PEEL AND WELLINGTON, PAINTED BY WINTERHALTEB,
AND ENGRAVED BY J. FALD.
The picture from which this mezzotint engraving is taken was painted in 1844, by command of the Queen. Both the Duke and Sir Robert are represented standing, with a complete absence of pose or affectation. In this respect we think it the most successful of Mr. *Winterhalter's works ; most of which are arranged with so evident an intention to look like na- ture, as to become, by that very cause, unnatural and constrained. There is something too much of what is termed flabbiness in the head of Peel. Messrs. Colnaghi, the publishers, inform us that the engraver composed a background for the plate, and actually placed it on the steel in five days. The mezzotint, indeed, shows that too great ease which the process is cal- culated to produce : there is some want of relief, from the monotony of black masses.
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