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which I remember ? too * weH «* e * to forget eteir in its ' shttfeir . Leslrc bmr »* trullir £ r introduced to the Queta of BrriMtigteg / which I think a wretched failure , with the exception of the Court Dwarf , which is perfect . A landscape , by Constable , railed' 4 he * Valley Farm , looks damaged all over , as if it had been danced upon by hob-nailed shoes . Harry of Newmarkkt . W—e mentioned this to me , but accounted for it by saying , that the picture had the c * nr-po > x . Angus . How fine a contrast you find in ArnakTs * Coast of Brighton by Moonlight / compared with these eccentricities ! Has atty body noticed J . Linnel ' s ' Scripture Piece / No . 199 , in the Great Room ?
Mb s * Albion . I thought it a fine study from the old masters . j iAfl » G ^»» fiJer seems to hare had a right notion of the thing . " Mrs . Albion . What do you think of the * Antiquary jxfcfed ^ At ^ GU s . That the artist did not appreciate what fee had'xl&ie It is a misnomer . A ruined poet , or half-starved metaphysician is what ; be has ! painted . No antiquary ever had so fine a $ tecut . Mrs * Albion . Do you likeBriggs ' s portraits of Mrs . Jamfcton Mrs .- Austin , and Charles Kemble ? - /
A ^ ca / Sk Yes , very much : indeed I almost always like Briggs . Mrs . Albion . I was particularly struck with No . 387 , ptonted by an : ' honorary exhibiter / and called ' The Bride of Lamr oOi ilmir . * Angus . I think his conception of the scene does Mr . Mantagtie hig h ; and tragic honour , if one may so speak . The womkn is painted too flat and Chinese-like ; but her attitude , situation , fend expression , show a mind capable of superior things . The position of the murdered man is awfully true to nature and ' the passkfrk of the pteee / It reminded me of the way in which the old Italian novelists deal with such subjects . - - - Mrs . Albion . Coeur de Leon , how did you like the tricture
of your ancestor , and the sol dan Saladin who personates * ; Ae Arabian physician ? Cceur t > B Leon . I thought Richard very fine , but I confess the noble Saladin did not strike me . : * ^ AnoUs . The fact is > the artist has missed his mark . Instead of giving Saladin in the disguise of an Arabian phvsieia !* , he has
literally made him the unconcerned physician . But King Richard is nobly executed . Cceur de Lkon . But M'Clise , —you have said nothing of M'Olise ? Angus . He has spoilt a fine picture b y putting a doll ' s face in steel armour as the principal figure . Ivimp&rte ! I ran tttakfo *
stand his own comment on the matter in that very urnluestidtiable face a little at the hack , who is half unsheathing- his Wadefcas hfc looks with powerful resentment at the tall « , whiskemi bitty ifrffttta the ladies of quality (?) admire for bein ^ s iool ^ h * b th ^ ristf ^ Mu M < vliae never coukl hare mada this mutalw . Th * Affair £ * twr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/9/
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