The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (2.1788)

to be fo few j it is the lefs pleafant when I am not em-
powered to hold them all forth as inftances of national
patronage j and it is ftill lefs fo, in that it is to ftand
on the other fide of an account ftated of the French
fchool, the fum total of which is fo large, and filled
with articles of fuch magnitude and worth. Let it
however fpealc for itfelf, and its diminutive amount,
anfwer thofe who are loudeft in their demands on genius,
but whofe attention to it has gone no farther than to
fupprefs by ftigmatieing it, and to deftroy, by neglec-
ting it.

M In the cathedral of Rochefter, Tlie Angels appearing
to the Jhepherds, an altar-piece, by Mr. Weft.

" In the church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, Devout
men taking up the body of Stephen, after he had been Jloned,
an altar-piece, by Mr. Weft; who may juftly claim
the merit of having prefentsd it to that church, as he
received for that picture but one hundred and fifty
guineas.

44 In the chapel of Trinity-college, Cambridge, St.
Michael and the Devil, an altar-piece, by Mr. Weft ;
prefented by the Right Reverend Dr. HinchlirTe, Lord
Bifhop of Peterborough.

" In Stationer's-hall, London, Alfred the great divid-
ing a loaf with a pilgrim, by Mr. Weft ; prefented by
Mr. Alderman Boydell.

" In the cathedral of Winchefter, the raifmg of
Lazarus, an altar-piece, by Mr. Weft.

** In the chapel of Clare-hall, Cambridge, The An-
nunciation, by Mr. Cipriani.

" In the great window of Salisbury cathedral, The
raifmg of the brazen ferpent in the ivildernefs, painted on

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