of the Academy, or some distinguished small individual expense, instruction to artist, to W. Carpenter, Esq. Hours all who desire to obtain a knowledge of of study, from 10 till 4 during the ornamental art, and to supply a comweek, Saturdays excepted, and the time plete and systematic course of education, of closing stated previously. in relation to every kind of decorative This GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DESIGN, work; more especially to such persons Somerset-House, London.-Committee of as are, or intend to be, engaged in the Management, meeting at the Board preparation of designs for the various of Trade, Whitehall:-- Chairman, the manufactures of this country. DrawRight Hon. Henry Labouchere, M.P., ing, painting, and modelling are therePresident of the Board of Trade. Vice- fore taught with a view to the acquisiChairman, the Right Hon. Earl of tion of knowledge and skill in ornaGranville, Vice-President of the Board mental design and decoration. of Trade. Secretary to the Committee forms the essential and characteristic of Management, and Curator, Walter business of the School, by which it is Reeding Deverell, Esq. Clerk to the distinguished from other schools of art. Secretary, Mr. H. Lipsham. The Accordingly all the exercises of the stucourse of instruction comprises elemen- dents are required to have reference tary free-hand drawing, from the flat immediately or ultimately to the purand from the round. Shading from the poses and requirements of ornamental flat and from the round. Geometrical design. The advantages provided by drawing and perspective, including the Government for the students include, elementary principles of architecture for their use, paintings from the Royal required by the ornamentalist. Figure Gallery at Hampton Court, for the drawing, from the flat and from the study of flowers and other appropriate round, in regard to ornamental applica- subjects, and specimens of beautiful tion, including anatomical studies and plants and flowers are supplied from the drapery. Modelling of ornament, and Royal Gardens at Kew. Every wellof the figure as applied to ornament. conducted student is allowed to take to Painting in water-colours, tempera, his home books from a lending library, fresco, oil, and encaustic, from examples containing upwards of 1,000 volumes of art, and from nature. Landscape, of works of art and instructive literaanimals, flowers, fruit, shells, etc., for ture, printed catalogues of which can decorative purposes. Exercises in com- be obtained of the Secretary's clerk. position, and original designs for deco- Several exhibitions are established at rations, and all kinds of ornamental £40 per annum, renewable yearly. manufactures. Explanatory class dis- Printed forms of application for admiscourses by the masters, on the elements sion to be addressed to the Secretary, of practical geometry and perspective; and copies of the prospectus are obtainlight and shade; anatomy; form and able of the office-keeper, and hall-porter. motion. On the various modes of paint- The apartments at Somerset House are ing, as applied to decoration; the prin- capable of accommodating 300 students, ciples of colour; structural botany, and of whom the class for elementary drawthe conventional treatment of foliage and ing, in the room on the ground-floor, flowers, for the purposes of ornament. comprises about 100, who are admitted Lectures on the history, principles, and on probation, and are transferred to the practice of ornamental art. advanced classes in the upper rooms, as The Government School of Design they give evidence of the requisite prowas opened in 1837, as a national ficiency. Fees: morning, 2s. per month; institution, under the superintendence evening, 2s. per month. Hours of atof the Committee of Her Majesty's tendance: morning, elementary classes, Privy Council for Trade, to offer, at a from ten till one o'clock; advanced classes, from ten till three. Evening: guineas, either in one sum, or by halfall the classes from half-past six to nine. yearly or quarterly payments, at his opThe department of the School which is tion, but always in advance. Each devoted to the instruction of females is member must pay on entrance, one conducted in a building opposite the guinea in addition to his subscription. entrance to Somerset House, 330, Strand, For further particulars, apply to Mr. W. where upwards of 70 students can be Dendy, Honorary Secretary, 18, Howreceived; and where prospectuses and land-street. printed forms of application for that GENERAL PRACTICAL SCHOOL OF department can be obtained. ART, the New Gallery, 79, NewmanARTISTS' SOCIETY, FOR GENERAL street, Oxford-street.-Mr. J. M. Leigh, STUDY FROM THE LÍFE, 29, Clipstone- Master. This school offers to artists, street, Fitzroy - square. President, designers, and amateurs the pracJ. J. Jenkins, Esq. Treasurer, E. tice of elementary, geometrical, and Duncan, Esq. Candidates for admis- perspective drawing; drawing from the sion are required to make a written ap-antique and living model, (male and plication to the Secretary, at least one female,) and modelling, with a weekly month previous to the quarter-day. Sub- examination in anatomy, and lectures scribers pay a quarterly subscription of on other subjects of art. A select li£1 9s. 6d. in advance, and an entrance brary for circulation among the stufee of £1 1s. The hours of study dents. Morning class for ladies or genare from the first Monday after the 15th tlemen, the particulars of which may be of September, to the first Monday after obtained at the Gallery. Classes for the 15th of March, from six till eight gentlemen, every evening from seven till o'clock. From the first Monday after ten. Elementary, geometrical, and the 15th of March to the first Mon- perspective drawing; drawing from the day in May, from seven till nine. From antique and life; study of anatomy, the first Monday in May to the first and modelling. Terms, 7s. 6d. per Monday in August, by daylight, from month, or one guinea per quarter. six till eight. From the first Monday SCHOOL OF ART, 21, Bloomsburyin August to the 15th of September, street, Bedford-square.-This School from seven till nine. Further parti- was established and carried on for many culars can be obtained during the hours years by Mr. Sass, for the education of of study, at the rooms of the Society, artists, and the instruction of amateurs or on application to the Honorary Se- in drawing, and painting in oil and cretary, W. Lee. Esq. water-colours, modelling, etching, etc., ANTIQUE SCHOOL SOCIETY OF BRI- possessing every requisite as a probaTISH ARTISTS, School of Art, 1849.-tionary school for the Royal Academy; is The School is conducted under the per- now conducted on the same principles sonal superintendence of members of as heretofore by Mr. F. S. Cary. The the Society, and is open from ten till galleries, studios, and library contain an four. Lectures delivered during the excellent collection of casts from the anseason, on human anatomy, with antique, drawings, works of art, and folios improved arrangement; comparative of prints from the old masters. Inanatomy; geology and meteorology in struction is given in figure and landconnection with landscape; perspective; scape painting, anatomy, perspective, painting; colour, etc., etc. Admission light and shadow, colour, and compoto the Antique School free to artists. sition. Terms may be known at the LIFE ACADEMY, 72, Margaret-street, School. Regent-street.-Extracts from the rules ACADEMY FOR THE STUDY OF THE and regulations:-Each member is to LIVING MODEL, AND FOR GENERAL pay an annual subscription of five INSTRUCTION IN ART.-Conducted by Mr. Charles Lucy. The system of edu- and a beautiful unfinished piece of cation in art which Mr. Lucy has sculpture, by Michael Angelo, is over adopted in his atelier is that which is the fireplace, representing the Holy now generally pursued in France, and Family. The Lecture-room contains a more especially in Germany, where the fine copy of the Last Supper, by Leostudy of the living model, the antique, nardo da Vinci, and the Painting-room draped figures, expression, and anatomy the palettes of Reynolds and Hogarth. are made subservient and applicable to SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street, Adelcompositions, which the pupils are at phi.-Was instituted 1754, for the purthe same time instructed to make, in pose of stimulating manufacturers, by accordance with any particular branch honorary and pecuniary rewards, to put of art which they may hereafter wish forth their talents in the production of to pursue. Dissertations on anatomy, elegant and useful inventions. This Soillustrated by the living model, are given ciety has expended upwards of £100.000, at intervals by a practical anatomist. derived entirely from voluntary contriTerms, per month of four weeks, morn-butions, &c. The Model-room possesses ing class, 16s.; evening class, 12s. ; many attractions, showing the progress morning and evening classes, £1 15s. of art during the last ninety years, and Fuller particulars may be obtained of the Council-room contains six pictures Mr. Lucy, Tudor Lodge, Albert-street, by Barry :--1, The Story of Orpheus; Mornington-road. 2, Harvest Home, or Thanksgiving to Ceres and Bacchus; 3, The Victors at DIVISION II.-SOCIETIES FOR THE Olympus; 4, Navigation, or the Triumph PROMOTION OF ART BY EXHIBITIONS, of the Thames; 5, The Distribution of viz.:-Royal Academy; Society of Arts; Premiums in the Society of Arts; 6, British Institution; Society of Painters Elysium, or the State of Final Retribuin Water Colours; Society of British tion. Artists; New Society of Painters in BRITISH INSTITUTION, Pall Mall.--· Water Colours; National Institution Patroness, the Queen's Most Excellent for the Exhibition of Modern Art; Ex- Majesty. President, his Grace the hibition of Modern British Art; Mr. Duke of Sutherland, K.G. Deputy J. L. Grundy's Gallery. President, the Right Hon. the Earl of ROYAL ACADEMY, Trafalgar-square. Ellesmere. It was established in 1805, -In addition to the objects of this on a plan formed by Sir Thomas BerInstitution, named in the preceding nard, for the purpose of encouraging division, there is an annual Exhibition British artists, and affording them opin the rooms granted to this Society, portunities of exhibiting historical subcommencing the 1st of May, which jects to a greater advantage than in consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, the rooms at the Royal Academy, where models, and proof prints, all new un- the multitude of paintings, particularly copied works, excepting paintings in of portraits, prevented them from being enamel, and impressions from unpub- seen to advantage. There are generally lished medals, so that the state of the two exhibitions in the course of the arts in Great Britain may be easily per- year, one of living artists in the spring, ceived. The Exhibition is open every and one of the old masters in the sumday, for about six weeks, from eight till mer. The Gallery, purchased for the seven; admission 1s.; catalogue 1s.; use of this Institution, was erected by the produce, about £6,000, answers the Alderman Boydell, for the exhibition of expenses of the establishment. The paintings for his edition of Shakespeare, library ceiling was painted by Angelica and it is well adapted for its present Kauffmann, and represents Invention, purpose. The sculpture in front re Composition, Design, and Colouring; presents Shakespeare, accompanied by Painting and Poetry. It was designed exhibition of works of living artists, in by Banks, who also executed the un- the various branches of painting, sculpfinished statue of Achilles bewailing the ture, architecture, and engraving; also loss of Briseis, which ornaments the for the sale of them. The exhibition hall. Admission, 1s. is open during the months of April, SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER May, June, and July. Admission, 1s. COLOURS, 5, Pall Mall East.-Presi- The gallery is entered by a Doric pordent, Copley Fielding, Esq. Treasurer, tico, and consists of a suite of six F. Mackenzie, Esq. Secretary, G. A. rooms; one of them is the committeeFripp, Esq. The Society of Painters in room. They are the most extensive Water Colours was established in the rooms in London for the exhibition of year 1804, by a small band of artists, works of art, having 700 feet of wall, who devoted themselves almost entirely illuminated by skylight. to the development of the capabilities of EXHIBITION OF MODERN BRITISH this branch of the art. Previous to this ART, Gallery, 5, Pall Mall East.period water-colour painting was hardly Established 1850. Samuel Stepney, practised at all; excellent sketches in Esq., secretary. This Institution is sepia and bistre were produced, but formed under the auspices of some colours were used sparingly, and those well-known amateurs, for the purpose of employed were few in number. During enabling artists to exhibit their studies the forty-seven years which have elapsed and sketches in oil and water colours. since the foundation of this Society, the The rules are as follow:-1. That all art of painting in water colours has the works be framed and glazed; and rapidly risen to a high state of perfec- that every work exhibited be mounted tion, and the annual exhibition of the with a suitable margin. 2. That all Society has long been considered one of the frames be of one uniform pattern, the chief attractions in the metropolis which, together with their sizes, shall during the season. It is not too much be determined upon, and provided at to say that the excellence of English the expense of the promoters. 3. That artists in this department of the art has no charge shall be made for the exhiacquired an European reputation. The bition or sale of any work. 4. That no Society of Painters in Water Colours artist be permitted to exhibit more consists of thirty members, and twenty than three works. 5. That all works associate exhibitors. Elections take being bona fide the property of the place on the second Mondays in Fe- artist may be sold in the gallery. 6. bruary and June. The exhibition is That no work be exhibited without the open to the public during the months special permission of the artist. of May, June, and July. Admission, 1s. The time of opening the exhibition SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, Suffolk- varies, according to the decision of the street, Pall Mall East.-Incorporated promoters. Admission, 1s. by royal charter, 10 Vic. OFFICERS: NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER President and Trustee, F. Y. Hurl- COLOURS, 53, Pall Mall.-President, stone, Esq. Vice-President, J. B. Henry Warren, Esq. Vice-President, Pyne, Esq. Treasurer and Trustee, Louis Haghe, Esq. Tveasurer and J. Tennant, Esq. Auditors, E. Pren- Secretary, James Fahey, Esq. tis, R. J. Hamerton, Esq. Secretary, This exhibition is supported by its J. W. Allen, Esq. Keeper, Mr. J. members alone, whose works only are Chilcote. admissible. The time of opening is In consequence of the limited size of usually appointed for Monday, in the the rooms at Somerset House (the for- last week but one in April. The primer Royal Academy), this Society was vate views takes place on the Saturday instituted in May 1823, for the annual previous. The period during which the exhibition continues open is determined, according to circumstances, by the committee, but closes generally about the end of July. Admission, 1s. All unsold works are removed on the Monday and Tuesday after the exhi bition. 62. Arundel Castle. J. M. W. Turner, R.A. 64 to 69. Sketches, by D. Maclise, R.A. 86. Rosslyn. E. J. Niemann. 89. The Monk's Library. G. Cattermole. 90. View between Flint and Rhyl. D. Cox. 102. 103. Passage of the Brook. D. Cox. 104. Edinburgh. Entrance of George IV. into T. Derby. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART, Galleries, 316, Regent-street.—The object of this Institution is to provide an annual exhibition of works of art, in paint-| ing, sculpture, architectural designs, engravings, etc., by the occupation of 107. space upon the walls, and in the gallery, at £1 1s. per foot; such space to be A.R.A. determined by lot. Exhibition during the spring months. Admission, 1s. EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES IN OILS, 113. Polly Peachum. Sterne's Maria. P. F. Poole, 121. Village of Woolfardisworthy, North Devon. H. Jutsum. 122. Italian Landscape. G. Barret. 149. The Mill. P. de Wint. at Mr. J. L. Grundy's Gallery, 130, Re- Sontag, the Youngest Sister. J. Hayter. gent-street.-Open from ten till dusk. Admission (including catalogue), 1s.— The following are a few of those pictures Topham. which claim especial attention, although there are, of course, many others highly A.R.A. deserving encomium, but our space prevents a more extended notice. No. 2.-The Murder of King Duncan. G. Cattermole. G. 171. The Dance. W. E. Frost, 173. Exeter Cathedral. S. A. Hart, R.A. 175. Wreck of the Avenger. C. Stanfield, R.A. 177. Venice. J. Holland. 178. Some One Expected. P. F. Poole, A.R.A. 13. The Dance. G. Cattermole. 14. Dieppe. C. Stanfield, R.A. 24. The Gamblers' Quarrel. Cattermole. 26. The Torrent. E. J. Niemann. 29. Cows and Sheep. T. S. Cooper, Cooper, R.A. 33. Grand Canal, Venice. R. P. Bonnington. 35. An Italian View. J. Varley. 36. Sintram entertaining his AncesG. Cattermole. tors. 192. River Scenery. T. Danby. 195. Landscape and Sheep. T. S. A.R.A. 196. Griselde. A. Elmore, A.R.A. 207. Study of a Sleeping Child. J. Inskipp. 208. Sheep-washing. E. Duncan. 211. Sir Edwin Landseer. Sir E. Landseer, 216. View in the Highlands of Scotland. J. M. W. Turner, R.A. 226. Sunshine and Showers. F. R. Lee, R.A. 229. Italy. W. D. Kennedy. 0. DIVISION III.-PUBLIC PICTURE |