OTAGO FINE ARTS EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1827, 19 February 1869, Page 2

OTAGO FINE ARTS EXHIBITION.

[Concluded from oup laat.] On entering the firet Water-color 2to» (from the east end of the hall), attention wy well be given to "Deborah Sitting in «Faa;« ment," painted by Mr Warren, who li f-» President of the British-Institution of-Wm«J color painters. This wae a prize the London Art Union; and the esbitef is Mr Lewie, of Wanganui. Mr B. OKwa? contributed two fine works by Galfy,™ hang near the Deborah—one having a tfMtfo foreground, with Mount Cook in the dieted J the other, Lake Botoeiti, with ajsao?e»' ( view of Moent Cook. Mr Oli?63? toe M» sent a coast scene, South Dev#4 • l»»**nd]r» by Hart. On the same wall, tturt'to P, r f ! j on entering the room, bangs a very ' ( work by Major Yon Tempsky; the intaat:» which will be enhanced by the feet thsW brave soldier, very ahortly before be Mfight with the natives, cent the pfctnw w*J W. For, M.E.8., by whom it is Major Yon Tempeky has shown Iho *«•,*• Eangere, of which he wee in command, maw ing paefc General Chute and Dr Featlww[«., and there is a portrait of the arliet hwfflb■well as portraits of come noisd Maon*£ eluding the wife of him who wwfiwre and of « Bloody Mary." Mrs ..MJDett »«- eihibitor of two works—a line copy of «"J field's Fast Gastle, Berwickshire s in Westmoreland. A work by Scenery near the Peak, Derbyshire* 9W «• buted by Mr-W. C.Young. M*B^&ftja J several exhibits, including two P»»*»£!j Ferrier. An effective view of Sb ftg »* the Thames, by Paul Marcos, is a eontew-J - by Mr Oliver; and Mr Hodgkina hw e» J ? by' Salmon—Hartland Point, 'Soath and Portetnouth. ; Mr Carier, of ;£?«»$ i exhibits some elaboratly beaottful Iby himself, including plante, e^|" (t neet 9 ; pnd branches, covered with nw» g lichens, fhe're i ? a rarge View of wdU[jr;. # and ite Harbor, paintea by Barraua, »** • hibited by Mr 0. Turnbull; and «*^m riok a#nde ieveral fine bird ™W ot ?/?i£U> of London, including a majestic A second View of by W«* r ■, comes from Mr ifuetice Ward. I* J* "i* gretfced thet only three of Cbwahwe are in the Kxhibition. The xnojt View of the Harbor, from which is the property of Mr Justice a smaller one, Tβ Anau La&e, tf* Hodgkins; endthetbirdissm*^.v (£ | understand that Mr Chevalier that he had not on his hands any , 0 he could eend; and that, though wgj |r j obtain from their amier^ , §s »

««3£llm> fc&a. Mr A. Jackson exhibit two *rj°: by Gully, Mount Cook being introSrcbased in Italy, from the artist, who was KJStoe and working there. Mrs Brunton SibAreral workf by herself, Two of SJb are most clever copies fronvpaintings by « wM. and a third being a singularly fine fnd-ink copy of « The Palace of Caligula." * Ataroa. Mr George TarnbuU exhibits a "The Gab-lunzie Man," wto was a prize picture of the Glasgow Art TMon There are three beautiful worts by Sy twoof which, if aot the three.werem the Zealand Exhibition, 1865, and a renewed which «*T»*~*Zfl; rX «ho caw them there. Iney are—- xne &n Glacier," owned by Dr Hooka., ••SSunt'Cbok, from Okarita Lagoon," which iSSSfrf MrA - Eccles ' * n< v; La . ko Arthor," which belongs to Mr B. B. Martin. SfrWatkine.of Akaroa, sends a pencil drawing, Cooper, two heads of bullocks; and there is a second pencil drawing by the same ertifit. two cows ruminant, as to the ownership «f which we find we are in doubt. Two other SSiKrto by Knell, are here, Mr Hodgkins EL their contributor. Mies Each ael SolojooZot Dunedin, has sent a good and spirited Xsetio scene, painted by herself; and there STeoise very interesting paintinge J>y Mrs mLgTeen. Mr Justice Ward exhibits a S-wrine by General Gould; and there « one "The Hutt Biver Sd Tarawa Mountains." Two works by C. Marten** of Sydney —a scene in Brisbane, and Ser Queensland view—are contributed by U- £ Wentworth. A Cavalier at a Ferry, 2th fiorsee, is the subject of a bold painting JJJ Barraud, which ia exhibited by Mr Tohn Cargill- Mr A. McMaster owns t sepia drawing by McCulloch; and flkniain Hutchison is the possessor of hm laree Views of Dunedin and Port ChalJ«~ hv G O'Brien, which will no doubt SmSy admirers. Mr Fildes, of the Bank nfSew South Wales, bee sent a pen and ink drawiag, a copy of himself, which, like the ftS bj Mrs F. W. Brunton, already mentSnedf is wry beautifully exeouted. Jlha SSmybe-idof a torn of this city. Mr E. B. Cargill exhibits byTYates datedJLTOethe oldest painting of New Zealand SS which is to be found in the Exhibition The artist's title of the work is, " The Olfiiince Biver, from the Hill Waipapa, ehowfae tapianuka, the highest point of the Zaikora iiigefl. ,. An exploring vessel—bluffbowei. round-sided, and altogether heavylooiiDf, as exploring vessels used to be, and oerbppe ought to be—is being two te owwij-and on a point in the foreground, there are a couple of men, in the %te® pt the period," we presume. The tcenery Iβ bold and well drawn. Pesiiog into the adjoining room, the visitor tnttfina there the beautiful sketches by Mr W.Fok, They are arranged in order—New Tasmania, Victoria, Ceylon, Havannab, Brazil, North America, and the Itoly Land. In number, excellence, and interest, the collection- is such as has very rarely indeed been painted by one who is not a professional artist; and there can be no doubt as to the general verdict respecting the talue of Mr Fbx'e contribution to Otago's firet Fine Art Exhibition. Mr Fox has also twenty or thirty fine photographs, from Severn ruins, or still complete buildings of iieforical interests In the room, there are several boldly-colored paintings by Mies Taueer, of DeVbn, some of them having for their subjects bits of the coast, or inland nooks of county. ' liere, top, are ten or a 4o?en good works— completed p^ntings—by Mr Hodgfeiosi to«''subjects being found in the neighbourhoods of Dunedin, Akaroa, and WeiliDgtoh. Mr Hodgkins has also iti the Exhibition—but it was not hung when last we saw it—a fine painting of Akaroa Harbor, completed, and excellent in drawuig and general tone, - : • " ; ■" ' ' w''' As it is at the easterly end of the Hall, we will now briefly indicate the contents of the Photograph Boom. We think that nothing there will be of more general interest than a frame sent by Mr W. Melvish. It comprises 15 or 20 photographs, onfglass, of Dunedin, at it was in 1861, before Gabriel's Gully had been heard of—ac it was in 1862, when there VW that cutting" in Princes street wand so on, year by year, up to the last past aonih. The photographs are exquisitely sharp and dear; and, not even the great photographic panoramas, as we may call them, which Mr Meluish showed at the 180S Exhibition—and which, are now in the Athen^um—were nearly as interesting, as a concretion of the history of the growth of •Duaedin, as is this moderately sized frame «^ : gbotographs on glass. Messre Barton Brothers chow likenesses, plain and colored, from what may be called half-life size down to miniatures in lockets; and also fiae set of views of Dunedin and Fort Ohalmere, and the bush scenery between the 4w(L From the London Portrait .Booms, Prisces etreet, there are frames of excellent Hfeeaeeeev of various sizes j and Mr J. Tensfield jyaieJio. an exhibitor. Mr J. W. Allen exhibits & large and good view of Dunedin ; and Mr J. M'Gregor, amongst other things, haa seat a seri&3 of charming bite of bush fioenery, photographed ,'along or near the kanks of the Waikari stream, and in the neighbourhood of the Water Works Compmy'e reservoir. Mr D. L. Mundy, of Christehnrch, has sent a most interesting set of. large- views taken along the overland Kmte to the West Coast. One may stand before these views, and travel over that Btoet romantic road almost, so far as the pleasurable portion of such travel is concerned, (There is a number of large and exosUenfc viewa taken on the Thames Goldfialde, but they were only received on Kratiday afternoon, and we are not aware tb&t they had been hung yesterday. camera, aent by Burfcn Brothers; W 'well-stuffed birds (Auswk and New Zealand, chiefly), by Mr f»« Jeminge, of Dunedin, complete the con* f®te of this room, with* one exception. That i&IM Afchiteciural Drawings, wßica are wijj'reward a careful examinato the more easterly of the rooms '-■£&$!&. Sorth e;de of t&e haU, we it comfilled with Engraviogg and Etchings. 6 Monrad coHeotian is j bo aye those ■■■■JJJrt srtiet'e proofe, by Mottran, | works by Turner and liandseerj ere many other beautiful engravings. vf the contents of the other north room, we **%«e®ore &an that if anybody con?»BQfe that they are not worthy of being f*J&»d, became "They are only Chromoa great mistake wai be made,