FINE ARTS.
Nit. GRUNDY'S WINTER mainiTION.
Air agreeably diversified collection of " water-colour drawings and sketches in oils "—several of them much more than sketches—is brought together, with this designation, at the Gallery, No. 130 Regent Street. That the idea, here first carried out last season, meets a public require- ment and is likely to produce further results, may be inferred from the fact of the competition it has already excited. Nor is it to be doubted that, with the present increase in the number of artists, and at their pre- sent rate of productiveness, ample materials will be always at hand for other similar enterprises.
Reserving for a future opportunity a more detailed survey of its con- tents, we can now only observe that the exhibition numbers among its contributors in water colours, Messrs. Herbert, Poole Cattermole, and Pickersgill; in landscape, Messrs. Co; Stanfield, Creswiek, Linnell, T. Danby, and Nieman ; together with a few works from the hand of De Wins; that there are nude studies by Etty, a pen and ink sketch of Wil- kie's, four works by Mr. Kennedy, some of Maclise's designs to Moore's Melodies—not adequate expressions of his power ; by Landseer an early portrait of himself, interesting, and finely handled, somewhat after the
numner of Gainsborough in chgracter and of Sir Joshua-in metbodi_ and, twe works, in water-colours and in.0.02,1 bye. Turner: the latter especially, painted.at a distant'' of issinethirtryeare, grandin the extreme.
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