7 FEBRUARY 1835, Page 19

FINE ARTS.

OPENING OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

THE Annual Exhibition of Modern Paintings at the British Institu- tion, Pall Mall, opens to the public on Monday. We hail the opening of this Gallery as the commencement of the picture season; and though the Winter Exhibition in Suffolk Street (lately closed) most agreeably fills up the interval, and, with the National Gallery, makes a complete round of picture-delights, we do not the less welcome this annual ad- vent of the creations of modern art. Dull indeed would that month be, when no picture-gallery with open doors invited us to the gorgeous array of colours that enriches its walls.

We shall make a full report of the attractions of the new paintings next week.