10 JULY 1858, Page 21

PORTRAIT OF RUSKIN.

Mr. Richmond's crayon portrait of Mr. Ruskin, exhibited lately at the Royal Academy, has found an engraver in Mr. Ho11. It ought to find a public too ; as our distinguished art-writer has an ample circle of staunch friends and "good haters." The portrait is undeniably like, and pleasantly so. .71)o pleasantly it gives the idea of a larger, finer man than Mr. Ruskin is, and substitutes obviously prepossessing quali- ties for the marked peculiarities of the fragile form and thin keen face- the direct eyes, pent-house brow, and half-smiling mouth. Those who know Mr. Ruskin will recognize here his face softened down : those who do not know him would expect from the portrait a different kind of

man.