lint Arts.
WORKS OF FRENCH AND FLEMISH ARTISTS.
The French exhibition bids fair to become established as firmly in Pall Mall as any of our own. The collection first shown to the public on Monday, contains many excellent cabinet pictures, chiefly of genre and paysage by Meissonier, Lamoriniere, Verassat, Lambinet, Breton, Baugniet and Edouard Frere. By Mademoiselle Rosa Bonheur there are two small works, "A Grey Mare and Foal," dated 1852, and "Fawns in a Cover," both very truthful bits of animal painting. A very large landscape with cattle by M. Troyon, singularly gloomy and heavy in colour is one of the most noticeable pictures, and very charac- teristic of the school of French landscape-painters. An English subject has been chosen by M. C. L. Muller, "Henry VIII. conversing with Sir T. More and Bishop Fisher " ; this picture is carefully not to say timidly painted, but it will not fail to interest English painters, by being in many respects so different in execution from the English method; this, and a large picture of " Columbus breaking the Egg," are the only examples of historical painting.
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