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As. the most successful exhibitor however, we retard Henry Schlesinger, a medallist of 1840. “ The Toilet,” and “ Tlie Parlour Maid,” are delightful pictures. “ The First-born” represents a young mother lying on a sofa, and playing with her babe—a subject familiar, and as interest Ing as familiar, in most families. “ The Footpath” is another exquisite painting. But the crowning work, and the masterpiece of the gallery, is “ Masters are Out.” A nigger footman, having enveloped his carcase in his master’s clothes, a court dress, by-the-bye, is gravely trying the effect upon a mirror, five of the female servants, so comely as to induce a belief that they were rather of master’s than mistress’s choice, are looking on, and indicating their opinions by their varied attitudes, varying from staid gravity to mirth ; here subdued, there full and free, and further on uproarious. The air abandon of the last indicated, the lady’s maid probably, is natural and easy, in the extreme, but not bordering on the indelicate. It is one of the finest pictures of the season.At the exhibition on Saturday, the visitors were numer-A larger number would have scarcely found comfort-o us.able accommodation. Very already marked “ sold.”many of the pictures areAn Unprofitable Guest.—Mr. Lukey, the proprietor of the Shakspere Hotel, is doomed to be unfortunate. This week an elderlv eenlleman. most renect-2A plt; Cent New*sr
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Evening Star
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, May 03, 1858
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