| Description | Regina, we are indebted to the politeness of Sir J Leicester for a view of his Gallery of Picturea, which he has thrown open to the lovers of the arts and to artists, at his House in Hill Street, for every Monday during the present and ensuing month… We shall not be thought guilty of offering an undeserved compliment when we declare that to us the whole course adopted by Sir John Leicester in regard to the British school, appears to be not only the most liberal but the best calculated to accomplish the purpose intended, of any which has been, or is pursued by other of the distinguished patrons of art in the kingdom. Fax are we from questioning the great effects produced by the princely magnificence of such men as the Marquis of Stafford, may we will name our illustrious Prince Regent himself, but what we approve so highly in Sir John Leicester is the peculiarity with which he had devoted no mean feeling of taste, and no mean portion of a noble fortune, to the exclusive cultivationo f British talent and generous encouragement of native genius. |