THE ARCTIC COUNCIL.
Messrs. Graves are about to engrave a picture (now on view at their establishment) by Mr. Stephen Pearce, bearing the above title, and re- presenting the discussion of a plan of search for Sir John Franklin to be submitted to the Admiralty. Portraits of Sir Edward Parry, Sir Geo; ge Back, Sir John Richardson, Sir Francis Beaufort, Captain Hamilton, Sir J. C. Ross, Captain Bird, Colonel Sabine, and Mr. Barrow, are introduced. The expressions and actions are discriminated with good taste ; the exe- cution is that of a thoroughly practised painter ; and the composition al- together takes high standing among portrait subjects. The picture dis- plays completeness also in occasional incident. It deserves, as well for its skill as its interest, to command a well-filled subscription-list for the engraving.
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