We were shown the other day another portrait of the"Queen,—a
half. length, in water-colours, painted by PARRIS. It represents her Majesty standing up in her box at the Theatre, and gives a full front view of her face, the eyes looking directly out of the picture. It is a true and agreeable resemblance, with an expression of ingenuous sweetness, and an air of graceful simplicity, characteristic of the youth. ful Queen.
As a work of art, it is highly" wrought and brilliantly coloured, though somewhat bard and overcharged in the execution : it is by far the artist's best production, and so free from his usual mannerism that we hardly recognized that defect. In this instance, as in that of CHALON'S portrait, the Queen's expressed distaste for any thing mere- tricious in painting, has had a beneficial effect on the artist : and hence we may fairly predicate that the pure taste of the Sovereign will exert a happy influence over at t in England. Who knows, indeed, but that truth arid sobriety may supersede flattery and garishness, and painting, " see its wholesome days again " under the reign of Vitsroata ?
• 4th November 1536; N 489, p 1031. This portrait is to be engraved in mezzotint, and the etching is already finished. 3Iessrs. liumsox and GRAVES are the publishers.
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