terated; and at last, as nearly as possible at the expiration of the month, repeated his visit to Mr. Banks. Mr. Banks was better pleased with his second specimen. He now took him into his study, bade him look about him, and asked him what he thought of one thing and another. He encouraged him, told him to go on with his drawing, and said he might come again in a week. Under the eye of Mr. Banks, the boy's proficiency was visible, and the artist began to conceive a kindness for him."-Little did Mr. Banks think, when he was questioning this youth, that Nature had enriched him with some of her choicest gifts, and that the Royal Academy would in him, at this moment, have had to boast of one of its brightest members, in the name of Mulready.-Mr. Banks* died at his

* Shortly after Mr. Banks's death, the present Mr. Christie, while selling the contents of his studio, incurred the momentary displeasure of Flaxman, by the following observation, made when expatiating upon the fine form of the antique.

You see in these the beauties which our late artist has incorporated in his works." Flaxman hastily, and perhaps with more warmth than he was accustomed to exercise, said, in rather a high tone, "Mr. Banks wanted no assistance;" so highly were his talents appreciated by our late departed Phidias.

In this auction, the late Mr. Blundell, of Ince, bought a large fragment of an antique figure, supposed to have been

house, No. 5, Newman-street, and was buried at Paddington, February 8th, 1805, aged 67.

one of the Arundel Marbles, which was discovered in the following curious manner. When Sir William Chambers was extending the embankment of Somerset-place into the Thames, to dig a foundation for the Terrace of the present building of Somerset-place, the above fragment was dug up. After many conjectures, it was recollected that the Earl of Arundel, who had moved the fragments of his fine collection from his house in the Strand, over to a garden which he then had on the opposite shore, might have lost this in the attempt to convey it thither. As it was marble, it was sent to Mr. Banks by Sir William. Upon comparing this fragment with the etchings of several of the Arundelian fragments given in Nichols's History of Lambeth, it was found to corroborate in marble and style of sculpture. These gardens were afterwards held by Boydell Cuper, a gardener of the Earl's, and were for many years well-known as a place of public resort for music, dancing, &c. under the appellation of Cuper's Gardens; and occasionally, as they were frequented by several fine women, they were called " Cupid's Gardens." I walked over them, when they were occupied by Messrs. Beaufoy, by their Wine and Vinegar Works, and I then saw many of the old lamp-irons along the paling of the gardens. The road on the Surrey side of Waterloo-Bridge passes over the site of these gardens.

CARLINI.

AGOSTINO CARLINI, though an Italian who associated mostly with foreigners, as an early member of our Royal Academy, should not be forgotten in this work. He lived and died in the house, now No. 14, in Carlisle-street, Soho, at the corner of King's-square-court.

Carlini was a man of talent; he executed the colossal masks, representing the rivers Dee, Tyne, and Severn, three of the nine on the keystones of the Strand front of Somerset-place, and likewise the two centre statues against the same edifice. The statue of Doctor Ward,

who

* Joshua Ward, for whom Dr. Johnson had a most sovereign contempt, was originally a Friar, and not only maker of that popular nostrum usually called "Friar's Balsam," but also of the drops well known under his name. He lived in Pall Mall; gave advice to the poor, gratis, at Whitehall; and boldly and extensively styled himself, "The Restorer of Health, and Father to the Poor." He was large and cumberous, highly consequential, and that kind of person denominated by some people a comely man, but he had, unfortunately for his features, what is called a claret face; though that, like Bardolph's nose, was a perpetual advertisement to him; for, wherever he went, this mark of Fortune's frolic was noticed by the passengers, and drew upon him the blessing of every gindrinking, furmity woman, or shoe-black, who at that time stood at the corners of most of the streets in London. But notwithstanding this popularity, which he had gained by throwing

was commonly called a quack, and which was presented to the Society of Arts, is, though it possesses no small share of foreign affectation, a pretty fair specimen of his abilities; but perhaps the design for Beckford's cenotaph, of which there is a large bold engraving by his friend Bartolozzi, is the best of his works. Carlini was extremely intimate with Cipriani, to whom, according to the usual modern mode of slandering the Sculptors, it has been said, he was often indebted for his designs.

money to them from his splendid coach, to impede his progress when in great haste to visit a patient, he was often annoyed by the rude and sometimes pointedly witty remarks made upon his claret face; and Hogarth did not suffer him to pass unnoticed. His vanity induced him to have his portrait frequently painted by Bardwell, Loving, &c. ; but as these portrayings exhibited his peculiar stigma, he hit upon an expedient of handing himself down to posterity without it, by having his effigy carved in white marble. He therefore employed his old friend Carlini, who had frequently, in early days, assisted him in preparing his Balsam, to produce a statue of him, as large as life, in his usual dress and pompous wig; and in order to make this statue talked of, and seen at the Sculptor's studio, he proposed to allow Carlini two hundred guineas per annum, to enable him to work at it occasionally till it was finished ; and this sum the Artist continued annually to receive till his death. The statue was then sent to the Society of Arts, where it was fixed in their great room, in the presence of Barry's grand pictures, so immortalized by Doctor Johnson for their "grasp of mind;" though some of my readers will recollect, that the Doctor never professed any knowledge as to painting.

My father, who also made a model, and Carlini, were the unsuccessful candidates for Beckford's monument; and Moore, then living in Wells-street, Oxford-street, was employed to execute the cenotaph in Guildhall—a glaring specimen of marble spoiled; of which scandal said, the task was given to him because he was a native of Hanover. This report, however, when we consider its total want of plausibility, ought never again to be circulated; for is it likely that the City would have given the preference to a native of Hanover for the Sculptor, out of compliment to the King, when they were about to engrave upon its tablet the very speech which must have been most obnoxious to the Monarch ? *

Carlini also made an excellent model, about two feet in height, of William Duke of Cum

* J. F. Moore was the Sculptor who carved the figure of Mrs. Macauley, for the monument put up in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, by her doating admirer, Dr. Thomas Wilson; which, it is said, the same divine had pulled down when that lady offended him by marrying a brother of Graham, the Quack Doctor. I believe the Bishop insisted upon its removal, though some one ordered the figure to be given back to Moore, with full permission to do whatever he pleased with it.

The Doctor also employed Moore to execute a monument to the memory of his wife, leaving the dexter side of the tablet plain, for the insertion of his own death. It was put up in