The things we do!

"'Great Rooms. 33. 'Portrait of Cardinal Cospetto,' O'Gogstay, A.R.A.;
and 'Neighbourhood of Corpodibacco--Evening--a Contadina and a
Trasteverino dancing at the door of a Locanda to the music of a
Pifferaro.'--Since his visit to Italy Mr. O'Gogstay seems to have given
up the scenes of Irish humour with which he used to delight us; and the
romance, the poetry, the religion of 'Italia la bella' form the subjects
of his pencil. The scene near Corpodibacco (we know the spot well, and
have spent many a happy month in its romantic mountains) is most
characteristic. Cardinal Cospetto, we must say, is a most truculent
prelate, and not certainly an ornament to his church.
"'49, 210, 311. Smee, R.A.--Portraits which a Reynolds might be proud
of,--a Vandyke or Claude might not disown. 'Sir Brian Newcome, in the
costume of a Deputy-Lieutenant,' 'Major-General Sir Thomas de Boots,
K.C.B.,' painted for the 50th Dragoons, are triumphs, indeed, of this
noble painter. Why have we no picture of the Sovereign and her august
consort from Smee's brush? When Charles II.


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