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IRISH ARTISTS.

DURING a month I lately remained in the Metropolis of Ireland, my attention was occasionally directed, by our friend Sketch, to the state of the Fine Arts. One of our first morning lounges was to the shop of Mr. Allen, in Dame-street, whose name has been associated for the last twenty years perhaps, and in the minds of two generations, with drawing-paper, prints, chalks, black lead pencils, and Indian rubber, and a swarm of little et-ceteras known only to the cunning artist or emulative amateur. Here you will almost always find a picture or drawing sent to be framed, or, peradventure, to be sold. Mr. Allen can also talk knowingly to you about the merits of the Dublin painters, give you their addresses, or shake his head in praise or blame on their claims to notice. Indeed, he is himself a liberal patron of more than one in the lower classes; constantly purchasing portfolios of pencil-drawings, flower-wreaths and baskets, red-chalk drawings of arms, legs, noses, and ears, and, now and then, batches of legitimate water-colour landscapes. An artist who once held a respectable rank in his profession, now chiefly subsists on Mr. Allen's" encouragement" in the latter-mentioned branch. This is certainly a man of talent ; I saw some of his early drawings, which, though slight, pleased me considerably; but it is melancholy to thumb over the heaps of things he now brings in, per week, to his "employer's" market. It is still more melancholy to observe him bring himself into the shop, with his little portfolio chucked under his arm. He happened to enter it while I was there. Rubbing his shoes on the mat with scrupulous anxiety, he advanced, radiant in smiles lit up by Mr. Allen's brief salutation, and then slowly and deferentially deposited his humble pack on the counter. "So, so―ay, ay-nearer the thing-better, much better than the last but, C, don't you think this foreground wants a wash of bistre ? and those hills a grayer tint ?"—said the sagacious mercantile connoisseur, his nether lip protruded in the very easiness of in-felt power. I deemed myself getting angry at this scene, but a hearty laugh came to my relief, and I hurried out of the shop with Sketch, agreeing to seek elsewhere the character and respectability of Irish Art.

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We turned towards the Dublin Society house, in Kildare-street, which at present may be called an epitome of our Royal Academy and British Museum for here, along with stuffed fishes, open-mouthed lions, and cases of fossils and butterflies, and all the other curiosities of a Museum, you are prepared to meet casts of the antique, drawingschools of four kinds, figure, landscape, modelling and architecture, and a life-academy for practising artists. Here, also, the students of the different schools annually exhibit drawings for premiums, and by the committee of Fine Arts of the Dublin Society their claims are judged and rewarded. You may ask how many eminent artists find place in this committee? I answer, No artist of any kind. Who compose it, then? Connoisseurs!

With malicious precision Sketch detailed to me, as he walked along, all the imposing professions and theoretic economy of this institution, and I approached its gates with no little awe and interest. The Society house is a princely structure, terminating a good street, across