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btea&ty they can find * the rooms iat this : hoiifc have a cold , imgenial aspect , whose vacancy renders the unsympathising and business-like appearance of the individuals you omeetstalking about / far too prominent and obvious , nor can you yourself efijoy without being subject to observation andother disturbing influences .
On entering the east-room , the first picture on which we 1 set our hearts' was the ' Raffaeile and Fornarina ? by Callcott . The figures are the size of life , and are painted with a divine mastery , worthy of the memory of Raffaelle , whose heart would heave in the grave on the birth of such a chronicle of
its feelings , had he not long since joined his celestial companions and * old familiar gods' above . The figure of RafFaeUe is full of grace , and exquisitely combines elegance with unaffected simplicity . His countenance expresses the serene sweetness of affection ^ conscious of full return , and drawing fresh feeling from that consciousness . A corresponding sensibility pervades
all the limbs . In the portraiture of Fornarina , the painter has given a depth of character and an intellectual refinement which are not manifest in the original , though proceeding from the pencil of her lover . With passive form , and down-cast eyes , shadowed by their own beauty , she sits apparently intent on the work her fingers are plying , but well knowing with secret
and sweet satisfaction that the gaze of tenderness , with all its recollections and present emotions , is fixed upon her face . Overall , the soft southern air seems to breathe a warm sustained sigh of completed bliss , beyond hope or fear ' s emotion , while these lovers sit in their bower , with the clear blue tone antf serene brightness of a pure Italian sky , above them and around . We may sav with Keats : —
" She cannot fade—For ever wilt thou love , and she be fair ! Oh , happy , happy boughs ! that cannot shed Your leaves , nor ever bid the Spring adieu ; More happy love ! For ever warm and still to be enjoy d ; For ever panting and for ever young . "
Mr Edwin Landseer is not only the finest painter of animals ( combining also many other excellencies ) of modern times ; he is , in his way , the finest that has ever appeared . He is by no means so dramatic as was Schneiders , nor have his animals fcuch a field and forest look , discoloured with earth and rains , and
the rubbing against old trunks . LandseerVare all / fit to fee seen . ' He gives the high-comedy of their lifej and they Pfe all thinking animals , full of character and finished to a Jiair Schneiders gives their actions and savage passions ; their love »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/59/
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