PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: 'MESSRS. DICKINSON'S Ex 111BITION.
Mews. Dickinson, of Bond Street, have opened their gallery for an exhibition which challenges more than ordinary attention. The work' displayed consist, with casual exceptions, of photographs proper executed in their establishment, or of paintings based on photography ; the original photograph, in the latter cases, standing almost if not wholly in stead of sittings from the person represented. This is a new phase of portrait-art, and one which the growing importance and acceptance of photography rendered all but inevitable. Many of the portraita are lifesized, the substratum being the magnified photograph : they are painted with practical knowledge, breadth, and vigour, and, if not always carried far in detail, would admit of being so without any violence to the principle of their execution. Numbers of the "sitters" are men of distinction—Lord John Russell, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Lyons, fee. ; and the likeness declares itself at once. Here also are specimens of the new dirt°every of photography on ivory, of which we believe Messrs. Dickinson have the exclusive ownership ; the advantages being very salient in softness, mellowness, and permanence, and also in supplying an unequalled surface fer the colouring, which comes out as transparent and delicate ao in an ordinary miniature. The bust of Tennyson by Mr. Woolner, of which we spoke last week, forms an additional attraction in the gallery.
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