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The pictures for the finthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Academy were sent in on Tuesday, and amongst them were two by Mr. Millais,. the names of which are not yet determined. The subjects are sharply contrasted, the one being an orchard in full bloom, with a party of girls sporting in its chequered shade; the other a convent garden in autumn; where one nun is digging a grave, whilst another sits on a bank looking out from the canvas at the spectator with the saddest of all expressions which a human face can wear. Mr. Frith's one picture is a portrait of Mr. Charles Dickens; Mr. Augustus Egg sends "Cromwell before the Battle of Naseby " ; Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Solomon "The Return" and "The Acquittal"—companion pictures respectively to their successful works of last year, and the preceding one. A quarrel between two An- dalusian lovers is the subject of Mr. Philip's one picture. Mr. Sidney Cooper has three landscape and cattle pieces, his own singlehanded pro- ductions.
We have news also of the group of Kensington artists who will figure in the forthcoming Royal Academy lxhibition. It will receive from Cres- wick, R.A., a landscape entitled "Early Summer " ; a small rocky picture with a tumbling stream ; and a large expanse of sea-shore : from Mid. ready, R.A., the mother and child exhibited last year as a cartoon, now turned into colours : from G. B. O'Neil, a statute fair—lively and bright in colour of the several groups in the foreground: from Mac Callum a careful study of Beckenham Church porch, with a flock of sheep obsti- nately straggling in the wrong direction, under the title of "The broad and narrow way " ; and a study of bare trees, with a flock of goats : from Ansdell, A.R.A., a scene of sheepwashing in the High- lands ; and a party of hunters returning with several varieties of dogs—well painted : from J. C. Horsley, A.R.A., Milton dictating to his wife, with John Elwood, the Quaker, in the corner of the room with his hat on ; "Blossom Time," an apple-tree in blossom, beneath which is a couple of youthful lovers: from Hook, A.R.A., three pictures—one, a pretty, bright lane in Surrey; the other two are from the coast of Cornwall with wonderfully green waves : from Cooke, A.R.A., two sea pietas with picturesque boats in the foreground ; and a small panoramic view of Venice : from Cope, R.A., Cordelia receiving the news of her father's disinheritance of her; the head of a young mother with her baby; and a haby being fed with grapes : and from R. Redgmve, RA., a party of emigrants taking a last look of home from the top of a hill; and a little country girl with a baby in her lap.
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