| This picture is well arranged,
CHARLES CARMINE, R.A. | and coloured with much truth
| to nature; the chiaro-scuro
Portraits of Mrs. Punch and Child. | is admirably managed.
R.W. BUSS. |
|
Cattle returning from the Watering | OR THUS:
Place. \
R. BOLLOCK. /
| This is one of the cleverest
"We won't go home till Morning." | productions in the Exhibition;
M. WATERFORD, R.H.S. | there is a transparency in the
| shadows equal to Rembrandt.
The infant Cupid sleeping. |
R. DADD. |
|
Portrait of Lord Palmerston. |
A.L.L. UPTON. |
|
Coast Scene: Smugglers on the look |
out. |
H. PARKER. |
|
Portrait of Captain Rous, M.P. |
J. WOOD. |
/

Should the friends of any of the artists deem the praise a little too
oily, they can easily add such a tag as the following:--"In our humble
judgment, a little more delicacy of handling would not be altogether out
of place;" or, "Beautiful as the work under notice decidedly is, we
recollect to have received perhaps as much gratification in viewing
previous productions by the same."

FOR THE HALF CONDEMNED:

This artist is, we much fear, on the decline; we no longer see the vigour
of handling and smartness of conception formerly apparent in his works:
or, "A little stricter attention to drawing, as well as composition, would
render this artist's works more recommendatory."

THE TOTALLY CONDEMNED:

Either of the following, taken conjointly or separately: "A perfect daub,
possessing not one single quality necessary to create even the slightest
interest--a disgrace to the Exhibition--who allowed such a wretched
production to disgrace these walls?--woefully out of drawing, and as badly
coloured," and such like.

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