CUPID AND PANTHER.

this country; the “ Christ-Engel ” having been purchased by Mr. I. K. Brunei , and the “ Cupid and Panther ”by Lord Charles Townsend.

Although the number and importance of the works produced by our artist would warrant the suppositionthat he had devoted to the cultivation of his art more years than ordinarily fall to mortal lot, he is in factstill young. This circumstance renders it the more sad that the state of his health is such as to fill hisfriends with the liveliest apprehensions, and he has consequently been strongly urged to seek its restorationby a residence in Italy . Should it be decreed that his days are no longer to be spent in the practice ofthat elevated art of which he is already so great an ornament, there will be a mournful interest in the factthat his latest productions were contributed to the Great Exhibition .