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HE commercial enterprife of Mr. Alderman Boydell forms an epoch in the history of the Fine Arts, from which their permanent improvement and confequent influence on many articles that are either immediately or remotely connected with them, may very fairly be dated. His Letter to Sir J. W. Anderfon, relative to the lottery for the difpofal of the pictures, &c. gives fo plain and unvarnished a narrative of the caufes which have occafioned this most respectable houfe to make their appeal to the public; that though it is rather longer than our limits allow, we cannot refilt the temptation of tranfcribing the whole.

The various circumstances are fo explicitly detailed, that little can be added: but there are fome leading and collateral points

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which the worthy Alderman, when speak. ing in his own perfon, could not fo well_ expatiate upon, that yet ftrike every thinking mind. Previous to the Alderman's eftablishing a continental corre1pondence for the exportation of prints, immenfe fums were annually fent out of this country for the purchate of thofe that were engraved abroad. He employed and encouraged fuperior artifts, and by his industry and perfeverance turned the courfe of a great current of wealth which had formerly flowed from this country to the Continent, and to thofe nations from whom we had formerly purchafed prints we now fold them. His energies were fuccefsful-indeed such energies command fuccefs; but the growing produce he appears to have invariably ap propriated to the profecution of his favourite object, the encouragement and extenfion of the Fine Arts. By his engrav

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ing, at an immense expence, a yaft number of fine prints, and endeavouring to eftablish an English hiftorical fchool of painting, he has expended more than three hundred and fifty thouland pounds. The benefits that were thus obtained by the arts and artists must be obvious to every one; but the incalculable advantages that will accrue to numerous branches of bufinefs connected with them, and to the commerce of the country, though equally certain, are not at first fight quite fo ob'vious. They branch out into a number of particulars, and lead to confequences that give this highly refpectable character a right to be clafled among the most ufeful members of the community, and to the title of a benefactor to his country. We must poftpone a few thoughts on this fubject until the next Retrospect, by which time we may be enabled to lay fomething more of the plan, and correct any error that may poffibly be in the following ftatement. From all the information we have been able to obtain, we believe, that it is intended to draw the lottery in Guildhall; that there are fixty prizes confifting of capital pictures, drawings, and books of prints; that the capital prize, confifting of the whole of the pictures now exhibiting at the Shakespeare Gallery, and including the premises for an unexpired term of fixty-four years, has coft the pro*prietors upwards of thirty thousand pounds. It is intended to have 21,000 tickets, at three guineas each, and the holder of every unfuccefsful ticket will be entitled to one guinea's worth of prints, so that this will be literally a lottery without a blank.

For Sir W. Anderson.

"DEAR SIR, Cheaffide, Feb. 4, 1804. "The kindness with which you have undertaken to reprefent my cafe, calls upon me to lay open to you with the utmost candour the circumstances attending it, which I will now endeavour to do as briefly as poffible.

"It is above fixty years fince I began to study the art of engraving, in the courfe of which time, befides employing that long period of life in my profeffion, with an industry and affiduity that would be improper in me to describe, I have laid out with my brethren, in promoting the commerce of the Fine Arts in this country, above three hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

"When I first began bufinefs, the whole commerce of prints in this country confifted in importing foreign prints, principally from France, to fupply the cabinets of the curious in this kingdom. Impreffed with the idea that the genius of our own countrymen, if properly encouraged, was equal to that of foreigners, I fet about establing a School of

Engraving in England, with what fuccefs, the public are well acquainted. It is perhaps at prefent fufficient to fay, that the whole courfe of that commerce is changed; very few prints being now imported into this country, while the foreign market is principally fupplied with prints from England. "In effecting this favourite plan, I have not only spent a long life, but have employed near forty years of the labour of my nephew, Jofiah Boydell, who has been bred to the bufinefs, and whofe affiftance during that period has been greatly inftrumental in promoting a School of Engraving in this country. By the bleffing of Providence, these exertions have been very fuccefsful; not only in that refpect, but in a commercial point of view; for the large fums I regularly received Revolution, for impreffions taken from the from the Continent, previous to the French

raged me to attempt alfo an English School of Historical Painting.

numerous plates engraved in England, encou

"I had obferved with indignation, that the want of fuch a fchool had been long made a favourite topic of opprobrium against this country by foreign writers on national taste. No fubject therefore could be more appropriate for such a national attempt, than England's infpired poet and great painter of nature, Shakespeare; and I flatter myself the moft prejudiced foreigner myft allow, that world, that Englishmen want nothing but the the Shakespeare Gallery will convince the foftering hand of encouragement to bring forth their genius in this line of art. I might go further, and defy any of the Italian, Flewith, or French schools, to fhow in fo fhort a fpace of time, fuch an exertion as the Shakespeare Gallery and if they could have made fuch an exertion, the pictures would

have been marked with all that monotonous fameness which diftinguishes the different schools; whereas in the Shakespeare Gal lery, every artist partaking of the freedom of his country, and endowed with that originality of thinking to peculiar to its natives, has chofen his own road to what he conceived to be excellence, unfhackled by the flavish imitation and uniformity that pervade all the foreign schools.

"This gallery I once flattered myself with being able to have left to that generous public, who have for fo long a period encouraged my undertakings; but unfortunately for those connected with the Fine Arts, a Vandalift Revolution has arifen, which, in convulfing all Europe, has entirely extinguished, except in this happy ifland, all thofe who had the tate or the power to promote those arts; ́ while the tyrant that at prefent governs France, tells that believing and befotted na❤ tion, that, in the midst of all his robbery and rapine, he is a great patron and promoter of the Fine Arts; just as if thofe arts that hu manize and polish mankind, could be promoted by fuch means, and by fuch a man.

You will excufe, my dear Sir, I am fure,

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fome warmth in an old man on this fuhject, when I inform you, that this unhappy Revolution has cut up by the roots that revenue from the Continent, which enabled me to undertake fuch confiderable works in this country. At the fame time, as I am laying my cafe fairly before you, it should not be difguifed, that my natural enthufiafm for promoting the Fine Arts, (perhaps buoyed up by fuccefs) male me improvident For had I laid by but ten pounds out of every hundred my plites produced, I fhould not now have had occafion to trouble my friends or appeal to the public; but on the contrary, I fiew with impatience to employ fome new artist with the whole gains of my former undertakings. I fee too late my error, for I have thereby decreased my ready money, and increased my stock of copper-plates to fuch a fize, that all the printfellers in Europe could not purchase it, especially at thefe times, fo unfavourable to the Arts.

"Having thus candidly owned my error, I have but one word to fay in extenustion. My receipts from abroad had been fo large, and continued fo regular, that I at all times found them fully adequate to fupport my undertakings at home. I could not calculate on the prefent crifis, which has totally annihilated them. I certainly calculated on fome defalcation of thefe receipts by a French or Spanish war, or both; but with France or Spain I carried on but little commerce-Flanders, Holland, and Germany, who, no doubt, fupplied the rest of Europe, were the great marts; but alas! they are now no more. The convulfion that has disjointed and ruined the whole Continent, I did not foresee; I know no man that did. On that head, therefore, though it has nearly ruined me and mine, I can take but little blame to myself.

In this ftate of things, I throw myself with confidence upon that public, who have always been but too partial to my poor endeavours, for the difpofal of that which in happier days I flattered myself to have prefented to them.

"I know of no means by which that can be effected just now, but by a lottery; and if the Legislature will have the good nefs to grant a permiffion for that purpose, they will at least have the affurance of the even tenour of a long life, that it will be fairly and honourably conducted. The objects of it are my pictures, galleries, drawings, &c. which, unconnected with my copper-plates and trade, are much more than fufficient to pay, if properly difpofed of, all I owe in the world.

"I hope you, my dear Sir, and every honeft man, at any age, will feel for my anxiety to difcharge my debts; but at my advanced age of 85, I feel it becomes doubly defirable.

"I am, dear Sir, with great regard, your obedient, and obliged fervant,

"JOHN BOYDELL."

The Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 7. Hoppner, R. A. pinxt. Charles Turner fculpt.

An admirable portrait extremely well engraved in mezzotinto.

Lady Heathcote. J. Hoppner, R. A. pinxt. W. Ward fculpt.

the character of Hebe, but we do not In this portrait the lady is delineated in think that Mr. Hoppner has been fo fuccefsful as he ufually is, efpecially in characters that we expect to fee marked with tafte in their air and attitude, for the easy and elegant reprefentation of which he has long been defervedly admired. This figure not eminently graceful; Mr. Ward has engraved it in mezzotinto in a very good ftyle.

Pfyche, La Colombe Retrouvée. Sir William Beechy pinx. Caroline Watfon fculp.

Two very beautiful title prints. In the figure of Piyche, the arift, without any thing bordering upon that fervile fpi

rit of imitation which we have fometinies feen, appears to have caught a large portion of the fpirit of Sir Joshua Reynolds. It reminded us of the ftyle in which that matchlefs painter fometimes delineated his allegorical figures: yet, with the utmost respect for the talents and general accuracy of Sir William Beechy, we canmuch too infantine for the body. Both. not help thinking the head of this figure the prints are engraven with uncommon delicacy.

Four prints defigned as companions, viz. Rural Repofe. Wheatly del. N. Schiavonetti feulp.

Rural Benevolence. Zuccarelli del. J. Geremia Sculp

Maternal Lowe. H. Singleton del. S. Phillips fculp.

Maternal Inftruction, H. Singleton del. N. Schiavonetti fculp.

Thefe four fubjects may be put in the clafs of pretty decorative prints; and of fuch prints there are a numerous clafs of admirers. They are engraved in the dotted ftyle, in a manner fo fimilar to each, other, as to render them admirable companions.

The late Mrs. Pope, in the character of Juliet.

M. A. Shee, R. A pinx. W. Ward fculp.

A mot fafcinating and enchanting portrait of a beautiful woman; though it is nothing more than a head, and has little to do with the character of Juliet; but it is a very good portrait, and very finely engraved in mezzotinto.

Gulliver managing his Boat before the King and
Queen of Brobdignag in a Water-trough.
Plate II. Gilray del. et jeulp.

Mr. Gilray's former delineation of the
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