_A Colour-Grinder_, R. T. Bone, is a spirited and faithful imitation of nature. _A Study from Nature_, J. Harrison, is a well-painted head. At the same time, there is something about it very unpleasant to us. _Hebe_ and _Sunrise_, by H. Howard, R.A., were, we believe, in last year’s Exhibition at Somerset-house. There is a certain grace and elegance in both of them. The fantastic, playful lightness of the figures in the last is perhaps carried to a degree of affectation. The faces of the Pleiades are very pretty and very insipid. _Conrade and Gulnare_, H. Singleton. We could neither understand this picture nor the lines from Lord Byron’s _Corsair_, which are intended to explain the subject of it. _Brutus exhorting the Romans to revenge the Death of Lucretia._ Of this composition we find we have already said quite enough. _View of Arthur’s Seat near Edinburgh_, P. Nasmyth, is a very nicely painted landscape. We like all this gentleman’s landscapes, except _A View of Edinburgh_, which is just like a painting on a tea-board. _Breaking the Ice_, by James Burnett, is a very delightful picture. It has the effect of walking out in a fine winter’s morning. Many incidental associations are very happily introduced; the pigeons collected on the thatch of a shed, and the robin-redbreast perched in a window of an out house. The pigeons are, however, too small, and the colour on the breast of the robin is on fire. Perhaps these objections are too minute. The pigeon-house looks suspended in the air, and the sky and branches of the trees seen against it are painted with admirable brilliancy. _Peasants going to Market_, by the same artist, is of equal merit. The skirt of the drapery of the peasant girl looks as if the sun shone directly upon it. The docks in the foreground of the picture are very highly finished, and touched with great spirit, but we never saw this kind of plant of the lightish green colour, which is here given to it. _Milking_, by John Burnett, is a very brilliant little picture. The red dress of the girl at the milk-pail is as rich as possible. The trees at a little distance are too much in sharp points and touches. The cattle in the landscapes of both the painters of this name are too much in heavy masses, and form too violent a contrast to the lightness of the landscape about them. _The Watering Place_, P. H. Rogers, deserves considerable praise, both for the colouring and composition. _Banks of the Thames_, J. Wilson, is a very clever picture. The foreground and the distance are equally well painted; but they do not appear in keeping. The one is quite clear, and the other covered with haze.