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months, he would have no opportunity of making a
reply to any queftion put to his picture.

SCULPTURES.

Mr. Bacon, R. A. has fiurnifhed a very pretty
piece of fculpture ; this artift ftands foremoft among
our fculptors. We add our voice to that of the public
in his praife.

There are likewife monumental thoughts, by
Flaxman and Banks, not without merit: but,
what we more particularly noticed, were Venus intro-
ducing Helen to Paris, by Spiller, and, Ixion by
Proctor. The fir ft (befidesits merit,) becaufe it was
the attempt for the prize-medal (gold) and our opi-
nion is, that in order to inform the public what rifing
abilities are coming forward, the prize performances
ihould regularly have places in the exhibition. This
piece loft the prize : if the lofer has fo much merit,
the winner might with the utmoft propriety have re-
quefted the public attention : or, if the connexions
of a victor, not his merit, were rumoured to have
gained him the prize, how could he better refute the
idea, than by exhibiting his performance ? The
lame remark, applies to the pictures; let the public
judge of the competitors, not only occasionally, but
regularly.

Mr. PROCTOR we underftand, wTas formerly
clerk to a merchant in the city, but being led by his-
genius to amufe himfelf with delign, has gradually
advanced his abilities to the production of a model,
which would not difgrace the beft of our fculptorSo
Let him have his ample fhare of applaufe,

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