Ina Arts.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
The seventh annual exhibition of the Photographic Society was opened to private view on Thursday ; and so densely crowded was the room, that anything like a complete and precise survey of the pictures was simply impossible. The collection is excellent, containing the most beautiful specimens of the beat artists in photography, and of the several processes applied to a great variety of purposes-portraiture, landscape, copies of old paintings, copies of bas-reliefs, statuary, &c. Some of the copies of old paintings and sketches are very fine, better than ever show- ing the way in which the works of the greatest masters may be familiar- ized to every household. There is a very large collection of landscapes by Roger Fenton, with a number of beautiful works by Lyndon Smith, Bisson freres, Henry White, Dixon Piper, Lake Price, and others,- scenes taken from every part of the world. The portraits are numerous, and comprise many well-known faces,-including the first truly good likeness of Lord Brougham ; for it has the extraordinary delicacy of the face which the portraits of the illustrious original have commonly omitted. We have every style of handling, from the most finished stippled miniatures based on photography to the beautiful "untouched photographs" of Herbert Watkins, who alone presents a portrait collec- tion remarkable for its numbers, the character of the originals, and the extraordinary combination of delicacy and force : the portrait of Lord Brougham is of this set. But it is impossible properly to notice the works in detail from this first view.
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