If no picture stands out as being of 8, cial excell sce above all others at the in the Regent Street ien—which, by the way, I undorstand is the last of the present serier, now lose of the galleries having been acquired by a synilicate of se Scotch artista—thore are undoubtedly many works both of interest and inevit. Tt appeared to mo thet there were fewer portraits than usual, but of they few the majority were wh lly aoceptad First in order of merit I would place the
John Collier, which is quite one of the gin nomer, by the Hon. of Sir William
best piece: of work this most able painter has -rdone. TinGvit-ly preferred it slustice Bray or Mu, from the same brush, Mea, Wileon Lionel Wilson all three portraits being
gowned in white satii and the background to the picture is the pse-drab, tie only colour introduced being afforded by a few rossbuda in she brocade of a sofa upon wh ch the Indy in sented. The sai drats i exquisitely, Printed a hot day one wou'd say " what drlicioudy cool-looking jure." Unluckily, however, our hot daya are too few and far between, and one fools little warm might have been added with good effect.
Sir George Reid has contributed two very en ful portraits in Principal Donaldson of St. Andrews and Sir John Glover the Chairman of "Lloyds." Were La man who desired to have my likeness handed down to posterity I should certainly try to induce Sir George to accept the commission, as I should be certain that, without flattery, all that was good in me would be brought out. "One always fools that Sir George R m reliable; one ig proud own nationality.
ari of Plymouth, by Lave wrong and Mis. Jamee Backlog, by painted and pleasing is' far less the sine it I did not care for. "Mary Roading," a fancy portrait, was far prettier, but one of the best things Mr. Lavery has done for long tim in this year's salon in Brussels; it is
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