HUNT'S LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
This great religious picture, which has gone in some respects farther than anything else in showing what the new Prseraphaelite movement can effect, and which was lately on view at the French Gallery along with Mr. Millais's "Proscribed Royalist," has been removed, in the same company, to Messrs. Jennings's in Cheapside. We have called it a great picture, and a religious picture. It is emphatically both ; and a painting which deserves that praise could hardly receive more. Great in subject, in power, in art ; religious in right earnest, and from the depth of a most human heart, and by none more intensely felt than by those who are themselves most religious. The picture has had, and continues to have, a real influence' surely the ultimate end of sacred art, though not always coincident with the artistic excellence of its examples. Here at least the two things meet.
The work is about to be engraved, in line and stipple, by Mr. Sim- mons; whose rendering of the vividly treated "Proscribed Royalist" is now to be seen far advanced towards completion. It is noticeably ac- curate, sure, and skilful ; rather mechanical in some points of surface- treatment, but perhaps this remains to be remedied by the final touches.
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