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    416 THE PICTURES OF THE SftASOtf.

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    The tendency to over-refine among the elder artists is very evident this " Vesuvius year in and Creswick part of ' s the " A Bay relic of of Nap Old les Times from the , " and Mole Stanfield . ' The ' s

    free , bold handling * of Sir Edwin Landseer ' s " Flood in the Highlands " is a great charm to all wholike ourselves , have felt

    , of 6 f gildin late years g * refined that gold the / hi ' gh finish of his pictures was not unlike

    Mr . Danby the elder has an imaginative picture , " Phoshus rising from the Sea / ' which judged on its own grounds must be

    accepted as a very poetical rendering" of a poetical thought . The lightfleecyrose-tipped clouds of earliest dawn and the gentle

    sensuous , ripp , le of the waves are in delicious harmony , and transport one to the land of dreams which Phoebus is already rising to

    disperse . T . S . Cooper , leaving the sunny pastures in which he usually delightsgives us " A Snow Driffc at Newhig-gin Muir , East

    Cumberland / ' with , such veri-similitude that we feel the chill of the dense , opaque atmosphere , and shiver with the shepherd in his plaid .

    The Misses Mutrie are more intimately allied than ever with the life and _sjoirit of the flower-world they delight themselves and

    others by depicting with such feeling and truth . " Heather , " by Miss Mutrie , is especially charming . J . Phillipin " The Marriage

    , of the Princess lloyal , " has grappled well with a difficult and thankless subjectbut it is in " Prayer" that we recognise his

    , legitimate work . Phillip stands alone in his power of representing men and women as they are , and we delight in his warm

    fleshand-blood creations , solid and not over-refined though they be . At M . Gain b art's exhibition of French pictures , Rosa Bonheur

    does not shine . The two paintings she contributes , " A Mare and Foal " and " Fawns in a Cave , " are scarcely worthy of her pencil .

    At the German Gallery , M . Gambart has afforded the public a great treat by a collection of Mademoiselle Bonheur's Scotch and

    Spanish pictures , which , though very generally known , have proved unusually attractive , both to sight-seers and lovers of art . The

    spirited grouping of the Highland cattle is beyond praise , —there is life in the vivid eyes and the moist nostrilscharacter and expression

    , in every limb and hair . It is a pity that this great artist did not remain long enough among us to master the secrets of mountain

    and heather , as she has , in years of study , mastered those of the brute creation .

    At the French Gallery , Henriette Brown _' s fine picture of the * _' * Sisters of Mercy" has again been on exhibition , confirming the

    favorable opinion it elicited at first . It is a tender and womanly theme , expressed with vigor and truth , and while far _removed

    from , sentimentality , is full of sentiment and pathos . Madame Brown also contributes two small pictures , " Children with Game "

    and ** A Sister of Mercy Writing . " The most remarkable picture of this exhibition is , " The scene

    at the Conciergerie Prison during the Roll-call of the last Victims

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    416 THE PICTURES OF THE _SftASOtf .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/56/