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MR. MITTAG.-This gifted artist, now in our city, is probably not generally known as he should Do Few men of the present age have aoorvd more assiduou'y Tn endeavoring to procure change in the present style of painting than has this gentleman MT. Miag has imb;bed his inspiration at the shrine of the old masters-and whilst in Rome meditating on the chefs deuyres of their genus, he was struck with the tawdry style of colorng common amsng English and American painters. That distinctnesa oi outline and felike colorng peculiarly charac- terisiic of Rafaelle and Carlo Dulc, contrasts so strongly with the heavy animal painting so much in

 fashion now, to induce the subject of this notice

 to revive if possible taste for the Italian school

 Hence, his portraits are executed with Ife-like expression and exact truth, which, however much they may dsplease those who have vitiated taste, cannot fail to be commended by such as like to see

 'ihe mirror held up 10 naure." Added to his quail. fcation painter, Mir. M has aknowledpe of anat- omy and physiology. which united with the philospby of expression which he has studied for mauy year. renders hn entirely capable of conceiving the char acter ofhis sin1. ss