THE ART S.
• PORTRAIT OF LAYARD AFTER PHILLIPS.* .Mv. Henry W. Phillips has produced a striking and animated like- ness of a remarkable man. Mr. Layard will be ever memorable as the man who excavated a mine of arehmological knowledge-which was the sole link wanting' between the earliest records of human history and modern times ; bereffeaed that great service- by the aid of his own saga- city and energy; and the artist enables y on to see in the intellectual, bat hopeful, frank, and manly aspect, the personal qualities which carried Layard through his career, _. Lay-anti eempanion, Major Rawlinson, li '
es also-been painted- by the same artist.-a goodnatured, shrewd, and energetic man;_ fit_Achates for the explorer. .: „ .
Mr. Phillips has a happy turn for catching the life of his subject., and WO notice that faculty' in- the two pin-traits: they arctrue designs. A climatic portrait .0 Viardot-Garcia; will illustrate the. same faculty to those who visit the exhibition : it is strikingly like. A little flattered perhaps, not by althring the Vim% but by selecting n position which does nut clisplef the peculiarities of contour as they are but too constantly dis- played in flig ViinOd postitile of real life. But the action, the expression, the posture, are exedlleitt it fa a design of the heroine in hfeyerbear's Zrophek, Witli:Viardot-Gareie for the modeL This. is the true principle of portraiture Sometimes caught haphazard by-those who are engaged in dramatic portraits, but hero it is seized by Mr. Phillips with a conscious intelligence,. and, admirably used. You see its effect also ha the portraits 0 Layard and II awlinson.
* Portrait. of Henry Austen Layani; painted by Henry W. Phillips ; en- graved by Samuel W. Reynolds. An effective engraving ; clear, vigorous, A114-41n.of !`.
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