefs ) are supplementary to the tomb of the Duke of Wellington . The subjects are "Peace" and " War , " the latter of which was treated by AVoodington , who chose for his theme the meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek , the former offering to tbe latter a portion of the spoils of his victory . But as these works demand

a special notice , it is our purpose to describe them in their places . Mr . Foley ' s statue of the late Sir Charles Barry , for the Houses of Parliament , is nearly ready for casting in plaster . Tho subject is seated , and he holds before him , in his left hand , a sketch of bhe Vicboria Tower , bhe effecb of which ho is considering . The drajDery—a loose morning

wrappei- —is that which Sir Charles Barry usually wore in the morning . The statue of the late Lord Elpbinstone , for India , is cast , and in readiness for the marble . By desire of the subscribers , the draping is a peer ' s robe . In the same studio there is also "the finished model of a

statue of Mr . Fielden , for Todmorden ; and one advancing in marble for Bombay , that of Manochjee Messerwanjee , a Parsee , held in so much esteem during life , that the public of Bombay has commissioned a statue to his memory . A statue of the Rev . Theobald Mathew , for Cork , also approaches completion . Mr . Woolner is about to commence a series of statues

for the Assize Courts , at Manchester ; they are to be thirteen in number , and are to represent as many of the principal lawgivers of the world , beginning with Moses , who , in a small first sketch , appears descending with the tables , and in anger at the idolatry of the Israelites . This statue will be ten feet high , and is to be placed at an elevation of ninety feet from the ground . There is

also in Mr . Woolner ' s studio a statue of the late Prince Consort , for Oxford ; and a bust of Mr . Tennyson , tbe poet—for , we believe , Australia . Macdowell ' s statue of Lord Plunket , like Foley ' s statue of Goldsmith , is an example of what can de done in the sculptural quasinude—that is to say , bhe figures have what are called dress-coabs , waisbcoats , and continuations , bub are entirely devoid of line or fold of complimenbary drapery—a simplicity most difficult to deal with . The statue of John Hunter , by Weekes , will perhaps

be in the Academy ; as also , perhaps , bis bust of Benjamin Brodie—bobh of which are to be placed in the College of Surgeons . Mr . Weekes received the commission for the Hunter statue a year or two ago , and it was the desire ot the committee that it should be modelled from Reynold ' s portrait , engraved , we believe , by Sharp . Indeed , this was one of the best authorities left ; and accepting that

as the identical John Hunter , bhe resemblance is perfecb . Sir Joshua ' s John Hunter is an elevation of the man , so is Weeke ' s ; but although Reynolds had the living man before him , it is yet probable that in the statue there is more individuality than in the portraib . Mr . Theed is working at a figure of William IV ., intended to be placed in the Royal Gallery in the House

of Lords , near the entrance from the Prince's Chamber , to which a pendant will be supplied in a statue of George IV ., intended for the other end of the room . Between these works , and on the walls of this room , will be seen Maclise ' s magnificent paintings in sbereochromy , of which " The Meeting between Wellington and Blucher ab La Belle Alliance" is finished . Besides

theseMr-, , Theed is engaged on a figure of Sir William Peel , for Calcutta , and on a stabue of the late Prince Consort in the Highland dress ; he has also completed a bust of the Queen , which has been tinted by Mr . Gibson-For the decoration of the Mansion House , the execution of a sbabue of Prince Alfred was assigned to Mr . Stephens . It is completedand the artisttrue to the

, , popular admiration of Alfred in adversity in preferenceto Alfred in regal state , presents him as a simple Saxon . Mr . Stephens has also in progress a statue of Lord Fortescue , and another of the Duke of Bedford , both for Exeter .

Mr . Lough is engaged on a statue of Sir Humphrey Davy , for Penzance ; and a statue of the late Lord Herbert , by Baron Marochetti , will be erected at Salisbury . Mr . Noble has , in different states of advancement , a colossal statue of the late Prince Consort wearing the robes of the Garter , for Manchester ; for Leeds another

statue of the Prince ; and a third for Salford , which will be 10 feet high , and robed as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge ; also a statue of Lord Eglinton . for the town of Ayr ; a recumbent statue of the late Bishop Carr , first Bishop of Bombay ; a recumbent figure of the late Archbishop of York ; a bust of bhe labe Earl de-Grey ; a busb of bhe late General Bruceand other

im-, portant works . Mr . W . C . Marshall ' s bas-reliefs for the tomb of the Duke of Wellington are now being fixed in bheir places in Sb . Paul ' s . As ib will be our duty bo describe them when in situ , and under the lighb in which bhey will hereafter be seen , we do no more here bhan sbate the fact of their completion . Mr . Marshall , it may be

remembered , received a commission for a statue of Sir G . Grey , for the Cape ; this , a colossal figure , in Sicilian marble , is in a state of forwardness . Others , by the same artisb , are " Undine , " " The Expulsion , " " Ophelia , " & c . Some of these may be known to the public ; all are treated with happy simpliciby , bub in each the subject speaks out at once . Thus , in Mr . Marshall ' s works ,

there is a large proportion of the ideal ; but it will be observed bhab in some cases above mentioned the subjects are almost exclusively monumental , while in others they are of mixed character . Those on which Mr . John Bell is engaged are also , forbhe greater part , ideal and poetic . Mr . Bell's " Eagle-Slayer " has been , we believe , cast in metal , and he baa

recently completed it , full size in marble , for Lord Fitzwilliam ; aud for the same nobleman a marble statue of Lalage , in which there is a sentiment deeper than the merely dulce ridentem and dulce loquentem . Entitled " The Star of Betbelem , " the delicate flower of that name helping the story , is a child—the allusion at once apparenb—sleeping in an open basket cradle . This little figure is all but finished , and another figure of a child