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who turns terrified and suppliant looks towards the Queen,
whilst the latter who has sprung to her feet, seems, with
quivering frame, to defy the impending danger.
Elmore's picture, called The Tuikries, is a splendid compo-
sition. Marie-Antoinette, with her family, is surrounded with
a menacing and insulting populace ; a young girl, in the midst
of this tabid mob is contemplating with emotion the noble
face of the poor sovereign, whose noble attiude contrasts
with the vile faces of her assailers. .
His other sketch, On the Brink, is also very effective. A
woman seated under a window, through which is seen a
gambling room, lends a too willing ear to the.proposals of
the tempter who seeks to draw her into the abyss. The
opposition between the soft moon-light which sheds its rays
on the first plan and the lurid glare of the gamblers' scene in
the back ground is very well managed.
Calderon has two excellent pictures : The English Embassy
on the night of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and Her Most
High, Noble and Puissant Grace. In the formerj sundry
groups of trembling Protestants are anxiously watching the
progress of the butchery, through a large window which
forms the whole back-ground ; the latter represents an infant
duchess loaded with a heavy court costume, ending with
a majestic tail, and attended by courtiers bending in humble
obedience before her mighty littleness.
The parting of Lord and Lady Russell, by Cope, is well
drawn, but too highly coloured. The Lord's crimson face
buried under a greenish wig, is more ludicrous than affect-
ing. Leighton's Brides of Syracuse betray the opposite fault,
being chalky in the extreme. -
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who turns terrified and suppliant looks towards the Queen,
whilst the latter who has sprung to her feet, seems, with
quivering frame, to defy the impending danger.
Elmore's picture, called The Tuikries, is a splendid compo-
sition. Marie-Antoinette, with her family, is surrounded with
a menacing and insulting populace ; a young girl, in the midst
of this tabid mob is contemplating with emotion the noble
face of the poor sovereign, whose noble attiude contrasts
with the vile faces of her assailers. .
His other sketch, On the Brink, is also very effective. A
woman seated under a window, through which is seen a
gambling room, lends a too willing ear to the.proposals of
the tempter who seeks to draw her into the abyss. The
opposition between the soft moon-light which sheds its rays
on the first plan and the lurid glare of the gamblers' scene in
the back ground is very well managed.
Calderon has two excellent pictures : The English Embassy
on the night of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and Her Most
High, Noble and Puissant Grace. In the formerj sundry
groups of trembling Protestants are anxiously watching the
progress of the butchery, through a large window which
forms the whole back-ground ; the latter represents an infant
duchess loaded with a heavy court costume, ending with
a majestic tail, and attended by courtiers bending in humble
obedience before her mighty littleness.
The parting of Lord and Lady Russell, by Cope, is well
drawn, but too highly coloured. The Lord's crimson face
buried under a greenish wig, is more ludicrous than affect-
ing. Leighton's Brides of Syracuse betray the opposite fault,
being chalky in the extreme. -