EXHIBITION IN RUSSELL PLACE.
A remarkable collection of pictures and designs has been got together at No. 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, and will remain open to view by ticket during the present month. One object has evidently been to secure to each work that fair amount of attention and deliberate judgment which it is so difficult to give in a large and crowded exhibition-room ; and indeed, the works, with scarcely an exception, are of that markedly individual character, whether in narrative subject, in passion, in imaginative conception, in character, or in colour, which to look at hurriedly is not to have seen at all. With this specishindividuality, however, the -works have a certain community of character too • the artists being generally well known for the profession and practice Of the same principles of-art, now so universally termed" Prseraphaelite." Mr. Madox Brown contributes eighteen works, including an emigrant subject, "The Last of England,"—on the whole, the foremost of all his productions hitherto. Mr. Davis, whose landscapes have lately risen into some notice, sends -six; Mr. Rughes, Mr. Holman Hunt, and MT. Millais, about the same number each ; Mr. Rossetti something more in water-colours and designs. The new name of Miss E. E. Siddal is attached to other designs quite unlike anything-which the manner of lady-artists has accustomed us to. Among the remaining contributors, are Messrs. Campbell, Collins, Halliday, Inchbold, Martineau, Windus, Wolf, and the late Mr. Seddon ; the works, with a few exceptions, being entirely new to the public. The novelty of the exhibition does not depend upon this simple fact, however, but upon the very unusual quality of the contributions, and the evidence which they present of men differing in character and tendencies working up to their convictions according to one rule of right.
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