EXHIBITION OF FEMALE ARTISTS.
The Society of Female Artists has removed to the gallery, at 53, Pall Mall, known as the abode of the New Water-Colour Society, and the long room is filled with a diversified and interesting collection, by some hundred and fifty ladies. Accident kept us from any visit to the gallery but one late in the week and late in the day ; yet, we do not like to let another week pass, without pointing out the opening of the gallery, and the general character of the exhibition. Our eye was arrested by some clever pictures by Mrs. Oliver, Miss Kate Swift, Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, Mrs. E. M. Ward, Miss Florence Peel, and Mrs. Dundas Murray,—two landscapes by the last, particularly. Miss Gillies has two beautiful pic- tures—one " Waiting for the boats," which we have seen and noticed before, and a lovely Rebekah. Miss Yetts sends some remarkable studies of flowers, especially one called " Fox-gloves," in emulation of the photograph for reality, with a similar boldness and precision in co- louring. The treatment is too level throughout—too scattered, without a natural centre to the picture : but the study is vigorous and truthfully clear.
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