INAUGURATION OP THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
The picture of this subject by Mr. Selous is now to be seen at No. 4 Trafalgar Square; where it has been placed for exhibition by the owners, Messrs. Lloyd, of Ludgate Hill, previously to the issue of an engraving. The work contains no fewer than ninety-seven portraits of the most no- ticeable persons who took part in the inauguration ; all of whom, with two or three exceptions, sat to the painter for the express purpose. Some of the likenesses are very good—that of Sir Joseph Paxton is the best we have yet seen. In artistic respects, the picture is a competent rendering, though its real interest is of course altogether adventitious. This interest, however, is still sufficiently strong, and above all sufficiently wide, to make the subscription-list for the engraving a good one.
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