Subjects painted by Fuseli for Boydell's "Shakspeare Gallery."--His assistance towards the splendid Edition of "Lavater's Physiognomy."--His picture for Macklin's "Poets' Gallery."--His contributions to the Analytical Review.--His critique on Cowper's Homer. In the year 1786, Mr. Alderman Boydell, at the suggestion of Mr. George Nicol, began to form his splendid collection of modern historical pictures, the subjects being from Shakspeare's plays, and which was called "The Shakspeare Gallery." This liberal and well-timed speculation gave great energy to this branch of the art, as well as employment to many of our best artists and engravers, and among the former, to Fuseli, who executed eight large and one small picture for the gallery. The following were the subjects: Prospero, Miranda, Caliban, and Ariel--from the Tempest. Titania in raptures with Bottom, who wears the ass's head, attendant fairies, &c. Titania awaking, discovers Oberon at her side; Puck is removing the ass's head from Bottom--Midsummer Night's Dream. Henry the Vth with the Conspirators--King Henry V. Lear dismissing Cordelia from his Court--King Lear. Ghost of Hamlet's Father--Hamlet. Falstaff and Doll--King Henry IV. 2d part. Macbeth meeting the Witches on the Heath--Macbeth. Robin Goodfellow--Midsummer Night's Dream.--This gallery gave the public an opportunity of judging of Fuseli's versatile powers. The stately majesty of the ghost of Hamlet's father, contrasted with the expressive energy of his son, and the sublimity brought about by the light, shadow, and general tone, strike the mind with awe. In the picture of Lear is admirably pourtrayed the stubborn rashness of the father, the filial piety of the discarded daughter, and the wicked determination of Regan and Goneril. The fairy scenes in the Midsummer Night's Dream amuse the fancy, and show the vast inventive powers of the painter: and Falstaff with Doll is exquisitely ludicrous. The example set by Boydell was a stimulus to other speculations of a similar nature, and within a few years appeared the Macklin and Woodmason galleries; and it may be said with great truth, that Fuseli's pictures were among the most striking, if not the best in either collection.