No. 54, PALL-MALL.
In addition to the associations for the exhibition and sale of pictures
by living artists, Mr. Hobday opened an establishment on the 21st of May
for the same purpose, adjoining the British Institution, This gentleman
is known to the public as a respectable portrait painter, with a taste
for art entitled to consideration for his present spirited endeavour in
its behalf.
In this exhibition there are performances of distinguished merit by
several eminent artists. The Upas, or poison-tree of Java, by Mr. Danby,
in illustration of the legend in Darwin’s Loves of the Plants, is a fine
picture, already known. Another by Mr. Danby--is a wood on the
sea-shore, with figures, Ulysses and Nausicaa, from Homer. A Fête
Champêtre, by Mr. Stothard, is one of a class of subjects, which its
venerable painter has distinguished by his magic pencil; Mr. Edwin
Landseer’s Lion disturbed at his repast, a forcible and well-remembered
effort of his genius, stands near it. Mr. Charles Landseer’s Merchant,
with Slaves and Merchandise, reposing in a Brazilian Rancho; the
Entombing of Christ, by Mr. Westall; landscapes, by Messrs. Daniel,
Glover, Hoffland, Laporte, Linnell, W. Westall, &c.; pictures by sir W.
Beechey, Messrs. Chalon, Kidd, Heaphy, Rigaud, Singleton, Stephanoff, J.
Ward, &c., grace the walls of the establishment. Every picture in this
gallery is for sale; and, under Mr. Hobday’s management, it promises to
be a means of introducing the public to an acquaintance with
distinguished works of art still remaining open to the selection of its
patrons.
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