In the Fourth Number of the Grillers/ qf Portraits,• we
have a vigorous likeness, by VANDERBANK, of the immortal Newton ; whose massive face, with white flowing locks, and somewhat anxious expression, Would seem to convey the notion of an old English merchant, rather than of the profound discoverer of the law of gravitation ;—a finelYengraved head of Michael Angelo, with a vacant look of melancholia, but showing a fine high forehead ;—and a characteristic head of Moliere, with a sensible, ardent, and piercing expression in his handsome countenance. It is the likeness of un homme d'esprit, with the flowing hair and loose robe of the gallants of the time; and a vigorous and healthy aspect, such as one would have supposed likely to captivate a more covetable mistress than the coquette of a strolling company of actors.
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