“The Woman of Samaria” was exhibited at the Institute in 1868. The artist has here dealt with the subject in a novel manner, Pictures of Christ and the Woman of Samaria have been frequent enough, both by the old masters and by those of modern times; but invariably they represent Christ at Jacob’s Well, holding that wonderful dialogue with the woman that came to draw water, recorded in the fourth chapter of St. John’s gospel; in which He spoke to her of the “well of water springing up into everlasting life,” and revealed his knowledge of her history. But Mr. Tidey’s picture opens up another scene: the woman has left her water-pot by the well, and returned to the city to her friends with the invitation,-“Come, see a man zohich told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ” This is the point in the sacred narrative indicated in the composition. Laying her hand on the arm of one of the men of Sychar, she directs their attention emotionally to the spot just left, as she tells the surrounding group what she has seen and heard. Her story is received, by some with astonishment and incredulity; by others with undisguised anger; the latter feeling is specially noticeable in the face of the man standing at the woman’s side, and in that of the farthermost figure in the left handed group. Ye the sacred record informs us that, “they went out of the city, and came to him.”