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/ Al » fcv Rretty \ ¥ ell **~ $ > i £ tty wteli for fefoheir » of yoilr ) >» ,. > : i r . : xJti&AUJkQCiL ; O'ToopE . I adtoire ^ thw - nobid cohsoierwei of the da&g&idrijit of Ckwish *—I made Jarvisi . ^ « v ? , - ; Maa » Atbiocn . Let us leave this idle theme . Father Zodiac , Speak , Angus , is there aught fresh in art ?
Angus . Not much . The Royal Acadefrny has always been rather too aristocratic an exhibition of frames . Btit there are a few fine pictures . Landseer has a Scene in the Grampia n */ as true to natural feeling as to the principles of art . He has given an expression to the faces , particularly those of two of the women , w&cIl Lawrence and his followers have never equalled / and ristrely approached . Wilkie has painted the story of ' Columbusdn ' the Cfonvec ^< afjl ^ a Kabida . ' The colouring is g rand , deep , and ' richi , land cannot be too much praised . It is equal to the old matt ersy arid is
a nn ^ 'lasaoa for « jt U mode rn stu dents . - < ;/ , . " . }«?/"
V ! ftfa $ « Alb * on . Do not you admire the expression of ? the faees ? { f f ^ GjqfL ? , Very much : but the features of Coltwnrbu s- \ wene ^ / ftt r finer , | 4 ^ n those Mr . Wilkie has chosen to ad opt , < The £ iwd&cfei \ e , iUntk ^ wn , mouth destroys the character of tfo ^ great ' niarii ( The ' Physician of Palos' is , however , all one could desire . I-know nbt when J have been so much charmed with a head . It makes / me
re ^ iiect , by force of contrast , that on the day of the private ^ ifew , fcf l ^ Mg ly Vi ^ or' looked over my shoulder , characteristically pro- ^ UQUJaci&gn summary , yet vague and dictatorially lamditive Vffriolict f ^ i (] t ^ performance a I instant , and then darting off . at an angle Uh&o the & * me by another . It was the Duke of Wellington . £ ? cbi ^ r E > E Leon . How can he be a judge of moral beauty ajid VOyiWS r
nfATHER Zodiac . It is impossible : the laws of nature , are against it . » t ; « •> : -, lf ^ K ^ U 8 w Turne r has some climacteric specimens of his eact rfiorcj ^ a ^^ fiewr of nature . His Keelmen , heaving Coals by Night ;' is fine for its colouring and wonderful effect of distance , but mdtWd b ^ / b j § substantial griming of lights in white chalk , or ithick plaister . His ' Brignt Stone of Honour' looks as if it liad been
jHSbllyiP ^ UWd ° ^ a warming-pan . He , however , out-rTurner ' s Xwxypv ' ifthi ^ semicircular , or double conflagration of the Houses O&Jb&tfo andComnion 8 . The four united nares ^^ -we can call it no less—amount to a monomaniasm in colouring . He has - c set the Tfe * p }*» g OB fire I * . Shamrock OToole . To be sure he has . That accounts for the
gr * ft $ BQioke that roee above Billingsgate next market morning . Aljl ^ M& on the stalls were sold ready boiled or fried * , i , f 4 jWW * f > < JfiUy has name fine designa , and specimens of rich colwriflg , ; fcMii U losing himself in meretricioue eccentricity . It is Wilwci ^ lly t <) , » fQ )§ u dh pbwers wasted . * * Bastlake I a } v ^ ay » liked , W ^ hn ^ j ^ awiatidciiy bu * his fboesare all of < me family , and wfrpf * mmwty instaotoe »> are ctvidrintW vwrietit * from one modidK
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/8/
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