NEW PRINTS.
TIIE First Number of a set of Engravings from the pictures of the Into HENRY LIVERSEEGE—an artist of great talent both in his observation and delineation of character, in scenes of familiar life especially—promises an amusing work. The plates are very well engraved in mezzotint, with great clearness and fidelity, by Messrs. GILLER, WARD, *ALLEY, BROMLEY, &C. LIYERSEEGE'S paintings translate well into black and white. The truth and simplicity of his style are favourable for this object. The engraver needs not doubt the meaning of a touch or a turn of the features ; the artist's purpose is plainly expressed. The subjects in this Number are—a Colder reading Cobbett's Register; .111acheath in the condemned cell; and a comfortable old Porter answering the inquiry of a shock-headed Ploughboy, who is the bearer of a present of game. The Cobler is capital; only he is represented reading the last, or advertisement page of the Political Register, in order to enable the painter to show the titlepage with its gridiron crest : this should have been avoided ; it lessens the force of the incident. The artist's Mae- heath is not the hero of GAY'S Opera ; though the face has appropriate character of the unscrupulous sort. LIVERSEEGE hit off the expression and manner of a real person, and delineated actual scenes and characters, with nice discrimination ; but he failed in his conceptions of ideal per- sons. He was deficient in the inventive faculty.
Mr. Wit.zoi has drawn on stone a forcible and expressive likeness of Earl . Grey ; the fault of which is its being too young. This, we suspect, is not a mistake of accident, but of design, and one that this artist, as a limner of noble persons, accustoms himself to. It is, how- ever, bad taste, and but poor flattery. George the Fourth might be ashamed of his age ; but Lord Grey has reason to be proud of his years, seeing that the last are the most glorious of his life, and also consistent with his youthful manhood. The effect of this clumsy mode of flattery is remarkable in Mr. WILKIN'S portrait of the Marquis of Stafford ; in which the features are old and the look is young,—a most ludicrous in- congruity, Mr. WILKIN'S style is too bold and truthful for this sort of sophistry.
• We have also a hard and vulgar effigy of Lord Brougham, litho- _ graphed by TEMPLETON. When are we to see a good portrait of. the Chancellor? JACKSON would have been most likely to succeed, but he is:gone. A portrait of this painter by himself has been engraved in mezzotint, by WARD, which conveys a good idea of his style. The face seems to have been done justice to in the print ; but the hair and the rest of the picture are not so good.
In the Court Magazine for next month, there will appear miniature portraits of the Empress of Russia, from a picture by DAWE, who was
fOr many years painter to the Russian Court; and of the young bride of
the King.of Belgium.
The new Queen appears from this portrait to be a blonde, with aquiline nose, arched eyebrows, and a precise mouth ; and altogether she looks like a handsome and fashionable Frenchwoman,—with some of the coldness and formality of her royal husband, but with a slight degree of hauteur in place of his reserve. The sketch is a slight one, btiVneatly executed.
H. B. has complimented Mr. Manners Sutton by giving a charac- itristic sketch of *him in his official costume as gpeaker. It is no ca- ricature, but &felicitous:resemblance:
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