The Peruvians have great natural talents for painting and sculpture.  They generally produce striking likenesses, but being uninstructed in the principles of these arts, their pictures have no other merit.  There is, however, a female figure, done in 1711, by a native of Quito, which is considered as one of the finest paintings in a very good collection belonging to Mynheer Vandermarlin, of Brussels.

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ORATORIOS.

The first oratorio performed in London, was at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, in 1732.  On June 10, in the same year, the serenata of Acis and Galatea was performed at the Italian Opera House, in English, by Italian performers, with scenery representing a rural prospect, with rocks, groves, fountains, and grottoes; amongst which were disposed a chorus of nymphs and shepherds, with dresses and “every other decoration suited to the subject.”—­Companion to the Theatres.

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