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ROYAL PORTRAITS BY WINTERHALTER.
Mr. Mitchell has just published three lithographic portraits of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal, after drawings made by Mr. Winterhalter within the past year,—being, it may be presumed, the latest authentic likenesses which have been taken. The great and now almost exclusive vogue of this sure-handed but limited and =cha- racteristic artist, in the Court region, is calculated to divest of any great living interest the records supplied to the lieges, present and future, of the actual- period of the reigning family. However, although the- resemblance in the Queen's face might be not only. more agreeable but stronger as well—her Majesty and the Prince Consort, in the engravings before us are unmistakeable likenesses; the former wearinq the order of the Garter and holding a paper in her hand, the latter in military costume. There may be no disloyalty m saying that the chief immediate interest will attach to the figure of the Princess Royal; of whose inci- pient womanhood this is the earliest portrait which we remember to have seen. The artist's embodiment is one which could not fail of being pleasing under any circumstances, and which, considering who the sitter is, makes the engraving sure of becoming an universal favourite.
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