30 JANUARY 1830, page 11

Fine Arts.

ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. "See Painting crowns her sister Poesy ! The world are all astonished—so is SHE." The Times. THE election of Mr. SHEE IO fill the......

"once A Sketcher, Never A Painter," Says Sir Josiiita...

and the truth of the remark has been verified in too many instances. The dan- gerous facility of producing effects by a few touches of the pencil, belongs only to inherent......