WEST END EXHIBITION.
Among the exhibitions of the off season is a new competitor, in an as- pect of undisguised picture-dealing—Mr. Wallis's "West End Exhibi- tion of High-Class Modern Paintings," at the rooms of the Old Water- Colour in Pall Mall East. There are several works of interest, some by artists whose works are no longer found in the contemporary exhibitions, —such as Etty, Constable, Callcott, &c. Constable's is a most charac- teristic work, painted in 1817,—the, opening of London Bridge,—a great array of boats and soldiers on the Thames, terribly patched with paperlike scraps of white, yet really having the effect of a clear sharp shower of rain ! There are also many pictures by living hands—the Pooles, Peels, Gilberts, Boddingtons, Ansdells, Landseers, Copes, Coopers,—in short, something like a supplement to a Royal Academy catalogue,—most of them obtainable " at only,"—some not worth obtain- ing at anything, and many really beautiful.
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