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intelligible . Whatever deficiences Mr . M'Clise may have in art , there is no living English painter superior to him in genius , and very few are his equals . Look at the life and diversified individuality of all the other faces in the picture ! Miss Jukes . I have no patience with his faces . I very much admire Count D'Orsy clad cap-a-pie in steel ! He is a love of a man !
Mrs . Albion . Do you not think , Angus , there are some very charming miniatures ? Angus . Yes , a few ; particularly those of Barclay and Collen . Barclay ' s portrait of the Hon . Mrs . Trotter , and that of Dr , Southwood Smith by Miss M . Gillies , send all the others on that
side of the frame ( except Ross ' s * Mrs . D . Cunynghame ) far into empty shades . On the opposite side , the fine expression and substantiality of tone in the ' Portrait of a Moorish Lady really makes all the poor folks of the vicinity look as if they were done in coloured chalk and weak white-wash .
Mrs . Albion . Oh , you are too hard and cynical . Angus . Well , only go and look at them . You over-looked them when you went , and no wonder . But these are not the worst . The utter trash you will find elsewhere in this room , more than any other , is either a pointed insult to public taste , or the severest satire on the public want of taste that could be devised .
Mrs . Albion . But the sculpture , the sculpture ; how much I admired something there ! Aateus . Gibson ' s < Sleeping Shepherd Boy' you mean , no doubt ? Mrs . Albion . Yes ; it is one of the most charming things I ever saw . How seldom we see such an expression in the face of
any piece of sculpture ! Do not frown , for I include even the antique . ' Angus . Did I , or was I going to look black at the remark ? I ought rather to have sighed . It certainly is an exquisitelywrdught face ; and the hands , too—remember the hands ! Mrs . Albion . Did you like Baily ' s group ?
Angus . I think Baily a fine sculptor , but I prefer this Shepherd Boy to anything I have seen this many a-year in the exhibition . The public seemed most attracted by the Part of a Monument in which a dying gentleman is seated on a sofa beneath a worked counterpane , and in a marble frock-coat ! I don ' t kuow if . the figure kneeling by his side is an angel , or his daughter , or his niece , the ideal is so utterly confounded with the matter of foot I
Ccbur dk Leon . While we are on the subject of the fine arts , did you me that letter in the ' Times * newspaper on the subject of Mr . Arwoki , of the New English Opera-house , declaring , that 'he nwer would , tinder any circumstances , set the example of paying apmpm&th for their writs / btcaua * ' ho could procure foreign scores for £ 4 or £ 5 ?'
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971 Dies sub Ceefo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/10/
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