leer, and Blanco, deserve particular attention. A degree of concomitant merit may be fairly assigned to Sepulveda and Sagan, as engravers in coins and medals. One individual, Cardano, has recently established a lithographical press; and in his engra ving appears to have exhibited seve ral correct copies of hydrographical

charts.

Schools of design are met with in all the principal cities, where patriotic societies have been organized. In Madrid there existed one attached to the Academy of Fine Arts, and known by the name of San Fernando. To the praise of extensive usefulness, this has no legitimate claim, being confined, at present, to the imitating of antique models with plaster, to copy ing models from nature, to preparing colours, and selecting such as the different subjects may require. There is much, however, to commend in the two establishments recently founded by the Academy, and superintended by its directors. These have been justly considered as vehicles of instruction to a number of young students, male and female, to whom ingenious and excellent lessons are de livered alternately, (by professors highly qualified for the task,) in design, in the elements of geometry as applied to design, in perspective and ornamental drawing.

To facilitate the study of painting, government has provided a museum near the promenade of Prado, open to the public once a-week. This valuable acquisition has already received 332 paintings by fifty-five Spanish masters of eminence and authority, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present time. It will soon possess a rich and original addition, from a recent order of the King, that all the Spanish originals in the royal palaces of Madrid, Aranjuez, Retiro, and some from royal country

houses, should be removed to the Royal Museum. The law which suppressed the convents, has appropriated to the same depot, a number of fine paintings, belonging to monks of the first class, Benedictines, Bernardines, Hieronymites, Chartreux, Basilians, Premonstratensians, and Trappists. Philip II. had compressed, within many of those convents, and especially in that of the Escurial, many paintings, affording the best models; and his successors built on his substratum, by accumulating, with due discrimination, all the best pieces of the ancient Italian, Flemish, and Spanish schools.

At the head of this museum appears M. Ensevi, painter in miniature to the King, and duly capable of being a guardian of the arts in this asylum. His mind has been expanded by ideas acquired (with his superior abilities) in tours through France, Italy, England, and other countries, where his capacity and industry fitted him for a thorough acquaintance with the ancient schools, and the distinctive characters of each master.

A descriptive catalogue has been printed at Madrid, of the paintings contained in this museum. A little time and experience will evince the efficiency of the plan, and Spain will possess such a property in the arts as could scarcely be expected in the present state of her public affairs.

Europe cannot shew, in any other public establishment, so remarkable a selection as has been already formed and incorporated in this new arrangement; forty-three by the celebrated Murillo, whose works are now so scarce; forty-four by Velasquez; forty-two by Melendez; twenty-eight by Ribera, surnamed L'Espagnoleto; fifteen by Johannes, and eight by Cano; with those of several other paint. ers of the old Spanish school.

Twenty-four modern paintings me.

rit the compliment paid to them, of being inserted here, and of being contemplated with a species of congenial veneration; they are by Bayen, Paret, Goya, Aparicio, Madrazo, Maella, Sanchez, and Montalvo.

The inventive talents of Spanish painters have been of less value, comparatively, from their being more especially occupied on subjects of religion; the museum possesses, however, more than a third unconnected with this subject; fourteen represent battles, fifteen history or fiction, twenty-eight views of towns, harbours, gardens, and other landscapes, thir

teen of flowers, eight of fruits, fortytwo of hotels and inns, fifty-two portraits of well-known characters, and twenty-one of imaginary persons, half of whom are of a grotesque descrip

tion.

The rapid and successful movements of this museum will doubtless become an object to a numerous class of artists and amateurs, in whose minds it will facilitate the formation of new ideas, and to whom it will prove a store-house, from which the imaginative faculty will draw its materials.

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