THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
The interest of the day has evoked from the Palace, by the Queen's permission, a picture by Landseer painted in the first year of the Prin- cess Royal's infancy, and which had never before been submitted to pub- lic gaze. It is now in the hands of Messrs. Day and Sons for repro- duction and publication as a chromolithograph, and is to be seen at the German Gallery, 168, New Bond Street. The Royal nursling is repre- sented in the scarce-conscious playfulness of infancy : a hound, with almost serpentine curve and length of neck, nestles his head at her bare feet, and a dove broods by her head. We recognize the blue open eyes, and trace the curve of the mother's lips. The picture is accompanied by the series of successive impressions of the chromolithographic stones; thirty-two of which go to the execution of the fac-simile, now completed to within its last three stages. The process has its limitations in point of those delicacies and refinements of shade and tint which mark the handiwork of the true artist; but this—even without allowing for the final touches which remain yet unsupplied—is a clever and creditable specimen.
In the same gallery is exhibited the very arduous and admirable " Niagara " of the American painter Church, which we spoke of on a former occasion, and which should be studied by all who are interested in. the future of American art. It is a work of the best omen, and can- not fail to rejoice them.
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