FINE ARTS.
LOUIS PHILIPPE AND THE COMTESSE DE NEUILLY.
Yet one more portrait of Louis Philippe is now published—probably the latest authentic likeness. The artist, M. Dubuffe, whose refined por- trait of Mrs. Fraser ranked so high in the Academy exhibition of 1849-, has represented the late King of the French as a simple gentleman—the Comte de Neuilly, in his library-chair at Claremont. Though the work bears so late a date as 1849, the face retains the firmness of entire self- possession and even vivacity ; the marks of age being visible chiefly in the lower portion. The portrait, with a companion-likeness of the en- Queen Marie Amen°, has been finely engraved by Mr. J. Thomson. Both works show admirable skill in the drawing and modelling of the features, and are marked by a careful and accurate precision which ren- ders them of a sterling value. The engravings are published by Mr. Mitchell of Bond Street.
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