It was only recently that:in speaking of the sculpture in
the Royal Academy Exhibition, we were led to expatiate a little upon the prevalent Want of ability to, execute our more, important public monuments. A casein point is now too obvious to Pass/ without notice, in the attempt to erect a monument in memory of the.brave Guardsmen who fell in the Crimea, upon one of the meat Prominent and best adapted spots in the inctsopolis, and where Military and Naval heroes most do congregate- Waterloo Place. Here, for the last twelVeniontlr, have been going on the prepaiations, merely in thalorm of a hiige and not ornamental pile of scaffolding and pedestal ; the, entire model had been approved, the figliits modelled of the full suit" and even cult, but when they Came to be-placed upon the pedestal-in the .position for which ' they were de- irigned, they are found to be large or toa small, or at any rat; the whole design- ie-condeinned.th be retrieved as fast as possible, and a place ispromised-tu the scullitoi'i-Mr.-J, Bell, somewhere in Hyde Park. In- onr-motice of the Belvidere'eallection of pictrires last week, it was intended to state that the average price:DE the pictures was more than a thousand guineas eaell=ttliat there was not ona of less Value than this ettetanstAi soluO, ik an exceedingly high estimate.- : • -,!,4,.f.` Yesits4'..:Subscriber," has, kindly informed us that the- price paid by the French -Govenment for the-celebrated picture of the Tasman gnlate.Conception, by Murille, which .belonged to Marshal Soul; was
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3.rivalto" the renowned Corr " tece homo '7 has turned up in the possession of Mr. Gardiner, of Oxford Street. The picture is painted on essarse canvass, and was lately purchased in a state completely Obscured by dirt and paint. It now appears cleaned and restored, and we Wish we tiettld pronounce it an undeubli!'d original. It is painted in a purplish tint Of ecilcirrli.:and In a much tone tbatithe National Gnllery picture; it is aliPritilieilarger and iliffors slightly in parts. The expression 'of the heads denotes a less sensitive hand than that of Antonio Allegri, and the colouring is generally too wink. and_ timid for the work of a great mitAter.. hl interesting if--it!m .0PlY enjaper,a,,elemialt lissitation,;whieh, we.,woutsapkinsclartake telinncinnet ... -
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