ARTISTS' AND AMATEURS' CONVERSAZIONE.
TEE first meeting of this agreeable society was held at Freemason's Tavern on Wednesday, and was well attended, though the display of works of art was not so numerous as on some occasions. Among the. most striking novelties was a very beautiful picture by MULREADY, an engraving of which will illustrate St. Ronan's Well in the new edition of the Waverley Novels. It represents the studious curate of St. Ronan's disturbed in his study by the busy-body Touchwood, whom he had invited to dinner. The vulgar look, person, and manner of the in- truder, and the abstraction of the scholar, are admirably expressed ; the colouring is rich ; the design and drawing are masterly ; and the painting is finely finished, and in perfect keeping. There were also an elaborate and brilliant copy, by DERBY, of VANDYKE'S picture of the Earl and Counteis of Derby ; some beautiful miniature copies of portraits by WARD : a great number of original drawings and sketches by Mr. Nam' and various eminent artists ; some very pretty sketches of landscape and trees in oil by A. CLINT, full of truth and feeling ; and some clever academical studies in oil of the figure, by J. Wool), the flesh tones of which had a glowing freshness of colour. We wish he painted heads as naturally as he paints bodies.
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