21 APRIL 1838, Page 16

NEW PRINTS.

TIIE engraving of l'aenis's portrait of the Queen, by WAGSTAFF, iS a most finished and brilliant piece of mezzotint, and faithfully reflects the character of the original drawing. The only exception that can be taken by the most fastidious, is to it defect incidental to most engraved portraits where the lips are shown to be parted ; taut in the present instances it is so light as not to detract from the value of the resem. blance.

The portraits of the Bishop of Exeter, by F. CRUM:SHANK, and of Sir Edward Sugden, by Riciimonn, in the current number of Ryars Conservative Statesmen, are true and characteristic likenesses of two remarkable men ; though the atrabilious and truculent aspect of the right reverend pamphleteer, and the sardonic asperity of the forensic disputant, are very mildly indicated. These two limners are among the most succesful of miniature painters : their likenesses are faithful and expressive, and their style of drawing free from mannerisms. Scenes ri Lye is the vague title of a proposed series of etchings by T. Sinsosr, intended to illustrate, or rather to tell, a story called "the Anatomy of Happiness." Two judge only constitute the first aura-

ber,—not enough to enable us to of the artist's skill in developing character and incident, but sufficient t to show that his manner s outrageously grotesque and extravagant, whatever his matter may be.