ROYAL PORTRAITS.
WE have just been looking at the new engraving of the King in his Coronation Robes ; and have been not a little astonished at the pro- digious brilliancy with which the engraver (Mr. HODGETTS) has de-
lineated in black and white the rainbow colours that must necessarily pervade a coronation suit. It is true that he has not been able to at-
tain all those actual diversities of colour which the pallet only can ac- complish; but we are almost ready to admit that he has produced quite as startling an admixture of effect, by the power with which he has arranged the light and shade of the robes and ornaments with which the person of Majesty is decked. In addition to this, the variety in the tone is remarkable, not only on account of the distinction which it establishes between the sword, the jewel, and the robe, but for the justness with which it is subdued in exactly the right place, so as to give full effect to the countenance of the King ; the consequence of which management is, that the face is fully as prominent and brilliant (in its own particular manner) as any other portion of the engraving. With respect to the portraiture of the features, however, it strikes us that the resemblance to the original is not so accurate as in the en- graving lately published of his Majesty seated on a sofa, also from the pencil of Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, but from the tool of another en- graver.
ACKERMANN has just published a medallion engraving of the young Queen of Portugal—if the Ultras will allow us still to give that title to • Donna MARIA DA GLORIA, now that she is about to quit the English shores. It is intended as a companion to a portrait of the young Princess VICTORIA, lately published; and together they make a very pretty pair ; the advantage, however, if we may be allowed to judge, being in point of interest infavour of the young Brazilian. Her face, according to this portrait, has almost all the formation of womanhood about it ; and her forehead, high and full, gives a dignity to the upper part of her countenance hardly to be expected in so young a subject, even though a queen. The engraving has been executed by Wool, NOTH, after a drawing by HoemEs : it is delicately touched, but some- what deficient in strength ; which is the more to be regretted, as the peculiar lineaments of the face which we have just described would have borne a more energetic development.
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