MR. OTTLEVS LECTURES.
After addressing audiences at the Marylebone Institution, the Royal Manchester Institution, and other places, Mr. Ottley has set up his tent in the French Gallery, 121 Pall Mall, for the purpose of further inculcat- ing the facts and principles of art. The first of three lectures was de- livered on Thursday, on the Italian School of Painting ; being a repeti- tion or recast of his discourse, "An Hour with the Old Masters," which we spoke of at the time of its first delivery. A popular audience win find a great deal of what they. would want to ascertain on the subject, skilfully compressed into a brief address, and clearly presented to the understanding and memory, with numerous painted and engraved illus. trations around them. To some points we should take exception: it is rather hard measure to the Bellinis and other fathers of Venetian art to be termed " a sea of insipidity and timid manner," and Caravaggio had surely little enough of Michelangelo except the name. But on the whole, the judgments are acceptable, of the orthodox standard. The second lecture, on Monday next, is to be on Engraving ; and the concluding out, on Thursday, is on the German, Spanish, French, and English Schools of Painting.
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