ing, etc.; Sea Breeze; Marine Sub-Man; The Good Samaritan; The Na Wynants. Landscape. View of a Church in Carracci, A. The Coronation of the Virgin. Carracci, L. Virgin and Child, with six Saints. Claude. Landscape, with a Shepherd COLLECTION OF JOSEPH NEELD, ESQ., and Flock; Landscape, seen through M.P., Grosvenor-square, contains many the Portico of a Palace. rare and valuable pictures by celebrated artists. Correggio. The Holy Family. Farrier. Going to School. NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, Charing- back. cross. By the kindness of the Duke of Domenichino, Landscape; Infant Northumberland, this mansion is thrown Christ; Landscape, with Apollo and open to the public on Fridays and Satur- Marsyas; Landscape, with Tobit and days during the season. Any person the Angel. sending their name and address will be furnished with a card of admission for four. The collection of paintings is with the Doctors. small, but contains several good pictures. Amongst which are, Titian's Cornaro Family, several large copies, by Mengs, Raffaelle, Guido Reni, and Annibale Carracci. These pictures are in the ball-room, which is certainly one of the Giorgione. A Knight in Armour. most artistic and gorgeous rooms in Giotto. Fragment of a Fresco. London. Besides these, there are pic Francia. Coronation of the Virgin. Gainsborough. Landscape; Land scape, with Shipping and Cattle; Cornaro Family. Guercino. The Madonna and Infant tures by Guercino, Vandyck, G. Bas- Saviour. sano, Snyders, Schalken, and others. Guido. Head of our Saviour with The marble staircase leading to the the Crown of Thorns. drawing-rooms is very fine; as, indeed, is Hannah, R. Confidence and Diffialso the entire suite of reception-rooms, dence-a pair. forming, on the whole, a simple and yet Haydon. gorgeous interior. Hemling Holbein. Napoleon on the Rock. Head of a Gentleman. The A. W. ROBARTS, Esq., 26, Hill-street, Virgin and Berkeley-square, has a valuable collection trait. of Dutch and Italian masters. COLLECTION OF SAMUEL ROGERS, Jackson. Portrait of the late T. Esq., St. James's-place. In conse- Stothard, R.A. quence of the ill health of this gentle- Leslie. Edward V. and his Brother man, his most elegant and almost in the Tower, the night before the Fatal unique residence is difficult of access. Crime; A Mother teaching her Child Angelico. Salome dancing before to read. Herod. Murillo. St. Joseph and Infant Angelo. A Study in Black Chalk. Saviour. Mola. Reposo, with Angels worship Parmegiano. Virgin and Child. Poussin, N. The Campagna of Rome; Wilkie. A Spanish Senorita with a Nurse of the Asturias. Wilson, R. Landscape-an Evening effect. COLLECTION OF JOHN SHEEPSHANKS, Esq., Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge.Raffaelle. Virgin and Child; A Principally English artists. The follow Pen and Ink Sketch and a Red Chalk ing are a few :Sketch; Our Saviour on the Mount; Landseer, E. The Breakfast; Jack in Holy Family, with Angels strewing Office; The Shepherd's Chief Mourner; Flowers. Highland Drovers. Rembrandt. An Allegorical Sketch; Leslie, C. R. Scene from Merry A Forest Scene-Sunset effect; His Wives of Windsor; Widow Wadman own Portrait. and Uncle Toby. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Puck seated Mulready. Choosing the Wedding on a Toadstool; The Sleeping Girl; Gown; The Butt; Giving a Bite; The Strawberry Girl; View from his First Love. House on Richmond Hill; Cupid and Wilkie. Duncan Gray; The Broken Psyche; Girl with a Bird in her hand; Jar. A Landscape. MR. WINDUS'S COLLECTION OF Rosa, S. Jasa destroying the Dragon. TURNER DRAWINGS, at Tottenham, Rubens, P. P. A Triumphal Pro- may be seen on Tuesdays, from 11 till 5 cession; A Woody Scene by Moonlight; o'clock, by the kind permission of the A Woody Scene with Figures; The proprietor. Evils of War. Sacchi, A. Christ bearing the Sarto, A. del. Head of St. John DIVISION V.-SCULPTURE. There is perhaps less good sculpture in London ; than in any city in Europe, if we except the valuable marbles in the British Museum. The following are the principal collections and works of art : a The Elgin, Phigalian, Townley, Nimroud, and other marbles in the British Museum. See Chapter V. The Marbles at Lansdowne House.See catalogue in Division IV., of this chapter. Sully, T. Portrait of her Majesty. Teniers, D. Peasants smoking in The two Statues by Cibber, at BethleCabaret. hem Hospital, representing Madness and Tintoretto. The Miracle of St. Melancholy. Mark. The Bas Relief, by Michael Angelo, Titian. Noli me Tangere ; La at the Royal Academy; the subject is Gloria di Tiziano; Head of an Elderly St. John presenting a Dove to the Child Man, supposed to be himself; Charles Jesus. who shrinks from it and shelters V. on Horsback. himself in the arms of his mother. Velasquez. Prince of the Asturias, Don Balthazar, on Horsebck; A Spaniard. Veronese, Paul. Mary Magdalen anointing the Feet of our Saviour. Watteau, A. Conversation between a Lady and Gentleman. The Monuments in Westminster Abbey. See Chapter V. The Monuments in St. Paul's. See Chapter V. The Marbles at the Vernon Gallery. See catalogue of that collection. Flaxman's Models, at University Col lege, Gower-street. This collection George I.-A gilt equestrian statue, comprises the principal plaster works, in Leicester-square. statues, bas reliefs, &c., of that eminent George I.-A gilt equestrian statue, sculptor. See also University College, in Grosvenor-square. Chapter VII. The Statues in the squares and public places, enumerated below, in alphabetical order. At the west front of St. Paul's Cathe George II-A marble statue, in Roman costume, sculptured out of a single block of white marble, by Rysbrack, in front of Greenwich Hospital. George III-A bronze equestrian dral is a marble statue of Queen Anne, statue, by M. Wyatt, in Cockspur based by figures of Britain, France, street. Ireland, and America. Bird. George IV-A bronze equestrian Robert Aske, founder of the Haber- statue, by Chantrey, south-east corner dashers' Almshouses, at Hoxton. of Trafalgar-square. A Bronze Figure of Achilles.-Hyde Guy.-A bronze statue, in the front Park, 20 feet high, by Westmacott, area of Guy's Hospital. in honour of the erected in honour of the Duke of founder, by Scheemakers. Wellington, by ladies. A descriptive Henry VIII.-Over the entrance to inscription of which will be observed St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield. on the pedestal. Sir Hans Sloane.-A full-length Duke of Bedford, Russell-square.-A statue, by Rysbrack, at Chelsea, in the bronze statue in robes, on a pedestal, Botanical Garden, which he had arranged and adorned with emblems of bequeathed to the Company of Apotheagriculture, by Westmacott. caries, who erected this marble statue to William, Duke of Cumberland.-A his memory. gilt equestrian statue, by Chew, in William Huskisson.-A full-length Cavendish-square. marble statue, in the vestibule at Canning. A bronze statue, with Lloyd's, by Gibson. striking likeness, on a granite pedestal, Hulbert.-A statue, in front of the by Westmacott, situated in Old Palace- Fishmongers' Almshouses, at Newingyard, Westminster. Sir Robert Clayton.-At St. Thomas's Hospital. Major Cartwright.—A bronze statue, by Clarke, erected in Burton-crescent. Charles II.-Soho-square, with aquatic embellishments at the foot of a pedestrian marble statue. ton. James II-A bronze statue, in a Roman dress, by Grinling Gibbons, much appreciated. It was presented to his Majesty before his abdication, and now stands in Whitehall-gardens. Duke of Kent.-A pedestrian statue, in a manly style, bronze, on a granite Edward VI.--In front of the Writing pedestal, by Gahagan, Park-crescent, School, at Christ's Hospital. Edward VI. — A bronze statue, by Scheemakers, at St. Hospital. Lord Eldon. Portland-place. William Pitt, Hanover-square.—A Thomas's bronze statue, of striking likeness, on a granite pedestal, by Chantrey; erected A full-length figure. by his admirers and friends. School, Wandsworth-road. William III.-A full-length statue, William IV., King William-street, London Bridge.-A granite statue, in Fox.-A statue of Charles James English uniform; the pedestal finished Fox, sitting, and holding the Magna off in the naval style, by Kelsey. The Charta, on a granite pedestal, by West- statue is by S. Nixon, who has given to macott, in Bloomsbury-square. it a striking likeness. Duke of Wellington.-A statue, by Chantrey, west front Royal Exchange. bronze the members of the Annuity Fund, and of the of the patrons of the fine arts, and applied to the relief of the orphans Duke of Wellington. A bronze and widows of the members of the equestrian statue, by M. C. Wyatt, Artists' Annuity Fund. The Artists' Hyde-park-corner. Annuity Fund is wholly supported by Duke of Wellington. - A marble the contributions of its members, figure, eight feet high, in military coat, according to certain tables calculated uncovered, on granite pedestal, by by actuaries, and is applied to their own Milner, in front of the White Tower. relief in sickness and superannuation. Sir Richard Whittington. - At his Almshouses, Highgate. Queen Victoria.-A marble statue, by Lough, in the quadrangle of the Royal Exchange. Prince Albert.-A marble statue, by Lough, in the vestibule at Lloyd's. ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-For the relief of decayed artists, their widows and orphans, instituted 1814, incorporated by royal charter 1842. Under the immediate protection of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. ARTISTS' AMICABLE FUND. — EstaDIVISION VI.-SOCIETIES OF ARTISTS blished 1831. It seeks to engage the FOR PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE. artist's attention to the simple and THR ARTISTS' FUND was established honourable means of alleviating his own in the year 1810, and received on the future necessities; in raising a general 2nd of August, 1827, a royal charter fund, it is only urging him to contribute of incorporation. It consists of two a small periodical offering, that will separate branches; the Artists' Benevo- hereafter supply a resource on which he lent Fund, and the Artists' Annuity shall have a rightful claim, so that, in Fund, possessing together an invested the confidence of this reserve, he may capital of upwards of £35,000. The pursue his high course, without the Artists' Benevolent Fund is supported apprehension of sinking into distress by the donations and subscriptions of unprovided for. Foreigners now in London visit us in one of the most favourable seasons for acquiring a knowledge of the present state of English art. The Exhibitions, including the leading one of the Royal Academy, are open, and they contain fair specimens of the talents of our living artists. In sculpture, we admit that this country cannot boast many fine works; but in other branches of art we think it will be found that there is much in England worthy the attention of the connoisseur; and visits to the public and private galleries we have mentioned cannot fail to prove highly gratifying to the man of taste. CHAPTER IX. A CHAPTER WITHOUT A TITLE. CONTAINING SUNDAY IN LONDON.-LONDON STREETS AND LONDON PEOPLE. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. SUNDAY IN LONDON. overflowing; and without the City, as PERHAPS there is no city in the world the church-bells cease to ring, the streets which presents the strong contrast of are cleared, and scarcely a sound disdays which London does. On Saturday, turbs the Sabbath stillness. In the pathways teeming with busy people afternoon the scene changes. If a sunny hurrying to and fro on missions too day, the thoroughfares again are crowded numerous to calculate, — lumbering, with pleasure-seekers hurrying to the heavy-laden waggons and gigantic freshness of the country. horses, shaking the very granite road- We have no doubt that the visitor ways with their labours, loitering from foreign cities will find London on passengers gazing in shop-windows, Sunday an irksome place; but he must whose rival owners tax their ingenuity remember that England professes to be to the utmost to present some novelty, a religious country,-and the absence -bankers and merchants issuing from of those dissipations which may be their dusky counting-houses, with serious found in most Continental cities on aspects quite worthy of the English- Sunday is but a proper consistency, man's all-important theme, business; and an evidence of right principles on all seems confusion, bustle, noise, and the part of a Christian government. dust. On Sunday all is changed. The There are in London upwards of 350 busy people walk more leisurely, the Protestant Episcopalian churches and din of giant horses is not heard, no chapels, 251 churches and chapels bebargain-hunting shopping people stop longing to the Scotch Church and Disto glance at dismal-looking shutters. senters, and 35 Roman Catholic,But the City is the contrast. All around making a total of 636 places of worship is stillness; the thousands who, a few in the metropolis. hours ago, jostled each other in their There is certainly no city in the world selfish hurry are swept away as though which possesses so many eminent and a plague had spread its desolation; able Christian ministers as London. and huge commercial buildings look Amongst the Episcopalians, the followrather like sepulchral monuments raised ing are a few of the most popular.* to commemorate England's departed The hours of service at nearly all the greatness than busy haunts which yes-places of worship in London are 11 terday were, and to-morrow will be, o'clock a.m., 3 p.m., and 6 p.m. : EPISCOPALIANS. REV. EDWARD AURIOL, M.A., St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street. J. W. GLEADALL, M.A., Foundling Chapel, Guildford Street. * This list is necessarily limited, and having compiled it rather from observation than report, the Editor fears he may have omitted several names that should have been inserted, and will be much obliged for any suggestions with which his readers will kindly favour him upon the subject. |