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PENCLL NOTES . A larger and better exhibition of photographs than any that London has yet * een is at the South Kensington MuseCh . It is the fifth exhibition of the Photographic Society , removed hither , this season , from Pall-malL Among the views , Tenton ' s and F . Frith ' s are conspicuous ; Thurston Thompson ' s and Howlett ' s following in order of merit . Mr . Fenton exhibits a great many , his finest being * Glen JLledr' ( 517 ) , a magnificent massing of rock , forest , and river scenery . The views in Palestine and Egypt , by young Mr . Frith , are marvels of sun-painting ; and it need scarcely be added that they are equal in interest to any series of photographs in their company . A 'Lane Scene ( 414 ) , by Mr . Thubston Thompson , is very beautiful . This gentleman exhibits several fine studies of trees . Mr . Howlett has photographed the l < eviathan , in every possible aspect , and in every stage of its iron growth . Perhaps the best specimen ever taken from a waxed-paper negative is Mr . Melhoish s ' Valley of the Lyn * ( 143 ) . As a picture of bold forest scenery , it is also deserving notice . Messrs . T . and R . Mudd ' s photographs of natural scenes , also taken by the waxed-paper process , are nearly as good . Copies of paintings constitute a rather large department of the exhibition . Mr . Howleti s are very numerous , and are all more or less praiseworthy ; but the most successful photograph in this branch is Caldesi and Monteochi ' s copy of Stanfield s well-known picture ' The Abandoned' ( 22 ) . The photographic equality of colours in the original painting of course goes a long way to account for the pre-eminence of this work . The portraits include a good likeness of Tennyson , by Mr . Downes ( 36 ) . The most delicate and pleasing of the untouched portraits are those by Mr . Williams . Of a bolder and occasionally a more
picturesque kind are Mr . Lake Price ' s portraits of eminent painters . They are of a large size , like the portraits which Mr . Herbert Watkins has made bo popular , and are equal to that gentleman ' s productions in vigour and fidelity . "We believe that nine in ten persons who visit this collection will be most struck by the subject pictures which Mr . Prices exhibits . His « Don Quixote' ( 420 ) and his ' Robinson Crusoe * ( 550 , 554 , 561 , and 564 ) are wonderful specimens of pictorial arrangement , but we can hardly praise the system of perpetuating by means of photography a parcel of clever tableaux vivans . Against coloured photographs , in the vast majority of instances , we set our decided protest ; but such pictures as those by Mr . Lock are proof against our objections . We can only quote a remark of Mr . Albert Smith , and say that in the large frame exhibited by Messrs . Lock and Whitfield will be found " a perfect gallery of "English beauties . " Since the opening of the exhibition , a fine collection of French photographs has been added . Of these we particularly observed some most wonderful microscopic objects by Bkstsch , showing how valuable photography must be to the student of natural history . The portraits , in , this supplementary exhibition , are great in merit and in personal interest . Mr . Le ggatt , the print publisher of Cornhill , opened a new gallery some two or three months ago , and it is now filled with French pictures , chiefly gathered from the Pall-mall exhibition of last year . Meissonnier ' s laborious triviality , the ' Chess-players , ' will be found in a central and prominent situation . There are also some of M . Edouakd Frebe ' s charming bits of nature , and of M . Schlessinger ' s clever tricks Of art . The gem of the exhibition , however , is Madlle . Hosa Bonhedr s latest work , a group of Highland cattle . The picture hangs opposite her celebrated ' Horse Fair , ' and will show the least artistic eye that . Madlle . Bokhkuk's genius is progressive . There is a large picture , by Mr . Barker , on view afc the Auction Marfc , in Lothbury . Its subject is the Corso , at Rome , in Carnival time . A false start lias been made , and all the horses thrown into confusion , by one of their number dashing against the rope , and bringing himself and his groom to the ground . We cannot praise Mr . Barker for any quality of his that appears in . his new work . All the figures , whether of horse or man , are exaggerated in position , and , being on the balance , do not give any idea of movement . The colour is crude and harsh , while the drawing is , in parts at least , questionable . The ' Moore Raphael , ' engraving of which was published in the Leader ¦ eight years ago , is now in Paris . An article in the Journal des Debats of March 13 , strikingly confirms our judgment , given in 1850 . The writer says : — This picture , of about the dimensions of the ' Vision of Ezektcl , ' suggests , by its style and handling , the period when the gi .-..: Italian artist painted do ' Marriage of the Virgin' ( Lo Sposalizio ) , which is at Ria ; ui : yet the remarkable vigour of the modelling and of the colouring in the picture of ' Apollo and Marsyas , ' would justify the belief that it was executed at a period somewhat posterior . But whatever may be the precise year in which it was painted , it is of that time when Raphael , quitting the manner of Perugino , bis master , passed to a new style , and threw himself into that brilliant career which he subsequently pursued . We were led , by certain indications in the picture , to fix the date about the year 1504 , while Raphael had still some of his early crudities clinging to him , but after he had visited Florence , and had . gained by intimacy with the broad daylight style of colouring practised by the masters of that city . A remarkable collection of paintings in enamel is exhibited at the Munich Gallery , No . 2 , Frith-street , Soho-square . It requires some courage to set about a work of any considerable size in enamel painting ; for the difference of half a degree in the heat necessary to burn in the colours will upset the labour of weeks . Hence , the exquisite productions of Bone and Essex are , like those of their predecessor , Jean Petitot , simply miniatures . Whether more certainty has been ensured or not by recent experience and improvements , we cannot tell ; but the artists of the pictures exhibited at the Munich Gallery have manifested a boldness which we can only suppose to be warranted by superior knowledge of their agents . Among specimens of skill in a branch of art so merely mechanical and imitative , we do not wonder to find good and bad originals copied with equal fidelity . Three pictures of still life , after Wgeninx , are the most consummate in their finish and microscopic truth of detail . A copy of a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci is almost ridiculously successful in its photographic reproduction of peculiarities . Another copy , from a meretricious German ' master , ' is just as curiously exact . A Murillo displays , perhaps , the greatest amount of intelligence in the transfer of expression from canvas to porcelain . We recommend these pictures to all who may have leisure to pay them a visit .
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tfo . 4 . 19 , Apbh . 3 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER , 831
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—?—London , Thursday Evonii » B , April 1 . There lias boon no improvement In the markets since tho Bottling , and tho announconio . it of tho Indian loan of five millions has had no effect on tho market , fllio rtoo In Paris of Rontos and railway shares iB not followed by tho usual marked improvement of our prices here . Thoroia on uneasy , distrustful ' fooling . There is oxpootod to bo p , flnnnolal dir . Houlty for Mr . Diaraoli to solvo , and with this imd tho India Government Bill in prospect can tho prusont Ministry endure ' through a session ? is a question that people con-Sfc In fcl foroiBn atooks tho purchases in Peruvians are now completed , and it is doubtful if wo shall aco that stock inuo 1 i _ lilBncr _ fttr » 'osont . liuonos Ayrean and Brazilian " ~ S a faVouritVinro ~ st ) rioilt ~ 1 UHt-now - 'i . ' urkisi-Six-por-Conts . and Four nor Oontw nro llatlor this woolt . In colonial railway shares Jdnst Indian guarantee shares aro slightly armor ? Canada Trunks and Great Won torn of Oimada aro donrosaod . Most of tho colonial government , bonds are In demand . Nova Scotia , Canada , and tho various Australian colonial Kovorninonti bonds aro in request . JLu our railway markets there is but little rally , tho doorcase of tralHon show how much the trade of the country has ( alien oir . Kastoru Counties and South Wales alone aro eboadv . Oalodoniaua liavo fallen to 80 . ,
Three o ' olook—Tho bank board has broken up and made no alteration In the rate of discount . 16 is understood that tho Indian loan has boon takon at about an average of 98 . Blackburn , 0 . 10 ; Caledonian . SOJ , 87 ; Chester and Holylioati , 3 < i , 38 ; Eastern Counties , AS , S () ; Grout Northern , IO 2 £ , 103 J ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , 08 , 100 ; Urcat Western , 574 . 68 ; Lnneasliiro and Yorkshire , 874 . 68 ; London and Black wall , 0 , Oi ; London , Brighton , anil South Coast , 105 . 107 ; London and North-Western , 035 , i » li ; London imd South-WeHtorn , 01 J , 024 ; Midland , 034 , 01 i North - Eastern ( Berwick ) , SOJ , 014 j South-Eastern , ( Dover ) , GO , 70 } Antwerp and Rotterdam , BJ , 6 i ; Dutch Rhenish , Si , 84 . dis . ; Eastern of France ( Paris and Strasbourg ) , 27 } , 273 : Groat Central of franco , , Great Luxembourg , 7 i , 8 A ; Northern of Prance , 37 S , 38 ; Paris and Lyons , 32 J , 33 ; Royal Danish , 10 , 18 ; Uoyal Swedish i , i ; Siunbro and Aleuso , 71 , tik .
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CO UN MAltKKT . Mark-lano , Thursday , April 1 . TiiKitE has boon but a short tmpply of KiikIIhIi wheat during the week , and oats have sold slowly at provious rntoa . Barloy has beenrathi > r oheanor i English luoaus Is . nor quartor dearer ; pens dull . On tlio whole , business has boon Hut , and pricus do not show any upward toitdunoy .
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BIRTHS , MAKKIAQKS " AND DEATHS . bi it * r us ^ ONAWT . —On tho 20 th March , * at Taplow , tho wlfo of Bayard N . Oonant , Hen .: a dauKbtor . » ALLAS . _ Ou the 20 th March , at TunbrldRO "Wells , tho who of Robert Dallas . lUsq . i a nan . tolwm . MARRIAGES . « tt 0 WNE—GUILDlNG .-OnthoSUlrdiDoo ., at Kooringa ,
South Australia . John Henry Browne , Esq ., of Bucklandpark , near Adelaide , to Margaret Anno Frances , second daughter of tho late Rov . Lansdowno Guilding , rector and carrison chaplain of St . Vincent , W . I . . GBRRiVIi 3 ) -APPLlilTOX .-On the 31 st March at Christ Church , Harpurhoy , Manchester , John Gorrm-d , fcsq .. Adlington , to Elizabeth Anne , daughter of the late John Appleton , Esq ., of Colloyhurst . DEATHS . HERRICK . —At Calcutta , on tho 12 fch Fob ,, Lieut . Arthur Horrick 7 H . M . ' s 54 th Rogt ., oldest son of Captain Edward MORTON ' -On "> t i ? o m ominB of the 31 st March , at 47 , Brook-street , tho Earl of Morton , aged 03 .
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The Fokthcomi . no Easter Entkutainmknts . —Mr . Buckatono has provided for his Easter patrons a classical extravaganza , by tho author of Atalanta , called Pluto and Proserpine , with scenery from the bright and elegant brush of Mr . William Callcott . At tho Adelphi there is to bo a new operatic spectacle , with the title of The Caliph of Bagdad \ the music by Boveldiere , and the characters by Mr . Rolfe , Mr . Paul Bedford , Mr . Bland , Miss Koden , Miss Mary Keeley , Miss Arden , &o . Mr . Kean , at tho Princess ' s , produces a now farce , ¦ and re-produces Faust a ? iU Marguerite . Miss Swanborough , on Monday , inaugurates her lesseeship of the ¦ Strand by a new copnedy , written by Mr . Stirling Coy no , on titled , Nothing Venture , Nothing Have ; a burleaquo on tho subject of Fra Mavolo , und a farce . Some of tho beat actors and actresses from the Drury Lsne oompany will lend their aid to tho fair lessee ; and Mr . Albert Smith has written an opening address . Tho Surrey will produce a now drama called The Co ){/ caaion , embracing tho strength of tho company . At Astloy ' e , tho bombardment of Canton is to bo converted Into a blazing , jronring , stimulant to tho patriotism of the Audionco ; and , at tho Standard , Miss Glyn , Mr . Phelns , Mr . Henry Mniston , and others , aro to not ¦ tragedy , followed by a grand , talo of enchantment 'name unstated . Mr . liobson , at tho Olympic , pro-• duces nothing-new- ; -ami-tho-J-ycoum ,-it ^ would-upiJBar , ta not at present to bo reopened .
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*¦ trv it bv no higher standard than that of cleverness , and it will bear comler ^ n with anything we have seen since last year's French exhibition . The pa ° fasleeping girl is painfully true to a common class of ugliness , and the frC -nrir hidden face which rests on that girl ' s shoulder is excellently drawn pa ! i finished Altogether , this is a -work to be looked at long and attentively . tJ ^ Hbnkt Moore is a pupil , one might almost be inclined to assert on the ^ n / v afforded by Ms works , of Mr . Hook , whose pictures of fisherman life eV 1 « f braised by Mr . Rdskin last year . The Young Mariners' ( 440 ) is not S Woobb ' s best picture , but it is greatest in intention . We have named this nter next to Mr . Shallfiei / d , whose careful and almost microscopic finish I nparlv rivals ; and we may place in juxtaposition with both these names the nme of Mr . J . G . Naish , whose picture , ' The Receded Tide , Port du Moulin , t l nd of Sark' ( 156 ) , appears to have been painted with close observation . He Vnlains that the peculiar colour of the beach ( almost pure cobalt apparently ) paused by the great quantity of blue syenite or soap-stone there deposited . But we must ask him how he accounts for the peculiar texture of the brown meks which surely cannot be natural to them ? In Mr Pabkott ' s * Scene from the Quai du Louvre , Paris' ( 30 ) , there is much to praise , particularly in the architectural portions . His weak point is the foliage on the left hand of the foreground ; and it is also to be objected that the variety of colours in the costume of the groups is , unfortunately , not a truthful characteristic of a Parisian scene . Mr W . Unubrhill ' s ' Waiting for Fish' ( 2 ) , and Mr . Charles Duke's ' Welsh Bridge' ( 4 ) , manifest no improvement in the respective hands . Both the Messrs . Underbill , in this exhibition , prove that they have settled into the coarse , dirty style from which their deliverance appeared once to be near at hand . Of Mr . Duke the same maybe said , with this addition , that his poverty * of idea makes the monotony of his manner all the more irksome . Mr . Pasmokb , usually a favourite with us , does not exhibit anything worthy his P The landscapes of Sidney Percy and the Williamses are all good of their kind : but they are more hurried this year than ever , and , on inspection , will appear to be mere scene-painting . The « Welsh Valley' ( 90 ) , by Mr . A . Williams , and 'OurEiver' ( 45 ) , are the two best of these family productions . There is a landscape that stands apart , less on account of its skill than a quiet homely truth and sentiment—we mean Mr . H . B . Gkay's ' English Landscape' ( 35 ) . It is really what its name implies . Further to describe its characteristics , we may briefly say that it is a golden harvest scene , enamelled with field flowers , human as well as botanical .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1858, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2237/page/19/
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