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THE KXHU 1 ITIOS OF THE SOCIKTY OF BRITISH ARTISTS , SVFFOI . K-STRKKT , PAl , ! . MALIi . The private view of this exhibition takes place this dav , and will be found much stronger than usual in . landscape and domestic subjects . As the word ¦' "improvement" may be considered supercilious , we will only go so far as to say that several leading men have been felicitous in their choice of scenes and subjects , ami -that many of
andbeautiful ; and while the hundred sympathisers appreciate and admire , the million are apt to pass him by , or linger but to smile . These Conway rocks , with their cranky holes . Corners , and curves ^ worn into ba sins by the ceaseless whirl of boulder stones , have given Mr . Pettitt a subject after his own heart . lie has first got down into aiv almost inaccessible gully , where painter , easel , and all ^ must be in hourly danger of being flooded . He has then outlined , with photographic accuracy , the most fantastically tangled forms of rock that can be conceived , even by rock and river experts . IJa . stiv , he has truly coloured every ridge , and pointy and hollow , in * the stream bed ; every spot of
lichen , every streak of land drainage , and every spray of ivy . But the result , after months of mental and physical toil , is a wonder-picture that a few only can understand , and a very lew adequately pay for . Mr . Vicat Cole is-one of the new lights of the Society , and will in time be a very bright one ; his hindseape ( 34 ) is a work of great beauty ; the sky is somewhat low in tone , but the barked tree and clustering wild flowers of the foreground are admirable ! " Mr . Ilenzell is in the track of Mr . Gobbeit , and makes : way very fast .
lie lias several 2 » tures , which show an advance within' twelve months that we hardly -anticipated * Mr . Hemsley lias a good low-comedy l ecture—the administration—or , as the doctors say , the " exhibition " - —of'pap , / porridge , or " Godfrey , " naturally discontented infant , by its elder brothers ami sisters . Mr . Woolincr has his usual pieces of bright , colour . Mr . West is strong in Irish inlets and Norway Fjords ; and the veteran Zeitter , ¦ whose , hand seemed , last year , to have ¦ wellnigh ' forgotten her cunning , is once more , we are pleased to see , in form again . * .
and " Mideday on the South Downs , " by the same hand , are , in their way ¦ , curiosities , and will not fail to attract connoisseurs . Mr . C . Rossiter ' s" Turnstile" ( 9 )») , a minutelyr finishedand amusing group of children in close confa ^ bulation must find a host of admirers ; nor will the investigative pass over his tiny work , " TooHot" ( 564 ) . Mr , John Thorpe has two admirable works . " For Sale" ( 133 ) represents a beached vessel , with the besom at her mast-head , and the usual accessories around her . We demur to the very urban-looking lamp-post , which ,, of . course , -mits ' t have been on the ground to have found a place on the canvas ^ but which is , to all intents , " a sun-team that has lost
its way" on the sea-beach : but with this most trivial exception , which a discreet purchaser would paint out by himself or his agents , the picture is a very nice one . The " Pevensey 15 : iy—Windy Weather . " is a fitting companion for the work just named . Mr . J . Adam is a painter of power and promise . The " Mill-stream" ( 131 ) * small and covetable ; and in various corners of the room we were attracted , as in the case of Mr . Leader , by works which turned out , en reference , to be by this artist . His "Summer Evening" ( 37 G ) is of the same calibre as the lastnamed . The " Druids' Circle near Keswick " ( 461 ) , a picture very low hung and barely visible , is one of the boldest in the rooms . The ilds the weird
orange light of declining day g - looking circle and the vista of mountain crags all in due degree , and the chill solemnity of sundown is finely suggested . " J > erwent Water , " again , a shockingly dull , lifeless , lightless picture , is , iii its way , very clever . The hues of the fell-side that overhangs Grange village , and of the grey old clav slate crags that protrude through the turf in that place ,, cry " stand , " io all vlio with eyes to see have wandered there . Of the rocks and stream in the same painter ' s " Otter Hunt / ' we may speak with praise , but the trees have the questionable air of lean boughs stuck , for the occasion , in the river ' s bank . In the Rcd Tarn , Helvellyn , " Mr . George Pettitt , a younger brother of the j ustly-eminent landscapepainter of the name ,, has given a specimen of his
best abilities , and the result of much study on the spot . The Strideii-Edg 3 and Ciitchedecam , drawn near , by the clearness of the mountain air , seem to menace the spectator . In the middle distance the faithful dog - watches- * the body of his master , as described in Scott ' s poem ; and the dull , dead tarn reflects in the foreground all the horrors of the scene . In his "Lagod'Orta " ( 418 ) and " Village on ILake Conio" ( 48 . G ) he has given us elegantly fanciful delineations of ' Italian mountains , but with fur less power . Few will be so bold as to deny that both ( the latter especially ) exhibit much , talent in sketching and ehkiro-seuro ; but it were as hard , to deny that both are too transparently artificial . Two scions of this strong artistic clan—Messrs . C . and . K . Pettitt-r-are also exhibitors . The
former has abandoned , and , we hope , for a permanency , the uncompromising hardness that threatened to mar an industrious career , and shows at least one meritorious Work . The " Margin of a Mountain Lake , " a stilly ppol backed by feathering woods and a crumbling mountain slope , is in all respects , excellent , save in the piece of foreground , which , though well studied , seems out of place . This defect is , however , mo _ ro tliun balanced by the skill with which the artist lms indicated—not " niggled out "—the stratification of tho background crags and the tl screes , " or , as the Londoners have it , the ( U'bris which slope -from their summit to the bosom of the pool . Mr . K . I ' ettitt ' s works ore , as may be expected of so young a professional , of the " promising" order only . His Juno" ( 4 / 5 'J ) and " Mountain Home " ( 438 ) arc both true as true can the first
hi in point of sketching , though in colour , especially , is over blue . Mi \ W . 10 . Batos ' a most pleasing picture is "Dover Doauh " ( 14 (>) , and his other sea-sido pieces ( 426 to 428 ) , are all meritorious . The Williams family are prolific ! ns ever . Wero wo to detail tho charming river and soft-coast pictures that delight , this yonr as over , cven ' tliose to whom tho manner of these artists is us familiar 113 their names , wo should soon overrun our space . Whether iv WlUlutns , n . Percy , a IJoddliifffon , or n Gilbert selects a "Breezy Day cm Th nines " ( M / i ) , "An Evening on Thames" ( U 7 ) , u "Sussex lliiyflold ( with a daring and successful attempt nt cut hay ) , llypuso" ( WtO , a ?' Summer Nvcnlny " u tfimi ( g () } 0 > or On tho South Const "( 330 ) , or ' 11 superb " Welsh Autumn" ( itfO ) , they are always charming to us who , dwelling among tho house-tops , « ro tflml to burnish with their HyinnathoLlu uhl our well beloved associations . , . Wo shall oontlnuo pur nolico of this exhibition In tin curly number , Qvh ndvoaw of a hearing for tho " Old Watercolour Society " before tho diHtributors of thy Uur-JiiJKton-houflO Enlnto , has brought on us 11 brisk flro of correspondence from mombora and patrons of other bodies , whu conceive themselves to lmvu an o < iuul
IXSTTITLTIOX OF I'INK . ' ARTS ' , PORTLAND CAI . IiJZRY ,. . ' :-. ''• ¦ ItEGKNT- STKE . ET . ; The twelfth exhibition of this prospering little society is , in landscape—to which its members and exhibitors seem to devote their almost entire attention—a good , deal above its average . It being beside our purpose to find reasons for the comparative scarcity of high art works , we will proceed at once to name , with small pretence to order , the few paintings of either school that seem best , to claim a place in our first notice . . The
The Messrs . Underfill I-r-by- one of whom is " Jew ' s Harp "( Ko . 1 )—have several important pictures , presenting , with one exception , their usual characteristics . . In our anticipatory notes of last week we unfairly omitted to observe that one of these , at least—by Mr . F . Underbill— " The Hose of . Lucerne , * ' presents agreeabe points of difference from the generality of his productions . The sweet faces of the ¦ Trinket Seller of Lucerne are very pleasing and nicely studied . The shadows may bo here and there even too thin—a fault we have never before found with Mr . t ' nderhill ; and there is a great deal of light in tho picture . " Left in Charge " ( f >) , by J . IX Watson , represents a pretty little girl cradleIt is
at work near a sleeping babe in a . a common-place subject enough bv this time , but one of tho last that tho gentle-minded should scoff at ; Tho artist well deserves a position among the puiuteis of domestic scenes . The chequered light in Mr . 15 . W . Loader's" Woodland Tool" ( 24 ) , is a pleasant reminiscence , » nil a number of the same artist ' s works promise excellent things . His Mountain ' s Top " ( no ) , and " lien Voirlieh " ( 181 ) , will please all admirers of mountain scenery . His " Warren Gate , Albury "— a photograph-like portrait of u well-known gate and treo—must arrest all who lovo the simple school of Hold and hedgerow , and his other work , of the same Boeotian-: typo , " Early Summer Time" ( . 023 ) , is a really wondyri ' ul
tmnsor . pt from nature . Its BprinK ^ groon corn-field , its self-coloured Surrey tiills , the barked oak in the foreground , and tho somewhat HtHF trees , may bu warranted truo copies and faithful to nature in colour . Mi * . Henry Moore ' s " Gathering JJurk " would bqttor have been called a south coast or Devonshire , scene ; its aerial porspotstivo is excolloiit . A noblo buy stretches miles and miles from tho haven and tho' just indicated village The Ushers' boats sUmiliug seaward graduate the disttincoj tho flluulows of clouds play lightly upon tho blue water , but tho foreground bark-gatherer is du trui > , Mr . llorloi- ' H meritorious " Calf and Sheep ' will claim a glance in passing to tho bin / . Ing " 8 nnfoin and Clover in Flower " of Mr . Kavon . lloro is iv largo eanvan tlovoiod to a labour of lovo , wo pi'usuino . It eannot bo denied—in fact , it Hltould not bo -r-rtliat tho palntov has woll suecoodod in Ijia aim . Tho hues aro garish , it is true , bat time will « 8 til > duo them . Tho Blonder troo on tho proper loft of tho picture is a beautiful foaturo again , but tho general ulfbut produced has more of wondor than . plousura about it . " JUod Whout and "Wild iMowoi-s " ( 122 ) ,
the yet undistinguished painters who exhibit here , w d uld , i ' our youns ? days , have been considered great suns - at the iioyal- ¦ Academy .- . The president , ' ' Mr . llurlstoue , has , besides some portraits , two works of" the" high school and of much power . One is tlie appeal of Dcsdeni . ona to Othello ; the other ' . is" Hamlot , ( iertrude , and the Ohost , at the instjmt when the former stabs Polonius throiiL' -li th-J- arras . The former picture
strikes us as the finest conception of the two , but both exhibit fine drawing . Mr . Salter has a picture , on whi < -h we cannot congratulate him , of Sir . . AVal . ter 1 l { ale % h ' s widov / pleading-before King Jaiiios ihv lior husband ' s lands . Mr . Leighton , v » lioHo " Procession of Bante " caused such a sensation at the' IJoval Aea < lai »} - five years since , has an historical' w ' orH , whicli , to say the most , is very singular . This gentleman ' s peculiar weakness appears to be for Titian , and with the exception of the drawing , which is not good enough , his present picture might be taken for a copy from that master . It is a relief to turn to Mr . Deffett Francis' " Scottish Gleaner" ( 1 W ) , a large and
highly wrought female study , beautifully drawn and richly Jit up . Mr . lVne has a large noble picture of Gen on , in which he has disphiyed all his power , and 2111 . Italian dreamy lake scene , to which many will give the preference . Mr . Cole displays a large and masterly cattle piece ; and Mr . Baxter some ; of those lovely studies of heads for which ho is renowned . Mr . l ) e Flenry and Mr . Shalders are two hu ' idscapc painters who have taken great bride ' s .- The former would appear , from No . 4-20 , to be a worsl » i ])}) er of Pyue ; the latter , wo see . by No . 425 , worships nature unadorned . JJoth these works aro excellent specimens . Mr . C (» bl > ett is more than Usually
fusei-. nating ; he has several powerful interiors , Hreton nnd Knglissli , benidod two lustrous bevies , of outdoor beauties , lliw great works are " Heather Uolles" ( 11 ) , and " Xut Gatherers" ( 188 ) . One of tlie ht » Ht known niemberri Uore , M . r . Gosling , whose ' woodland soenoM nil anuiteurs must wt ^ ll romombyr , has thi . s year umtcriully altered his Htyle , nnd has most uncccs . sfUlly abandoned the almost exlrema breadth , whiuli of Into yonva chavactoriscd his work . Mr . Clint ' . s " Coast Scones "
( 274 and 294 ) , show decided improvement in sonse of colour . Mi * , lioddingtun ' tiuniinprovublu c / w / d ' asnvra ja , of courso , nswo ' jt , still pool , bathed in dim , religious twilight . Mr . J . 1 * . Pettitt , head of tho London branch of ' . this extensive clan , and aliuost the ,, founder ol' high-clans landscape Hchool , oxhibiVf ) , befidea minor workn , two im-S ) sing gallery spocijnens of I 113 industry and skill , f those "X tralmon I ' ool" ( 3 G" 2 ) , cinboworod in lofty trecH j t ) irough which a rndinnfc sunbonm plays , is a picture that tho lovor of nature may muse over again and again with ploncjiuv . Tho large " Viyw 011 tho Conway , " in tho great room , by tho same loval hand , is a nuraolo ol'handiwork indeed . This painter delights more in engineering difficulties than in what vulgar mortals are pleased to term success . In tho pursuit ! of the former ho loaves sometimes the path of tho picturesque
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Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26031859/page/21/
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